Firestone Ride-Rite Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2016 GMC Sierra 2500- Video
Speaker 1: Today in our 2016 GMC Sierra 2500HD, we'll be having a look at and installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Extreme Duty Air Helper Springs, part number F2702 in conjunction with the Lift Spacers for Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs for vehicles with a two inch lift, part number F2366.Now here's what our airbags look like installed. These airbags will give us a low leveling capacity of up to 7,500 pounds. It will not increase our gross vehicle weight rating by 7,500 pounds, this will maintain our ride quality and ride height with 7,500 pounds of weight in the bed. You'll want to consult with your owners manual of your truck and see if the vehicle is capable of towing or hauling that much weight before you attempt to do so, you don't want to cause damage to your vehicle.These airbags support anywhere between 5 and 150 PSI of air pressure. Unlike a lot of other competitors airbags on the market these are actually designed to be able to have the rear axle fully suspended when the truck is raised in the air for service. Other airbags from different manufacturers sometimes require the axle to be supported and not have the full weight of it hanging down because it could damage the airbag itself. more
10/23/2017 12:23:06 PM
Air Lift LoadLifter Air Helper Springs Installation - 2016 GMC Sierra 2500- Video
Today on our 2016 GMC Sierra 2500, we'll be having a look at and installing the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Air Helper Springs with Internal Jounce Bumpers, part number AL88338. Now, the reason you want these is because when we have a heavy load in the back of our truck or we're towing a heavy trailer with a high tongue weight, it alters the characteristics of the handling of our truck. The back end will squat down on the ground, and the front end will rise, giving us poor braking, increased tire wear, decreased handling, and also changing our headlight angle. With these installed supplementing our vehicle's suspension, it'll give us the extra comfort that we need and the extra safety that we need in order to maintain factory ride conditions with up to 5,000 pounds of weight on the truck. Now, when operating these airbags, it's important to keep in mind that they have a range of air pressure, from 5 psi at the minimum, up to 100 psi. All right, the first thing we want to do before we do our install is get a couple measurements here and find out where our truck sits with factory ride height. A completely stock truck right now, we have no weight in the bed of the truck at all, so this will give us a good baseline measurement to compare what happens when our truck's loaded down. We're just going to measure through the center line of the wheel up to the top of our wheel arch here. more
2/17/2017 1:52:06 PM
Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2016 GMC Sierra 2500- Video
Today we're going to take a look at and also show you how to install the Firestone Ride Right Rear Axle Air Helper Springs with the Double Convoluted Design. The part number is F2528. Now before we begin the installation we're going to get measurements on the rear wheel well, also on that front wheel well, just to determine our target to get back to when we're done. Here in the back we've got about 43 1/4 and in the front it's about 39 1/2. Now you can see we've loaded up our water tank here. What we're doing with this is just simulating either pin weight or tongue weight here in the back of the truck. Now with the weight in it looks like the rear has come down about 2 inches, it's at 41 1/4 now. more
11/1/2016 1:37:19 PM
