Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Air Helper Springs with Internal Jounce Bumpers - Front Axle

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Hi there Road Warriors. Today, we're going to be taking a look at air lifts LoadLifter 5,000 Ultimate Air Helper Springs for the front axle.These ultimate series air helper springs are designed for your motor homes as well as large trucks. You want to make sure you use our fit guide to determine the appropriate set of airbags for your particular motor home or truck. And here you can see what they look like when they're installed.They are a replacement for your factory jounce bumper, but that's not a big deal that we're taking off that old jounce bumper for because inside this airbag is an internal jounce bumper. So you're still going to have that full max load suspension support of a jounce bumper, but you're also going to get dynamic support that's variable, depending upon the amount of air pressure you place in the bag.And this is extremely nice for you motor home owners out there that are looking to smooth out your ride and take some of that weight off your suspension. With airbags, you're able to do both of those things and you're able to adjust it to your particular needs, for your particular motor home and how you have it loaded up.

Because the higher the pressure you put in here, the more support you're going to get, but the higher you fill these bags up, the stiffer it is going to make your ride. So if you need that extra support to help out the suspension on your motor home, you can go ahead and air these up as heavily as you need to for that.But if you are just looking for some minor support to help ease the suspension on your motor home, but you still want to get the benefits of suspension enhancement, that's going to help you reduce your sway, you can put just some minor air in here, which is going to help with sway, and it can also help make your ride a little bit smoother, because you're going to get some dampening from the bag.And what all this really means for you as the driver is, you're going to experience a smoother ride, so you're going to have more comfort inside your motor home. It can help minimize sways. You air these up, so whenever you have anybody drive by, especially in those large semi-trucks with those heavy cross winds, you're not going to get as much sway, so you don't have to compensate as much when driving down the road.It also is going to smooth it out for those potholes and everything else and help dampen any of that. So it's also going to minimize how much you have to compensate inside your motor home.

All this is going to result in you having more energy when you reach your destination and it's also going to increase the safety factor of your motor home by minimizing that sway.So if you do have an evasive maneuver or emergency that you need to turn real fast out of the way, you're going to have less role than you did before, giving you more competence behind the wheel, so you and your family can get to your destination safe and sound. You can enjoy that additional energy you had because you weren't working so hard, so you can spend more time with your family.To help give you a better idea of how the motor home handles before and after our airbags are installed, we went ahead and drove it and took some footage of our test course without our airbags. And then, once we got them installed, we hit the test course once again, so we could feel all the improvements. And boy, it did feel quite a bit different once we got them installed.Before we install our components, we're going to go ahead and hit the test course and just get a baseline on how our motor home feels beforehand. We're going to start by going into our uneven bumps section and this is going to mimic going over potholes that you might hit, just hit on one side and that gets it swaying back and forth.

And this is one of the things I do expect us to see some improvements on once we get our components installed.And it is pretty sloppy when we hit that, we do get quite a bit of rocking going on inside here. So our components inside are definitely rattling around and we should expect to have quite a bit of minimization on that, once our components are installed. Next we're going into the even bump section, this is going to be the more porpoising up and down front to back. And this is going to be like going over a speed bump or pulling in and out of your driveway.It hits the bumps pretty good. It doesn't really feel like we've got a whole lot of cushion up there in the front, but it does not too bad on our porpoising.

It almost wants to rock back and forth more side to side. It seems like this motor home has a sway issues more than anything.Lastly, we're going to be going into our slalom section here, and this is going to mimic an invasive maneuver. So we're going to start getting there, going back and forth, like we we're having to whip around an object in the road and we're going to see how the motor home responds. Whether or not it feels like we have the confidence to be able to make those maneuvers, or if we would be like, we would have to back off because we just don't trust the suspension and handling of our motor home here. We're heading into the section now.She's definitely got some sway. I mean, when you really feel the G-forces, when you start to turn it. I don't even really want to go too crazy with this guy here, just because it really has a lot of rocking going on. Even when you just come to a stop, you can see it wants to bounce back and forth as it's trying to bring itself back straight again.Now with our airbags installed, we're going to head back out on the test course. We're heading into our uneven bumps section first and before we had a lot of sway back and forth. I already noticed there's already a quite a huge difference in the amount of sway. We hit the bumps and it's significantly softer. We hit it a little harder there and we do still have some sway, but there is definitely a noticeable improvement from before and after.Next, we're going to be heading into the even bump section, which is the forward and backward of our motor home and this is going to be similar to going over a speed bump. And when we hit the bump here, it does feel a little bit softer than it did before. It's not quite as abrupt when we hit it, but there's not a huge difference on our forward and backward movement there. It does seem like we don't have quite as much bouncing here in the front after we've got those installed.Last, we're going to be going into our slalom section here. And this is where I really expect to see quite a bit of improvements here, because before it really felt awfully soft, when we we're trying to whip it back and forth, it just was not very comfortable. I wouldn't want to be sitting in this driver's seat if we had somebody slam on their brakes in front of us and we needed to just get over, because we weren't going to be able to stop in time.So we're coming into that section now. It's quite a massive difference between the two, not nearly as much sway on the inside here throwing us around. It does still exist. There are still some of our items moving, but as far as the comfort that you would have driving this and the confidence and the maneuverability of your motor home. Big difference. Before it was getting a little sketchy going back and forth there, it was really starting to rock it.The airbag is going to be made of a two ply fabric reinforced rubber, so it's going to be nice, strong and durable and withstand up to road grimes, dirt and greases that are often found on road surfaces that get flung up on it. When you purchase your airbags, you'll get one for each side, as well as all the hardware necessary to get it installed.One of the cool things about this system also, is that you can route your lines independently, so you could air them up higher on one side than the other, to help compensate for uneven loads. Most of your motor homes, this isn't a big issue, but if you added maybe some extra furniture and things to one side and it might cause it to lean, you can help adjust for that a little bit there with our airbag.Now there are some similar options here to air bags, such as Sumo Springs or Timbrens suspension enhancement system. With the Sumo Springs, you're going to have a solid rubber unit, and those are going to be two separate pieces, the two solid pieces, and those are going to compress to provide support.The difference between a Sumo Spring and an airbag here though, is the amount of support you get from the Sumo Springs is going to be set, when you install them, that's how much support you get. Once you load it down more, they are going to provide that support, but you can't change how much you get with it. With the airbags here, we have complete control because we can increase or decrease the amount of air in the airbag.And with our Timbrens, those are going to be somewhat similar to our Sumo Springs. It is a rubber piece that goes in between our frame and our lee spring here, and it replaces your jounce bumper, except the Timbrens act more like the jounce bumper. There are much stiffer, harder rubber material that often isn't compressed at all or very much, when you're at your normal resting position.Those are really designed for extremely heavy loads, so if you've got your motor home loaded up with a bunch of more gear and equipment and you just leave it in there all the time, and that's how it is, Timbrens might be a good option to provide you with that support. But Timbrens often cause a much stiffer ride than what you'd have before.If you wanted something smoother then you would want to go with the Sumo Springs or with the airbags here, since we can choose how soft or stiff our ride is. So the airbags gives you the best of both worlds, with the SumoSprings or the Timbrens you can get either that out of our airbags here.The only drawback to the airbags is that there is some maintenance required. Over time, air pressure is going to change because as temperature increases, pressure is going to go up and its temperature decreases pressure is going to go down, so you do have to adjust these from time to time.If you want something that you don't ever have to worry about, then those Sumo Springs or Timbrens might be a better option for you. But if you're wanting the best adjustability and the most versatility on how you use your motor home, airbags is going to give you way more options on how you ride and feel in your motor home.Now, if you're really interested in airbags, you like all the benefits they offer, but you're not big on the maintenance part of it, one of the easy solutions for that is to get a compressor system. This way you don't have to constantly stop at gas stations or remember to check it before you leave home, with compressor systems, you can have them installed on your motor home, so they will constantly monitor your airbags and keep them topped up.If you're looking for additional support, there are also airlift airbags available for the rear of your truck or RV. I would also recommend upgrading the front and rear sway bars to the larger road master ones we have here @etrailer.com.Now let's talk to the rest of the team about this product.Hi there team. How is the going today We just got done putting some airbags on our motor home here. We did a video inaudible 00:10:39 to talk about, what they do, why the customer needs them. You guys got any additional thoughts or questions about them Yeah, man. I was just going to ask, I guess, the first and foremost thing was, why did the customer want to put air springs, instead of doing a Sumo Spring on the front of the motor home Okay. We kind of just covered that. Talked about that in the video. So our airbags here, they're going to be adjustable, so you can change the amount of pressure up or down. With the Sumo Springs, they're going to be at the set of what they do. They do compress to provide more support as they compress, but you can't change anything. What you get is what you get.These have internal jounce bumpers in them, so you can still get that with these. But as far as which ones I would recommend, it really comes down to the customer and their needs.So if this is somebody who doesn't want to ever have to inaudible 00:11:31 these things up or down, then I would recommend it for him, because there is temperature changes, pressure goes up and down, and that's going to change your air pressure. So inaudible 00:11:39 check these throughout the different parts of the year you use your motor home. Maybe in six or seven months or three or four months even, you're going to have to check those before you leave to make sure they are okay.Sumo Springs you can just hop in and go. Right. So it just comes down to that customer and how they're planning out on using it. I just wanted to get your opinion on what you think of those, Dave, as far as those internal jounce bumpers on the airlift go, because I've heard good things and I've heard bad things. I mean, it's cool that they're there. That's for sure. If you have a misfortunate event where there was something in the road and it popped up and it popped your air bag, you've got that support from that internal jounce bumper there because the suspension is going to want to slam down, if you've used the initial support. And with air bags, you're taking out that factory jounce bumper, so it's nice to still have that support in the emergency event that you need it. And did they get a compressor for these or not No. They didn't get a compressor. You did mention cost a little bit, how these we're cheaper than the other options. The compressor would be the kind of the thing that would maybe change that, because for some customers that don't want to maintain these, well they have the option to get a compressor and they don't have to worry about maintaining them. So the compressor could be a solution for the customer that's interested in airbags and all the versatility they offer, but don't want to ever have to adjust that pressure. Where did you guys install the valves for these, anyway Kind of on each side. These ones are dual path. This is how he requested it to be done. So he's got one just like this over on the other side. Okay, cool. He already had the holes marked out and everything where he wanted them. It sounds like he wanted . he did his research, I think. I think he knew what he wanted. I would guess we don't have any more questions. We're going to go ahead and wrap it up.And that completes our look at air lift LoadLifter Ultimate 5,000 Air Helper Springs for the front axle.