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2,000-lb Capacity. Level your vehicle when you're hauling a heavy load with these Ride Control air springs. The adjustable springs improve overall stability and ride quality, eliminate rear sag, and reduce strain on your factory suspension.
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Ride Control gives the suspension system on your light-to-medium-duty truck, van or SUV unrivaled support. With these air springs installed, you'll experience the same comfortable, smooth and safe ride that you're used to enjoying when you're not hauling. Plus, Ride Control reduces the strain that heavy loads can put on your vehicle, saving you money in potential repairs.
Everything on your vehicle suffers from the stress of hauling or towing heavy loads - your brakes, your tires and your handling ability. Even your headlight aim can be thrown off. Without some kind of reinforcement for your factory suspension system, you could be putting the life expectancy of your vehicle at risk. Air Lift's adjustable air spring kit, Ride Control, gives your suspension the extra support it needs when you are carrying heavy cargo. By providing equal load distribution, Ride Control lessens the stress that your truck has to endure.
Ride Control's air bags are adjustable from 5 to 100 psi, so you can get the perfect amount of support for any size load. And the springs can be inflated independently of one another for front-to-rear and side-to-side leveling. The system's also easy to install and even easier to maintain.
Ride Control comes with manual inflation valves that are typically mounted on the bumper but can be installed anywhere on your vehicle for easy access. For even more convenience and control, you can add a compressor and gauge system (sold separately), which will let you monitor and automatically inflate your air springs.
An exclusive alignment tool is included with your Ride Control kit. This tool allows you to install each air spring so that it is centered perfectly between your vehicle's leaf spring and frame. This helps to prevent damaged caused by the spring rubbing against underbed components, ensuring lasting suspension support.
Air Lift kits are designed to keep your vehicle at normal ride height. You can find the normal ride height of your vehicle by unloading it and measuring the distance between the bottom edge of your wheel well and the center of the hub. After you find and record this distance, you can regulate the amount of air that you put into your air springs to maintain normal ride height - even when you are hauling a heavy load. You will need to adjust the air pressure in your air bags according to the size of your load.
These adjustable air springs come with a lifetime warranty with no mileage restrictions. In addition, Air Lift is so sure that you will benefit from their air spring suspension system that they offer a 60-day satisfaction guarantee. Install and use Ride Control springs for 60 days, and if you are not satisfied at the end of this time, you can remove them from your vehicle and return them for a full product refund. Now that's confidence.
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2006 Chevrolet Colorado, we'll install the air lift, ride control air helper strings, Part Number AL59539. Our first step, we'll be assembling the air sleeve, an upper and lower brackets. We'll take the air sleeve, install the upper bracket on top, going over the nipple coming out of the air sleeve. We'll secure the upper brackets to the air sleeve with the plastic nut provided, then we'll take our air fitting, the 90 degree fitting and thread it on top of the air sleeve. We'll go ahead and secure it, and tighten it down with a wrench. Next, we'll go ahead and install the lower bracket.
To secure the lower bracket to the air sleeve, we will use the half inch taper headed bolt. Now, we have the brackets and air sleeve assembled. We'll move to the truck. Here, we'll need to remove the manufacturer's jounce bumper. There are two fasteners securing it to the frame, we'll then remove those now.
Now with the jounce bumper out of the way, we'll go ahead and discard the hardware as we will be infusing the fasteners provided with the install kit. Let's go ahead and set the air sleeve brackets in place, then we'll bring our jounce bumper back in and fit it up into position, securing it with a new bolt provided with the install kit. Now, we've got our bolt started, we'll go ahead and run them down, and then torque the specifications as indicated in the instructions. Next, we'll move to the lower bracket. Here, we'll need to make some room at the lower shock mouth to make the additional room necessary.
We're going to go ahead and remove the bolt and nuts securing the lower half of the shock to the shock mouth. Take the bolt as it's now going from inside to outside and turn it around so that it'll go thread from the outside to the inside. Quick tech tip: If you do you not allow the shock to fully extend, it makes it much easier to get the bolt back into position and re-securing it with the same nut. Now, with the bolt back in and our nut installed, we'll go ahead and tighten them down. Our lower bracket has a hook facing forward, it'll fit over the shackle mouth of the lead spring to axle.
Now to secure the lower bracket into position, we'll go ahead and take the u-bolt fitted over the top of the upper bracket and around the lead spring. Then we'll bring our u-bolt bracket into position and secure it with a flat washer and nile unlock nut, it would be two for each u-bolt. Now, we've got them in position finger tight, we'll go ahead and tighten them down. It's best to tighten them down evenly so that it stretches the u-bolt evenly. Now, that secures the air bag here on the driver's side, we'll go ahead and repeat the same process on the passenger side. Next, we'll move to installing the air line. For this application, we'll be mounting it in the rear bumper on either side of the license plate. I'll go ahead and take a couple of quick measurements and use my paint stick to make a mark so it's equal on each side, then we'll go ahead and use our drill bit to drill it our large enough for our schrader valve in to go through the hole. Now that our hole drilled out, we'll go ahead and find the halfway point of our air line, as each end is already pre-installed with the schrader valves. Once we find the halfway point, we'll go ahead and take our tubing cutter and cut it in half. The reason we use a tubing cutter is so that we don't crimp our lines as we cut it in half. Now, we have our line cut in half and our hole drilled out, we'll go ahead and install the schrader valve in into the bumper. To do this, we'll go ahead and thread on a nut and install the serrated washer. Then we'll bit it into the bumper and install our rubber washer, a flat washer and securing nut, and tighten it down. The runner line will use a pole wire or in this case, a piece of tubing to assist us in pulling it through the frame. Taking my pole wire, feeding it to an excess hole in the frame and out in the end, I can then detach the new air line with some black electrical tape and then pull it through the frame. Remember when running your line, you stay away from moving components such as the steering suspension or excessive heat such as exhaust that can pinch or damage the line. Now, we've come out of the frame pulling the excess line necessary and then route it down to the bag. As you can see, we still have some excess lines, so I'll go ahead and use my tubing cutter to cut off any excess, then installing it into the air bag, we'll simply go into the red nipple of the air fitting, push it firmly into position and then pull out locking it into place. Now, we'll go ahead and repeat the same process on the passenger's side. Now, with both air sleeves and air lines installed, we'll go ahead and air it up and check the leaks. As you can see, we don't have any leaks and this will complete the install of the Air Lift Ride Control Helper Springs Part Number AL59539 on our 2006 Chevrolet Colorado.
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (211 Customer Reviews)
2,000-lb Capacity. Level your vehicle when you're hauling a heavy load with these Ride Control air springs. The adjustable springs improve overall stability and ride quality, eliminate rear sag, and reduce strain on your factory suspension.
After owning a year, I really have only good things to say about the air bags. If I have a lot of weight in the truck bed or some weight on the hitch, just a few minutes airing up the bags and it's all good!
The Air Lift system fit perfectly and made a huge difference! Great product and I am most satisfied.
Thanks again!!
product was delivered very timely. easy to install. another great experience with etrailer
fast and easy install, they work great! the video sold me. thanks
Fast delivery
great company to work with, they sent me a new air bag when mine had a leak and the shipping was fast. the install was a little difficult, had to drill holes in the frame. i have the silverado 1500 classic 07 so most aftermarket parts need some modifications anyways. i’m now able to haul comfortably without “trailer squat”
The airbags are working great for me! They defiantly make the ride of the truck a lot smoother. However, I did have one bag pop on me due to having the psi at 80 and then driving up a very uneven driveway with some momentum.. I ordered a new one and replaced it no problem.
Product was as advertised, and the install went smoothly. Toyota Tacomas are infamous for sagging rear ends, and these air springs handle that well. For now I can only comment on installation, as I've yet to load the truck with a heavy trailer. All parts can be mounted comfortably by jacking up the rear axle and removing a wheel. I didn't have any alignment troubles, and the instructions were specific to these parts and my truck. Buyers should be aware that air springs require regular checks to make sure they are inflated to a minimum pressure. I can easily reach in and squeeze the spring to check inflation, and it's faster than pulling out a pressure gage.
Every peice was there, directions were easy to follow.I watched the installation video 2 times really helps when you use the manual. Just installed today haven't tested yet but it's not a wimpy kit fit my truck perfect aired up nice non drilling no surprises, very happy with the purchase.
The AirLift system we talked about a couple weeks ago was sent to my daughter, Kristi's house. I installed it yesterday. I'm on the road, which isn't the best place to do the installation. My father in law didn't have any socket wrenches so I started with a couple 9/16 open end wrenches. These don't work for everything. I went to the local hardware store and bought what I needed. The driver side went on much easier. The hardest bolt was the top one requiring the socket wrench to hold the nut inside the frame. I had to feel for the nut since it was hidden next to an existing frame bolt. I was able to simply jack the back of the truck up at the hitch to gain clearance. I didn't have to remove the wheels. The nylon lock nut was fun to tighten. AirLift should have supplied a simple wrench for this. I found a vice grip needle nose plier worked well enough.
Here are three photos. First is passenger side, second tries to show where top nut goes, third is drivers side. I have then filled to 28psi and will check them this morning.
Install these on my 2015 Chevy Colorado. I pull a fairly big travel trailer and although it's no problem pulling it I had noticed that over the last couple of years the rear of the truck was gradually sagging more. The AirLift fixed it right up.
The ride now inspires more confidence and I definitely have more control over the whole rig.
Installation was fairly easy. I'm pretty handy but quite green when it comes to vehicles so I would say it's accessible to anyone with a handy thumb. I even managed to install them without removing the wheels. It took a bit longer and required more up and down with the car jack but since I did it a couple of hours at a time over a couple of days it allowed me to still drive during the installation process.
I'm am a huge fan and would recommend it to anyone.
Install was simple. Took me 2 1/2 hours by myself, plus my buddy 1 hour to weld on a nice bracket for the air valves on the back bumper (see pics). Instructions were confusing and nomenclature did not match parts, but I eventually got it figured out. There are also two spots in the instructions that tell you not to tighten certain nuts down so that you can adjust the bags later, but it never tells you when or how to tighten them later.
I recommend you jack up the rear axle and remove the rear tires so you have plenty of room to move around and install this.
System looks really nice on the pickup, and you can hardly tell there's anything on there unless you are looking closely. Even while almost empty, the bags push the rear of the pickup up a little bit which looks cool. And it seems to ride smoother now too. I have not tried it with pulling cargo or a trailer yet, and will update this review if I don't notice anything good.
Overall the install went well. I had to cold bend the upper brackets to fit properly. The upper bracket has an oval cut out to receive the top of the airbag. A nylon nut and serrated washer is used to connect the airbag to the upper bracket. I didn't like the fact that that connection could slide back and forth in the oval. So I cut a piece of plate to fit in the oval and welded it. Then I set both upper and lower brackets in place figured out the layout and drilled around hole to receive the upper nipple of the airbag. Rock solid set up that way. The truck is in the process of receiving an aluminum flatbed.
Was a great product while it lasted however we only got about 2 months of use out of it before the airbags popped
I installed the airlift support this afternoon. I had removed Timbren
Shocks which are just hard rubber shocks that mount to the factory spring
bumper support. The airlift required drilling out the rivets and removing
this OEM support.
Here are pictures of the left and right units installed on my truck. I
already have an Air Lift pump and rear bags on the rear of my truck.
When I put my plow on then I will see how well these perform and any sag or
how much lift. I have a 7"-6" Western Pro Plow for my 1987 GMC V-2500 4x4.
As a note, I was missing hardware from that hardware package. I had to look
through my own stock in order to complete the install. If it is at all
possible, I would be most appreciative if you could get AirLift to provide a
hardware package that was complete.
I also install the mirrors on my GMC. I have my 102" wide 20 foot cargo
trailer connected to my truck and will be using that in a few days. I am
hoping they will give me a better rear vision of the sides of my trailer.
When I get it on the road, I will have a better idea on what to comment.
When I do, I will send pictures. I don't plan on keeping them on the truck
all the time, just when I used the cargo trailer.
Give etrailer a chance to price match their competitors. I called and within a few minutes Allison had my order entered. Parts shipped same day and price match credit card refund soon followed.
I installed these air lifts nearly a year ago and they have been a great addition to my 96 Ford Ranger. I haul firewood and also have a small pop-up camper, with these air lifts I feel significantly less body roll and less porpoising when my truck is loaded. They were reasonably easy to install and have been durable thus far.
I ran this Air Lifters a 2015 Chevy Colorado and loved them. That in particular I had a 2 inch leveler on the front and the Air Lift on the rear kept the truck at the right height when a load was being pulled. I also ran 15-20 pounds in them on that daily and the ride was noticeably better.
Now fast forward to present time I have a 2023 Chevy Colorado and just finished the install today. Easy installation and the same quality as the last set. There is no reason not to run these on a truck in my opinion. The overall ride improvement is noticeable.
I did have trouble finding someone to install the air helper springs. Once installed they did very well. In my situation, the springs on my truck were wore out. I have ordered new springs and plan on putting the air helper springs on with the new springs for help when pulling my camper. I do recommend this item, but remember, they are called "helper" for a reason and will not cure a deep seated spring problem!
I found needs to be extremely helpful. I have a 1997 Econoline 150 Ford van. It was a conversion van so lots of extra weight. The back leaf springs were obviously struggling as it rode low without a trailer or any significant load. After installing the air springs, and charging them 1/3 of capacity Or 35 PSI, the ride drastically improved. Shortly after installing them I pulled a 24 foot trailer with a medium load on it, and it drastically improved the ride compared to pulling a trailer previously. Highly recommended and cheaper than new high-quality leaf springs.
I installed these on my 2021 Tacoma. They lasted less than one month. In addition to the horrid ride at a very low pressure, they no longer held air once I really needed the lift. I found that both bags were torn. There was not enough room between the frame and top of the leaf springs to keep them from getting smashed when hitting bumps. Bummer!
Product arrived in just a couple of days and was very easy to install. Only took an hour. When I filled the system with air I found a leak on the bag itself. Called Rebecca at etrailer and she gave me the number to air lift and she would check with me in a couple of days. I called airlift and had a new bag in two days. Rebecca did email me and ask if everything was ok. Hooked the camper up and tried it out and man did it work great. This was a great buying experience and will soon purchase the on board air compressor from etrailer
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