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Code: F2525
Retail:$481.62
Price:$366.45
Shipping Weight: 40 pounds
Shipping SpecialFor safety and stability, air springs are the perfect partner for your rear suspension when you are hauling heavy loads. Springs reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load sizes for a consistently smooth ride.
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Firestone Ride-Rite springs are designed to increase safety and reduce the strain on your vehicle when you are hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer. The springs partner with your existing rear suspension system to help keep your vehicle level, maintain even load distribution and increase stability. Hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer can make the rear of your vehicle sag and the front end rise. This puts more strain on your rear axle and reduces contact between your front tires and the road, causing problems with braking, steering control and traction. By adding air springs to your rear suspension, you can help to level your vehicle and improve braking and handling. The air springs also help to level your headlight beams and reduce wear on your tires.
Adjustable Air Pressure
The air pressure in your Ride-Rite springs can be adjusted manually, side to side, to compensate for off-center loads. A centered load improves the stability of your vehicle by reducing body roll. The air springs will also help to absorb road shock and to soften contact between your axle and frame. This prevents bottoming out, thus improving ride comfort. Route the air line tubing for the springs to your vehicle's bumper to provide easy access to the manual inflation valves.
Air Spring Construction
Firestone's double-convoluted Ride-Rite air springs are designed to give you maximum load support and enhance the performance and ride comfort of your vehicle. The rubber springs provide cushioning between your suspension components and operate at up to 100 psi. The springs have four layers of reinforced rubber to ensure durability and enhance load support. A braided wire girdle creates the double-convoluted shape of each air spring, increasing the burst pressure of the spring. The rubber springs are attached to corrosion-resistant metal end plates with a time-proven, rolled crimp seal that keeps the bags securely anchored.
Air Spring Installation
Each Ride-Rite kit includes custom-fit brackets that connect to your axle and frame. The brackets provide the mounting points for the air springs. Drilling may be required for some applications.
Video of Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs - Double Convoluted - Rear Axle
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer
installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on or 2011 Ford F150, we'll be installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs, part number F2525. First, we've gone ahead and raised the vehicle and removed the rear wheels. Now, we're ready to go ahead and remove the rear bump stop. Each process we do here on the driver's side, will get repeated identically on the passenger's side. Now, with our John's stop removed, we can go ahead and take one of the upper brackets and attach it to one of our airbags using the 3/8 nuts provided. Now with our lower bracket attached, we'll install the fastener finger tight.
Now, we're going to go back to the upper bracket and attach the second piece to it, before we install our airbag assembly ion to the vehicle. We'll be using our 2-inch hex bolts, and our 3/8 flange nuts to secure the second piece of our bracket to our upper bracket we've already attached to our airbag. Now, with those tightened down, we're ready to go and set the assembly in on top of the leaf spring. To secure our assembly to the frame, we'll first use our bolt that we removed from the John's bumper originally. Now we'll use our 2-inch hex bolt and bolt plates fed to the frame.
Quick tech tip: I recommend bending the handles on the bolt plate, as it will make it easier to install the bolt to the frame. Now, with both of those in place, we can now go ahead and install the bail clamps. The bail clamps will secure the lower bracket to the leaf spring pack. We'll use the bail clamps with the 3/8 flange nuts to secure the lower bracket. Quick tech tip: Before you tighten it down, I recommend that the air bag is straight up and down.
It can be slightly adjusted on the leaf spring to make sure that it is vertically straight, up and down. Now, once you've made that adjustment, we can go ahead and tighten everything down. Now, with all our fasteners tightened down, we've completely secured our air bag. Now we're ready to start installing the air line fittings and air line. We'll start with the threaded right angled nipple.
The manufacturer's already installed sealant on the end that will get threaded into the air bag. Next, we'll move to the Schrader-valve nipple. We'll be mounting this one in the bumper. First we'll need to drill out a five-sixteenth hole. Now we can go ahead and take the nipple, the nut, and two washers, and secure the Schrader-valve nipple. Now, we're ready to go ahead and start routing our line. We'll take the protective covering and feed it over the line as it will sit up against the nipple here at the airbag. Now, we'll go ahead and route the line back to the Schrader-valve nipple. The easiest way to do this and to protect the line is to route it through the frame. We'll go ahead and take our first opportunity here to get into the frame and route it back to the frame channel to the bumper. Now we'll go ahead and cut off any excess line with our tubing cutter and go ahead and secure the other end of our line into the Schrader-valve nipple. Next, we'll go ahead and take a couple of the red zip ties that were supplied with our install kit to secure the line. Now we'll go ahead and repeat the same process with our passenger's side. That will complete the install of our Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs, part number F2525, on our 2011 Ford F150.
2009 - 2009 Ford F-150
2010 - 2013 Ford F-150 All Models, except SVT Raptor
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Average Customer Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 Customer Reviews)
by: Rob B05/06/2013
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Good quality product, instructions are clear and kit was complete. The frame-mounting with the tabs is cheezy, and quite difficult on the driver side where access hole to the frame is obstructed by wiring/hydraulic lines. I recommend a solution that only uses access from outside of frame -- like a toggle bolt... after all the torque was only 20 ft-lb.79157
by: Rob B08/22/2012
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Everytime I order from eTrailer the products arrive faster and the installation gets more enjoyable. I used the air bag system to correct trailer sway and vehicle sag on my '09 F150. Putting these brackets on the suspension was awsome with only three common hand tools and the results are wonderful. I needed the adjustability of air ride to compensate for light loads when empty and of course heavy trailer weight when pulling a 20ft enclosed v-nose. This system allows me to maintain level vehicle travel with just a portable air tank and a low pressure tire PSI gauge. 52552
by: Brady Broussard07/01/2012
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I researched airbags before I purchased. The firestone bags are rated higher than the airlift bags. The kit was fairly easy to install. I did the job by myself in approx 2hrs. I havent pulled a load yet, but everything operates like its supposed to.46384
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