Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Air Helper Springs Installation - 2020 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hey everyone, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2020 GMC Sierra 3500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Air Lift Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. But before we get into that, let's pull into the garage. We'll take a minute, check these out, and make sure they're gonna be the right upgrade for ya. Here's how the airbags can look once you have 'em installed on your truck. And it's a really simple concept. more

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5/2/2024 2:51:59 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2024 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we have a 2024 GMC Sierra 2500 and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Airbags. These air helper springs are more commonly known as airbags are going to mount between the frame of your vehicle and the top of your axle. And what they're designed to do is they will help to support the rear end of your truck when hauling a heavy load in the bed or on the hitch. These air helper strings are going to have a load carrying capacity of 5,000 pounds and a PSI rating of a maximum of 100 PSI. Now these specific airbags are going to be able to, you can air them down to zero because they have an internal jounce bumper. more

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4/23/2024 1:51:36 PM

Air Lift Ride Control Air Helper Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hey, guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install our Air Lift Air Control Air Helper Springs on our 2018 GMC Sierra 1500. These air helper springs, or more commonly known as air bags, are going to mount to the side of your frame rail and in already pre-existing holes into the top of your leaf spring pack. And essentially what they're designed to do is to help limit the travel of your suspension. Whenever you're hooking up to a trailer or hauling a heavy load in the bed of your truck, the air bag's gonna take some of the weight so that your truck doesn't have to squat so bad and you can get the front end of your truck back on the ground, your headlights will be back, pointed at the road. A lot of times when people are towing super heavy things with 1500s, because they're built more for comfort than a 2500 or a 3500, they can tend to squat a lot in the back, and that's what these are designed to help with. more

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4/22/2024 1:07:39 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 7500 XL Air Helper Springs Installation - 2024 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install, the Air Lift Load Lifter 7,500 XL Air Helper Springs on our 2024 GMC Sierra 2,500. Adding air helper springs to the back of your vehicle is gonna allow you to help to bring up the back end of the vehicle whenever you're hauling a heavy load in the bed of your truck or behind it on the hitch. This is what our airbags are gonna look like when they're installed. You're gonna have a double convoluted design, which essentially means that there's gonna be two bubbles instead of one big one. And separating that in the middle is going to be a very strong steel band. more

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4/5/2024 12:21:16 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2024 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today we have a 2024 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4, and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Firestone Ride-Rite air helper springs. The idea behind air helper springs is so that you can help to support the rear end of your vehicle when you're towing a trailer, or if you're like my friend here, this is his personal vehicle that he uses for work. He owns a concrete company, and he's got a lot of concrete tools in this toolbox and in the bed of his truck. So his truck is already constantly sagging. He's actually about a half inch lower in the rear than he is in the front. more

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4/2/2024 1:54:49 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hey everyone, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2019 GMC Sierra 1500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 air helper springs for the rear axle. But before we do that, let's just take a minute, check these out, and make sure they're gonna work for you. Today we have a perfect example of a truck that could greatly benefit from a suspension enhancement like an airbag. With this setup, it's sagging really bad. We have a all-stainless steel dog kennel that sits on the bed, and the suspension could use some help, for sure. more

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3/10/2024 8:23:10 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer, and today, we're taking a look, and installing the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000, Ultimate Rear Helper springs with internal jounce bumper on a 2019 GMC Sierra 1500. Now adding airbags to any truck is gonna be great, especially if you have a bunch of different loads that you may tow, that maybe vary because you get the adjustability of having different air pressures for different loads, and it's just gonna take a lot of the strain off your factory suspension, it's gonna keep the vehicle from squatting, and overall, you're just gonna have a level ride which translates to better steering, better braking, and your headlights aren't gonna be shining up, there's a lot of different things, but overall, it's just gonna make it better for the driver. A lot of times, once you air those bags up with that heavy load, instead of the truck kind of sagging down and feeling like it's struggling, it's gonna give it that little extra supplemental help on that suspension to really feel like it's got a little bit more gusto to tow that trailer. Now these replace your factory jounce bumpers, which from the factory, they're fairly small, they bolt up here, and others actually has a lift plate that closes up the gap. But the problem is, is that suspension, it has to compress a decent amount before it bottoms out, and that means that truck is gonna sag all the way down until it bottoms, and then at this point, you're really not getting a whole lot of cushion, and that's where these come into play. You can adjust the pressure for, you know, the weight of the trailer, but also these have an internal jounce bumper, so it's gonna act as a bump stop as you're going down the road, so you still get that nice comfort of going down without a trailer loaded, but also it's heavy-duty enough to really supplement. more

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2/15/2024 1:49:39 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Extreme Duty Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2024 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hey, everybody. Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2024 GMC Sierra 3500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. But before we get into that, let's take a couple minutes, check these out and make sure they're gonna be right for you. One of the things that we like to do is some before and after testing. That way we can actually feel if the airbags are actually going to make an improvement. more

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9/11/2023 12:18:49 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2022 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey, everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2022 GMC Sierra 2500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs over the rear axle, but before we get into that, let's take a minute, check these out and make sure they're gonna work for you. So what an airbag is going to do is provide your truck with additional support here in the back. And whenever you're hooked up to a real heavy trailer or got a bunch of weight in the bed of your truck, what tends to happen is a truck squats down and kind of gives you a poor ride. It's not ideal to drive around like that. Your suspension's getting overworked, or your ride quality is poor and things of that nature, and so with air spring back here, it's gonna give you that extra support to get the truck level again, and in general, just improve your overall ride quality and help prolong the life of all your factory suspension components. more

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8/25/2023 9:04:24 AM

Air Lift Loadlifter on a 5000 Air Helper Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey guys, this is Jake here with etrailer.com. Today we have a 2018 GMC Sierra 2500 and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 airbags. A prime example of why you should get a set of airbags is right behind us. We have a truck here that tows a fifth-wheel camper and the pin weight on it is about 2,000 pounds. That is a lot of weight pushing down on the bed of this truck. So adding a set of airbags, they will sit in between the axle of your truck in the frame and they're designed to take some of the weight so that your vehicle suspension doesn't have to do all the work. more

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6/27/2023 10:06:18 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2023 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hey, guys. It's Jake here with etrailer. Today, we have a 2023 GMC 3500. And we're gonna be taking a look at, and I'm gonna show you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 air bags. Adding a set of air bags is gonna help you to haul loads much more comfortably. The suspensions on a lot of the trucks out there in the market tend to be a little bit more on the soft side, especially if you get a Denali like we have here. more

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6/7/2023 2:01:24 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Air Helper Springs Installation - 2022 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey guys, this is Jake here with etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna walk you through the installation of the Firestone RED Label Ride-Rite air helper springs on our 2022 GMC Sierra 2500. Now, a lot of people ask what is the main purpose of adding a set of airbags or air helper springs like we have here to your vehicle And essentially what they're designed to do is they're designed to help take some of the load. As you can see here, we have about between 15 and 1600 pounds in the bed of our truck. And before we had airbags, we had about 2 1/2 inches of squat. So these set of airbags is going to help to level up the truck or at least bring it back up closer to that factory ride height and eliminate some of that squat in the rear. more

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3/14/2023 11:10:01 AM

Timbren Rear Suspension Enhancement System Installation - 2020 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at Etrailer and today we're taking a look at installing the Timbren Severe Service Suspension Enhancement for your rear axle on a 2020 GMC Sierra 2500. Now this is how it's going to sit when it's installed and this one is a press in style. Now these just simply replace your factory jounce bumpers, and yours may be a bolt in application but all of these are gonna be no drill. They just simply take out your factory jounce and add this height and they're all gonna live about an inch above the rear axle. And what that means is you're gonna get this to initiate a lot quicker. So minimal amounts of sag is gonna push this against the rear axle and this is gonna start working, whereas before your factory jounce bumper clearly is quite a bit shorter and there's a lot of sagging that's gonna have to happen before it starts working. more

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1/23/2023 3:04:28 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2021 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2021 GMC Sierra 1500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Air Lift Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. But before we get into that, why don't we check them out and make sure they're gonna work for your truck. So we actually have our air helper springs installed on the rear axle already. And before we get too deep into everything, what I want to do is just run them through the course and maybe we can throw some weight back here, see how the truck performs, see how you're gonna live with it when you are towing or carrying weight around. And also, I think it'd be cool too to drive around without any weight or without a trailer, nothing along in lines 'cause you're not gonna be towing stuff 24/7. more

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8/26/2022 10:14:48 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Plus Air Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Hello, neighbors. It's Brad here at etrailer. And today, we're taking a look and installing the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Plus. These are gonna be your rear air bags with an internal jounce spring on a 2019 GMC Sierra. Now, this is what the bags look like when they're installed, and they live where the factory jounce bumpers used to be. And a lot of times with those air bags, when you put them in, you do lose that internal jounce bumper. more

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5/12/2022 8:54:03 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Air Helper Springs Installation - 2020 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hey everybody, how's it going Today, we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Air Helper Springs here on a 2020 GMC Sierra 3500. So you may be asking yourself, what are air helper springs, and why do you want them Because if you talk to your buddies about towing, chances are these have come up. And the reason for this is they're actually one of the most popular suspension enhancement options on the market and for good reason. So if you find yourself to be towing a trailer frequently or just simply hauling heavy loads, you probably experience rear end squat/sag. So this not only looks a little funky, but this rear end sag can actually have drastic effects on your vehicle. It could be something as minor as just the improper headlight aim, but all the way up to something as serious as improper braking or increased tire wear. more

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4/8/2022 9:03:01 AM

SumoSprings Solo Rear Helper Springs Installation - 2011 GMC Sierra- Video

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2011 GMC Sierra 1500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the SumoSprings suspension enhancement for the rear axle. But before we do that, why don't we check them out and make sure that these are gonna be something that'll work for your truck. So, before we get our suspension enhancement installed, what we'd like to do is just take a couple of measurements and do a couple of tests. That way, we can really, you know, have something to work with in terms of how well our suspension enhancement works. So, what we're gonna do now is just take a baseline measurement. more

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2/16/2022 12:44:30 PM

SumoSprings Solo Rear Helper Springs Installation - 2011 GMC Sierra SS95MR- Video

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2011 GMC Sierra 1500, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Sumo Springs suspension enhancement for the rear axle. But before we do that, why don't we check them out and make sure that these are gonna be something that'll work for your truck. So before we get our suspension enhancement installed, what we'd like to do is just take a couple of measurements and do a couple of tests. That way we can really have something to work with in terms of how well our suspension enhancement works. So what we're gonna do now is just take a baseline measurement. more

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2/15/2022 7:51:00 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2019 GMC Sierra 3500, we're going to be showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter 7500 XL air bags for the rear axle. But before we do that, why don't you check them out, and make sure that these are going to be right for you So, what we like to do to test the air bags is run them through a course and everything else. But before we do that, I like to just take some measurements. That way, we have some baseline numbers that we can work off of, just to help give us a little more information. So, right now the truck is unloaded, with the factory suspension. more

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10/15/2021 12:30:20 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 7500 XL Air Helper Springs Installation - 2021 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey, everybody. How's it going Today, we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter XL air helper springs here on our 2021 GMC Sierra 2500. So in order to see how much of a difference our airbags can make, we're gonna be taking some measurements here of the stock suspension unloaded so we can show you how much it changed once we put some weight in the bed and add our airbags. So keep in mind, these measurements we're just using as a reference point. You don't need to worry about your measurements matching these measurements or your measurements being different. But at the rear here, we're gonna measure from the ground to the top inside edge of the wheel well, the bottom edge rather. more

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9/17/2021 10:27:42 AM

Stability Plus Stabilizer Helper Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hey everyone. Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2019 GMC Sierra 2500, and I'm gonna be installing the Stability Plus Stabilizer. Now before we install our new stabilizers I want to go over a couple of things with you. Our normal ride height in the back was at 43 inches. In the front it was 39 and a half. more

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9/13/2021 12:43:21 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Rear Axle Air Helper Springs Installation - 2021 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hi there GMC owners, Tundra 2021 GMC Sierra 2,500. We're gonna be installing Firestone's ride-rite air helper springs. Before we put our airbags on we are gonna hit the test course just so we can get a baseline of how the truck feels. Gonna head and load it up and we're gonna hit our uneven bump section first here. This is gonna simulate a pothole. And when we hit the bump, we can feel it does got kind of a bump to it. more

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2/22/2021 8:14:07 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Connor: Hey, everybody. Connor here today at etrailer.com. We're going to be going over and showing you how to install the Firestone Red Label Air Helper Springs, here for our 2019 GMC Sierra 3500. Here's what our air springs are going to look like when they're installed on our truck. They're going to actually replace the factory jounce bumper here and they're going to bolt on using an upper bracket and a lower bracket. It is a completely bolt on installation, so we don't have to drill any holes or make any modifications to our truck to be able to install these.Adding airbags to your truck is going to be a great option for anyone who's looking to tow or haul frequently. more

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12/7/2020 1:13:16 PM

SumoSprings Rebel Rear Axle Helper Springs Installation - 2013 GMC Sierra- Video

Ryan: Hey everybody, my name's Ryan and here at Etrailer, we install, test, fit and review a lot of different parts. That way we could try to answer any questions those of you might have. And that's exactly what we're doing here today on our 2013 GMC Sierra 2500. We're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the SumoSprings Rebel Custom Helper Springs for the rear axle. So now that we've got the SumoSprings on, let's go ahead and run through our test course again and see how they really perform. So get straightened out here. more

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11/20/2020 10:17:51 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Plus Air Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Connor: Connor here today, at etrailer.com. We're going to be taking a look at the Air Lift Ultimate Plus 5000 air helper springs, here for our 2018 GMC Sierra 2500. So whether you're towing or hauling, these Air Lift airbags, here, are going to be an excellent addition to our truck. They're going to give us a peace of mind while we're driving out on the road. They're going to give us a lot more control. Overall, we're just going to feel much more comfortable towing or hauling heavy loads.So we're actually going to have quite a few different suspension enhancement options for our truck here. more

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10/23/2020 6:13:10 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Rear Axle Air Helper Springs Installation - 2020 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Connor here at etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at these Firestone Ride-Rite air helper springs for our 2020 GMC Sierra 2,500. Our Firestone air Springs here are going to be an excellent option for our Sierra. So what these are going to do is they're going to offer us additional support while we're towing or hauling a heavy load. Now we're going to need this extra support because when we are towing or hauling in a heavy load, the rear end of our truck is going to sag, which is then going to bring the front end up and that's going to cause all sorts of problems. So just as a bit of comparison here, we have the factory jounce bumper and her we have our Firestone Ride-Rite air helper springs installed. more

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3/17/2020 12:22:57 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter Air Helper Springs Installation - 2012 GMC Sierra- Video

Hi there Sierra owners. Today in your 2012 GMC Sierra 2500, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Air Lift's LoadLifter 5,000 air helper springs. Before you install your air bags, you want to make sure you take a measurement of your factory ride height, because this is ideally where we want our vehicle to be at all times. So here at the back we're at about 43 inches. We're then going to go check our front. And in the front we're measuring about 39-3/4 inches.We've now got about 1,000 pounds of water here that we're going to place in the back of our truck and we're going to see how our factory suspension handles it. more

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12/11/2019 7:17:05 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Ultimate Plus Air Springs Installation - 2019 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Hi there GMC owners. Today in your 2019 GMC Sierra 2500 we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install air lifts, Ride-Rite air helper springs. Before we install our air bags, we'll take some measurements of our stock ride height from the ground to the top of our fender well here we're measuring about 42 and a half inches. And then in the front of the vehicle we're measuring just under 40 inches, right at maybe 39 and three quarter, right around there. Now we're going to load our truck up with about a thousand pounds of weight. We're going to use our water tank here to simulate a heavy load that you might be putting in the back of your truck.We'll now recheck our measurements here in the back and we've dropped down about an inch and a half here in the back and here in the front when we recheck our vehicle's raised up about a quarter of an inch. more

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11/21/2019 1:27:42 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Ryan: How's it going Ryan here @etrailer.com. Today on our 2018 GMC Sierra 1500, we'll be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Air Lift Loadlifter 5000 Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. Now, before we put our airbags on, what we're going to do is take a measurement to find our factory ride height without any weight in the bed of the truck. Now, if we measure here at the front, from the ground to the edge of our wheel well, it's going to be about 40.5" and here at the back from the ground to the wheel well, we're going to be right at 41 inches. So I went ahead and put a significant amount of weight in the bed of our truck. And now we can take those same measurements. more

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9/4/2019 6:12:12 PM

Timbren Rear Suspension Enhancement System Installation - 2005 GMC Sierra- Video

Rob: Rob here at etrailer.com and today you will be taking a look at the Timbren rear suspension enhancement system on our 2005 GMC Sierra. Now, a big reason why you might want a suspension enhancement system on your Sierra is because if you tow a trailer a lot, you'll notice that the back-end start to squat down. Well, not only is it putting a lot of stress and strain on the rear suspension, but it's also affecting the front with the back-end going down the front-end is going to get stretched upward. Which means we're going to have less contact on our tires, which means our braking and steering is going to be diminished. Not to mention that our headlights are going to be pointing up. We'll potentially be blinding people when we're driving down the road. more

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8/29/2019 10:27:23 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2015 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Hi there Sierra owners. Today on your 2015 GMC Sierra 3500, we're going to be installing Firestone's Ride Rite red label extreme duty air helper springs for the rear axle.It's a double convoluted design, which has a high burst pressure than your traditional design. The airbags sit between the frame and your axle to help provide load leveling support. What's nice about airbags, it sets them apart from other suspension enhancements such as Timbren's is the fact that it's adjustable. You can increase or decrease the pressure depending on the load you have to get the most optimal ride and braking and handling performance.There is some maintenance required. Air pressure's will fluctuate with humidity and temperature. more

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5/20/2019 2:22:19 PM

TorkLift StableLoad Rear Suspension Upgrade Review and Installation - 2012 GMC Sierra- Video

Ryan: Hey, everybody, Ryan here at etrailer.com. Today on our 2012 GMC Sierra 2500, we're going to be taking a look at it, and showing you how to install the TorkLift StableLoader suspension upgrade.Now, one thing that separates this suspension enhancement from any of the others and probably one of my personal favorites, is how easy it is to disengage it when you're not using it. And because of that, you can still maintain your factory ride. To disengage it, just pull our pin. Pop that out. And you can simply move the wedges out of the way, and put your pin back in place. more

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5/15/2019 4:32:15 PM

Timbren Rear Suspension System Installation - 2015 GMC Sierra 3500- Video

Today in our 2015 GMC Sierra 3500, we're going to be installing Timbrens rear suspension enhancement system. And this is what our Timbrens look like when they're installed. They just replace our factory jounce bumper, but they're much more robust looking. You can see that they don't contact when the vehicle's unloaded, but it will contact right away once you put a little bit of load on it. The spring itself is designed to compress and the more it compresses, the stronger it gets providing more and more support. If you have a small load in the back to where it just barely touches, you're going to get some minimal support, it's just going to help smooth out your ride, reduce some sway and just be an overall more enjoyable experience. more

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5/15/2019 9:37:53 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2017 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Today on our 2017 GMC Sierra Denali 2500, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Firestone Ride Rite, Red Label Extreme Duty Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. This is what our air bags look like installed. These air bags can support up to 7500 pounds. Now keep in mind these aren't going to increase your truck's payload. It's still going to retain the factory amount of weight, however, what it's going to do is help your truck perform and ride much better with that amount of weight in the bed of your truck. It's always a good idea to check with your truck's owners manual to find its weight limits.Now what makes these different from some of the other styles on the market is that they're adjustable. more

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3/25/2019 9:02:12 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2017 GMC Sierra 2500- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 GMC Sierra 2500, we're going to be taking a look at, and showing you how to install the Firestone Ride Rite air helper springs for the rear axle. That's going to be part number F2596. So here's what our airbags are going to look like once we have them installed. Now these are going to give us load leveling support whenever we're hauling a heavy load or towing a heavy trailer. It's going to work in conjunction with our factory suspension, preventing that sagging that's typically found when we have a heavy load in the back, or hauling a heavy trailer.It's also going to make sure that our factory suspension is doing its job properly, and it's not taking on too much stress or unwanted strain. Our airbags can handle up to 5,000 pounds, but keep in mind these are just there for support. more

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11/30/2018 11:57:13 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 GMS Sierra 1500, we're going to be installing Firestone's Ride Right air helper springs, part number F2430.When your vehicle has got a heavy load in the back end, dragging it down, it causes the front end to lift up. This changes the geometry of your front suspension, which can cause excessive tire wear, more difficult time maintaining a straight line and also, it degrades your braking performance. These air helper springs are going to help maintain proper ride height under a heavy load. This going to reduce stress on your rear suspension, it's going to help improve your tire wear back to its factory, it's going to also help improve handling and braking performance.Now, if you're comparing these to other helper springs on our website, such as Sumo Spring's Jounce Bumpers, these are going to offer the most versatility sine they can be inflated between five and 100 PSI, they can adjust properly for each load. Whereas, the Sumo Springs are just going to be static and work with your load, but they're not going to be adjustable.We'll start our installation by doing a little bit of pre-assembly. We're going to take our air bag and our lower bracket. more

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10/26/2018 1:02:40 PM

Air Lift Ride Control Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2018 GMC Canyon- Video

Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 GMC Canyon, we're going to be installing Airlift's ride control air helper springs. Part number AL59533.This is what your airbags are going to look like when it's installed. As you can see it goes between your leaf spring and your frame to give that extra support. It's going to have independent lines for left and the right side, so you can help even out that load going down the road in case you have an uneven weight distribution.The operating range on these is between five and 100 psi. Five being an unloaded vehicle and 100 being the maximum load rating of 2,000 pounds. Now do remember that this extra carrying capacity does not increase the amount that your vehicle can haul. more

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6/13/2018 10:57:11 AM

Timbren Rear Suspension System Installation - 2016 GMC Sierra 1500- Video

Speaker 1: Today, on our 2016 GMC Sierra 1500, we're going be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Timbren Rear Suspension Enhancement System, part number TGMRCK15S. Whether you're hauling a heavy load or towing a heavy trailer, we've all experienced the vehicle sag in the back, which also causes the front end to rise up, which is never a good thing, because now we're relying on the rear axle to not only support the weight of our trailer, but also the weight of our vehicle. Our Timbren Suspension Enhancements is gonna provide us a lot more support and not allow the back end of the truck to come down as far, but still allow the suspension to move freely as it should.Now, our Timbren springs are going to replace our factory jounce stops and they're going to sit right above the axle. Now when it's unloaded it's not going to affect the ride at all, but they're going to become more stiffer as the more weight we apply, and they're going to provide us up to 8,600 pounds of load leveling support. I do want to mention these aren't going to increase your payload capacity. They're just there to help and support the weight of your trailer or the load in the back of your truck. more

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11/21/2017 11:28:03 AM

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

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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

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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

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11/1/2016 1:37:19 PM

Firestone Sport-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2007 GMC Sierra Classic- Video

Today on our 2007 GMC Sierra 1500, we'll be installing the Firestone Sport-rite Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. This is part number F2320. The benefits of having an airbag system installed on your vehicle is for when you have a heavy load in the bed, you can help level it out. If you're towing a heavy trailer that has a high towing weight, you can help level it out so you don't have that trailer sag going on in your back bumper, and if you have a heavy load that's off to one side of the bed, you can actually fill them individually because we have individual nozzles here, so you can fill the left side airbag independently from the right side airbag. We'll go ahead and demonstrate that right now. I'm going to fill the passenger side up. Now that we have our passenger side filled, we'll fill the driver side. more

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8/31/2016 11:06:18 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2008 GMC Sierra- Video

Today on our 2008 GMC Sierra 2500, we're going to be showing you how to install the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs using the double convoluted design for the rear axle. Part number is F-2-2-5-5-0. All right. Now, we'll head out to the test course. As you can see, before our suspension enhancement, we've got a lot of side to side or what they call body roll. This is causing the weight transfer to the outside of our corner, pulling up the inside of our vehicle. more

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5/16/2016 2:51:06 PM

Air Lift Air Helper Springs Installation - 2001 GMC Sierra- Video

Today on our 2001 GMC Sierra 2500 HD, we'll be installing the Air Lift Load Lifter 5000 Air Helper Springs, part number AL57275. Now here's what our vehicle looked like with the manufacturer's suspension and no weight added to the rear of the vehicle. We'll go ahead and take a measurement from the bottom of the wheel well down to the ground. As you can see, we're at 41 inches. Next we're going to go ahead and add approximately 2,700 pounds of weight to the rear of the vehicle. Now with our weight added, you can see it's lowered the rider height from 41 inches to 37 1/2. Next we're going to go ahead and run the vehicle through our test course. more

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2/9/2015 11:16:02 AM

Air Lift Ride Control Air Helper Springs Installation - 2010 GMC Canyon- Video

Today on this 2010 GMC Canyon, we are going to install part number AL59539. This is the Air Lift Ride Control Air Helper Springs. Let's go ahead and put some air to them and see how they look and work. First we are going to do is go ahead and put our springs together. First off we'll work with the bottom bracket, we'll put the spring on our bottom side and install the bottom bracket below it. There would be one single screw that holds it together and then we can go ahead and tighten it down. more

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1/20/2015 9:18:25 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2003 GMC Sierra- Video

Today on our 2003 GMC Sierra 2500HD Extended Cab, we're going to be installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs for the rear of the vehicle, part number F2250. Now with our stock suspension setup and no airbags installed, we're going to go ahead and take a couple measurements. We're going to measure from the ground to the bottom of the wheel well. Looks like we have 41 inches. With no weight in the bed of the truck, in the stock suspension we have 41 inches of height. Now, let's go ahead and install our water tank into the bed of the truck. Now that we've added our water tank to the bed of the vehicle, we've added a little over 1500 pounds to the bed of vehicle. Now, we are at about 38-1/2 inches from the ground to the bottom of the wheel well. more

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9/10/2014 1:19:13 PM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2011 GMC Sierra- Video

Today in this 2011 GMC Sierra Extended Cab were going to install part #F2528 from Firestone. The Firestone ride rite air helper springs. Before we install our air helper springs well take some measurements that will show how the springs help the suspension after theyre installed and weight is added. Well take the measurement from top of the wheel well to the ground first without any weight added. In this case it came out to about 42 inches. Next well add about 2,000 pounds in the bed and take our new measurement. more

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8/5/2014 10:57:34 AM

Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs Installation - 2013 GMC Sierra- Video

Today in our 2013 GMC Sierra, well be installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs, part number F2528. First, were going to go ahead and add approximately 2,000 pounds weight to the manufacturer suspension setup. Then well go ahead and go through our test scores. Now, with the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs installed and aired up, well go ahead and put in our 2,000 pounds, run it back through our test course. Now, well go ahead and begin our install. First up of our install is removing the old or manufacturers jounce bumpers. To get the jounce bumper out of the cup, well simply use a flat blade screwdriver and slide it in between the jounce bumper and cup and pry it out of its position. Well set the jounce bumper aside and will not reinstalled. Keep in mind, each process we do here on the driver side, were going to repeat identically on the passenger side with one exception well be adding a heat shield on the passenger side to prevent excessive heat from exhaust getting to the airbag. Now, were ready to go ahead and start assembling the airbag. more

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12/9/2013 2:07:43 PM

Air Lift LoadLifter Air Helper Springs Installation - 2013 GMC Sierra- Video

Today on our 2013 GMC Sierra, well be installing the Air Lift Vehicle Suspension System, part number AL57338. This will be the rear airbag setup for our vehicle. To begin our install, well first need to remove a few of the manufacturers components, starting with the jounce bumper. To remove the jounce bumper, well just take a flat blade screwdriver, get in between the jounce bumper cup and the jounce bumper itself, and pry it out of the cup. Next, on both sides, well remove the bolt that secures the rear brake line to the back of the jounce bump stop. Also here on the drivers side, well need to remove the bolt and bracket that secures the parking brake cable. Well remove the bolt from the frame and then remove the bracket off the cable, and we will relocate it once we complete installing the airbag. more

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9/30/2013 6:14:27 AM

Air Lift LoadLifter Air Helper Springs Installation - 2011 GMC Sierra- Video

Today on this 2011 GMC Sierra, we're going to install part number AL57338 from Air Lift. First thing we're going to do is lift the vehicle up so that we can take the load up some suspension to give us more working room, then we'll go ahead and remove the jounce bumpers from the very bottom. All we have to do is just pry them out. Next, we'll go ahead and remove the bracket for the brake lines that are located on the axle. At the end of the install, this bracket will be reinstalled. Also, there's a bolt in front of the axle for parking brake. more

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10/19/2012 3:21:15 AM

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