Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle
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2011 Chevrolet Silverado
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2011 Chevrolet Silverado - Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle
- Air Springs
- Rear Axle Suspension Enhancement
- Heavy Duty
- Air Lift
5,000-lb Capacity. Designed to upgrade your rear suspension, LoadLifter 5000 air springs provide high-quality, full-time load support. They level your Chevrolet Silverado, improving braking and ride comfort and reducing the strain on your factory suspension.
Features:
- Provides your vehicle with up to 5,000 lbs of load-leveling support, reducing strain on your rear suspension and improving both safety and ride quality
- Keeps your vehicle level when you are hauling a heavy load
- Improves steering and braking performance
- Helps to maintain safe headlight aim
- Keeps your tires from wearing unevenly
- Lets you manually adjust air pressure to get the even load distribution and support that you need
- Level your vehicle front to rear
- Inflate each spring independently for side-to-side leveling of off-center loads
- Reduces the strain on your OEM suspension caused by extremely heavy loads
- Improves overall stability and ride quality
- Diminishes sway and absorbs road shock for a smooth ride
- Comes with Air Lift's exclusive upper and lower roll plates
- Increases the load capacity of the air springs
- Protects springs from damage, extending the life of your air spring suspension
- Constructed of 2-ply, fabric-reinforced rubber
- Endcaps are made of high-strength Zytel nylon, which is lighter, stronger, and more corrosion resistant than steel
- Mounting brackets and hardware are included for installation
- Manual inflation valves and air lines are included
- Manual valves are typically mounted on bumper for easy access
- Compressor system with in-cab gauges (sold separately) can be added to monitor and automatically adjust air pressure
- Made in USA
Specs:
- Load-leveling capacity: up to 5,000 lbs
- LoadLifter 5000 springs will not increase your vehicle's weight-carrying capacity. Do not exceed the manufacturer's recommended weight limit.
- Adjustable air pressure: 5 psi - 100 psi
- Lifetime warranty
- 60-Day satisfaction guarantee
Air Lift's LoadLifter 5000 springs provide full-time, first-class support for your truck. With this kit, you get a safer ride and simultaneously protect your vehicle from the strain that comes with constantly hauling heavy loads.
Carrying heavy cargo in your truck bed or trailer puts tremendous stress on your vehicle. Your brakes erode faster, your tires wear unevenly, and handling suffers severely. When towing, you might also experience excessive sway, bottoming out, and even improper and unsafe headlight aim. Fortunately, there is a solution to these problems. By pairing your existing suspension with the LoadLifter 5000, you can seriously beef up your suspension, ensure equal load distribution, and give your vehicle the support it desperately needs. Air Lift's LoadLifter 5000 provides up to 5,000 pounds of load-leveling capacity and distributes the weight of your payload to all four wheels. As a result, the stress on your OEM suspension is significantly reduced.
LoadLifter's air bags are adjustable from 5 to 100 psi for precise support, and they can be inflated independently of one another for front-to-rear and side-to-side leveling. They are made of high-quality, two-ply, fabric-reinforced rubber. Most air bags lose air at the ends, where the bag is enclosed with a steel cap, because the steel can rust and corrode over time, creating small holes. The endcaps on Air Lift air bags are fashioned from corrosion-proof Zytel nylon, a material that is both stronger and lighter than steel, ensuring that the air bags won't lose air. Also, LoadLifter 5000 comes with Air Lift's exclusive roll plates, which both protect your air springs and beef up the load capacity of the springs.
This system installs with the included brackets and hardware. Just mount the springs, inflate them, and ride. To inflate the LoadLifter springs, you just have to pump air in through the inflation valves. A line kit is included with the springs so that you can install the valves (one for each spring) in an easily accessible area - typically they are installed on the bumper. If you want to make the springs even easier to use, you can get a compressor and gauge system (sold separately).
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.
Along with a lifetime warranty that has no mileage restrictions, Air Lift offers a 60-day satisfaction guarantee. Just install and use LoadLifter 5000 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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Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle - AL57204
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (1009 Customer Reviews)
5,000-lb Capacity. Designed to upgrade your rear suspension, LoadLifter 5000 air springs provide high-quality, full-time load support. They level your vehicle, improving braking and ride comfort and reducing the strain on your factory suspension.by: Bryan T from Alabama09/25/2022
Air Lift Loadmaster kit was fairly easy to install and definitely made a difference! It did take roughly 4-5 hours by myself but that includes prep, ABS and emergency brake relocation, Schrader valve installation and leak check. My only advice would be to give tech tips like a 10mm deepwell socket to remove the jounce bumper on late model Chevrolets/GMC's. I spent 30 minutes trying to figure that one out alone! So far I'm really impressed with the outcome! Thanks!
by: Matt F10/30/2019
They work great, both bags are on the same fill hose thats routed through my license plate.
by: Eugene05/05/2022
Nissan Leaf
I purchased the air helper spring to assist with the weight distribution hitch for my travel trailer. I have some sag in the rear suspension on my 1/2 ton PU and was hoping to level out my truck with the air springs. As I aired up the spring the rear of my truck raised up as well as the front. They did not help the rear suspension sag on my truck, only give some assistance to the rear leaf springs, small benefit.
Eugene
5/6/2023
Its been a year since my purchase and installation, and everything is still working flawlessly...
by: Jonathan 12/06/2023
very good product. I have had it for a year and works really well. etrailer folks were super helpful.
by: Jack04/22/2024
The hardware could be better. Seems like a lot of room for error. I’m not sure if damage is going to happen the first time someone puts it on a lift and stretches the bags.
by: Jonathan 04/03/2024
2008 GMC Sierra
Showed up quickly and the install went smoothly with great directions. Just what my truck needed!
by: Conrad05/29/2019
Worked perfect. The only complaint I would have is, I never received the little wire to thread the bolt through. A little duct tape on a piece of wire did the same thing. Another issue was on the jounce bumper - the framework of it, I had to grind a little of it away for the air fitting to cleanly swivel. If I did not, the air swivel was "a little snug". It didn't take much either to fix it. Total install time, doing it by myself around 5 hours. By the picture, you can see where I ground it away. Again - did not have to grind that much, but wanted to be sure.
by: Jon 04/05/2023
Harley Davidson
Great product, easy instal, does what advertised for. I haul a boat on weekends. I also have a motorcycle loader in the back of my pickup that i haul my Harley when we go on longer trips. Great product.
by: David 01/10/2023
2015 GMC Sierra
This easily installed on my 2015 GMC Sierra about two, maybe three hours including jacking up and removing from the jack stands.
Purchased this product because I purchased a slide-in camper and wanted the additional support/suspension.
Works exactly as described, cannot find any complaints.
by: Jay 02/26/2020
The lift works great. The only reason it doesn’t get five stars is because i had to do some modifications to get it to fit the truck due to the gooseneck ball in the bed but other than that it does the job as advertised
by: Robert08/30/2020
Delivery was fast and insulation was easy.
Fit in place no problems, it’s close but clears everything, so far so good
by: William12/09/2018
Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Installed this kit a month ago and used it three times pulling my travel trailer. Works as described and has performed as I expected it to. I have a GMC 1500 and no matter if I have my travel trailer with a 600lb tongue weight or 6'x10' single axle trailer with a 160lb tongue weight, with load of course, my truck would squat in the back.
I already added a sway control/weight distribution system and now wanted to get my truck in the right configuration while pulling. For safety and performance.
After reading a lot of reviews I chose this kit.
This kit was easy to install but did take 3 or 4 hours. I wasn't in a rush and wanted to make sure I followed everything in the instructions and not miss anything. I didn't want to rush through it to miss a critical step and then lose brake fluid due to a hole in a brake line. Mainly didn't want to break anything important nor did I want to puncture the air lifts or the poly lines.
Kit went on as expected and fit perfectly. The instructions included pictures and examples to follow that illustrate how everything fits and where everything should be routed. I would definitely buy again.
by: Ron 06/12/2023
They work great with my camper ride exc ellent
by: Tyler 11/23/2022
2017 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Took about 2.5 hours to install pretty easy with a basic socket set. I think these will really help when i have my truck bed camper installed.
by: Joseph04/23/2019
Great job etrailer! Your online ordering is simple, easy, and the products actually fit, unlike other retailers!
Joseph D.
4/24/2020
It’s been a year and 09 Silverado has hauled numerous loads of firewood and my 32ft camper! . Now I’m doing a complete restoration on a 67 Shasta camper with the help of etrailer! I won’t order anywhere else!!
by: Larry04/20/2023
easy install performs better than expec ted
by: Norman 05/19/2023
2016 GMC Sierra 1500
Great product and super customer service. Thank you!
by: R. Roberts09/12/2022
We noticed a big difference in towing stability. I installed them myself. It took longer than expected but I took my time. We're bumper pulling 9,000 lb +-Imagine 2970 with a 2018 chevy silverado z71.
by: Andrew07/19/2019
Product was shipped and delivered as promise. The installation was simple, was completed start to finish in about 2.5 hours start to finish. I highly recommend this product to everyone who wants to have a smooth, and safe ride when hauling or towing. We wil lnn be using these to help with the handling and safety when towing our travel trailer. Thank you again!!!
by: Joe D08/02/2017
2013 ChevroletSilverado
Instructions were spot on, took about 4 hours to install (without a lift) including the airbags. Have yet to tow with it but the system seems to work very well.
by: William01/26/2019
levels my truck out with my trailer hooked up , what more can you ask for .
by: Richard05/30/2022
2011 GMC Sierra
Great campy to work with have bought a few things from them over the years.
Richard
10/1/2022
Product is working great
by: Shawn02/13/2019
Great product. Very easy to install. The directions are clear and easy to follow.
by: Mark 01/07/2020
2018 GMC Sierra 1500
I purchased this to make it more manageable towing my 31' travel trailer. It would be an understatement to say that this made all the difference. Truly a night and day difference!
by: Ken 08/18/2021
directions were clear and easy to follow.installed in my driveway by myself in about 2 hours.
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Matt F.
10/31/2020
The air ride suspension has saved my leaf springs by supporting the constant weight of the tools stored in the bed. Great product and is very easy to install.