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Jake: Hey, guys! It's Jake here with etrailer. Today, we're going to be taking a look at and I'm going to show you how to install the Dexter Easy Flex system. This is going to allow you to put a new equalizer in to be able to give you a nice, smooth ride compared to that stock equalizer that'll have come on your trailer.This Dexter equalizer is going to upgrade your equalizer for a smoother ride while the rubber core is going to minimize the back-and-forth movement of your trailer and helps to absorb some of that road shock. Now, what I like about this system is that it's going to differ in two different ways from your factory system. It's going to have that rubber bumper to absorb the shock from the road, so it doesn't transfer through the trailer and into the cab of your vehicle.You're also going to have wet bolts connecting all your moving parts with nice, handy grease zerks on the outside so that you can keep all your moving parts well-lubricated. Here's a good look at the comparison between the old equalizer and our new Dexter equalizer.
You can see the shock absorber in the middle that's going to help to give a lot smoother ride. The old bushings we're taking out are going to be a nylon bushing, which have the tendency to wear over time. So, you want to make sure you keep track of them, make sure you keep them up to par.Our new bushings are going to be a brass bushing, so it's going to hold up a lot longer and our bolts are all going to have grease zerks on them to be able to keep them well-lubricated. You are going to have heavy-duty shackles that come in the kit that's going to help to support the heavy suspension that this is going to be able to take on. With that being said, the whole construction of the system is also going to be heavy-duty steel so you're not going to have to worry about any of the parts being compromised.The bronze finish on the outside of this equalizer is going to help to resist corrosion.
If you have a tandem axle setup like we have here, there's going to be a 6,000-pound and 8,000-pound kit available. The kit we have here is going to be an 8,000-pound, so it's going to be a little bit heavier duty to be able to support that weight. It's also going to be available for triple axle trailers in both six and 8,000 pounds. Just see etrailer.Now, if you're wondering how to determine what size kit you're going to need, whether it be the 6,000 or the 8,000-pound kit, we measured between our axles. You need to either get 33 or 35 inches between your axle spacing.
The 35 inches is going to be your 8,000-pound kit, and the 33 inches is going to be your 6,000-pound kit. We have kits available for both.Now that we've gone over some of those features, let's go ahead and show you how we got it installed.To start our install, we're going to start by removing our wheels from our trailer.Now we're going to remove our five bolts from our equalizer so that we can get our new equalizer in place.Go ahead and remove our plates and our bolts.Now, we can remove our equalizer, now that our leaf springs are removed. inaudible 00:03:30 And we can slide our equalizer in place, slide our bolt through.Thread on our nut on the other side. When you're putting the nuts on the back side of the assembly, you want to make sure you squirt in a little bit of anti-seize. They do include you with two of these packets, but it should be more than enough for both sides.And we'll wait to tighten that until we have everything else assembled.
Next, we'll need to take a pin or the old bolt that you pulled out of this hole to knock this bushing out, because we'll be replacing it with these new brass bushings.To get your new bushing in place, you want to stick it in place, take one of your old bolts, slide it in, and tap it into place. If you do it until it bottoms out the bolt, it should have it in the right spot on both sides. Now we're ready to install our shackle link.Here, you're going to see those grease zerks I was referring to earlier, and the two holes where the grease is going to come out and lubricate these pivot points. To get them installed, we're going to start with a little bit of all-purpose grease. Here we're using bearing grease to be able to get our shackle installed. This is just going to help it slide in a little bit better. We can go ahead and get that in place.Slide it into place just like that. Now, we'll take our bracket, slide it on the backside of our shackles, and thread on our nuts.Now that we have our equalizer all put together, we can go ahead and remove our outermost bolt on our leaf spring.What we're doing now is we need to jack up the axle, remove our jack stand so we can lower it, the leaf spring, enough to be able to get that bushing out.Now, we'll take our punch again and knock out that plastic bushing.Now, we'll take our new bolt and insert it on the outside. And we'll place our nut on the backside. And we'll do this same process for the rearmost part of our leaf spring assembly.Now, we're going to take a 21-millimeter wrench on the outside, and a 18-millimeter socket on the inside, to tighten everything down. After you have everything tightened down, you want to go back through and torque everything down to the specifications in your directions. Once you everything torqued down to specifications, you want to grease all the zerks before you put your wheels back on. It's just going to be a lot easier, rather than trying to grease it while your wheels are on.When you see it starting oozing out the side, that's more than enough to fill up that gap. Now that we've got everything fully assembled, we can go ahead and repeat the same process for the other side. You may have noticed that our shackles, one of them is facing up in the correct direction and one of them is facing down. You may have to jack up the front axle just to get this realigned and facing in the upward position.To correct our shackle orientation, we raised up our front axle and that lowered down our shackle; now we just crank up on the rear axle, and you'll see that those shackles are going to be in the correct orientation now.With all that being said, guys, that's going to do it for our look and installation of the Dexter Easy Flex system.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (174 Customer Reviews)
I noticed a difference the first trip out with the kit installed. I was impressed with the ride quality. The install was start forward nothing hard about it. This is a product I would recommend to a friend or install again on another trailer. 688442
This equalizer system did make a significant difference in the ride of my travel trailer, but only after I replaced the center spring hanger bracket on the trailer, where the equalizer mounts, with a bracket that was about two inches longer, in order to maintain the same clearances for the springs that our original equalizer provided. This assembly is shorter than the stock equalizer in terms of the vertical distance from the center mounting hole to the attachment points for the spring shackles, and when I first installed it, the spring eyes were only about 1" from the trailer frame, causing the springs to bottom out against the frame while driving. Changing the center mounting brackets welded to the frame solved this problem and significantly improved the trailer ride. 711125
I like the equalizers, no more squeeking, coupled with the heavier leaf springs i have a better ride. Only one of the four doors/drawers pops open during travel now. I did have problems installing them, the axle was difficult to get back in place on one side, if I had jacked up the whole trailer (all four wheels off the ground) it would have been a lot easier, live and learn. Oh, had my 18 year old granddaughter and two of her girlfriends do almost all of the work as I had minor surgery on my shoulder a week before we did the change out, they wanted to do a 5 day campout with the trailer so the broken leaf spring had to be replaced. Very satisfied with them, the girls work and the equalizers. 654648
I installed this Dexter E-Z Flex om my Keystone Cougar in about 5.5 hours in my driveway. I also installed the complete wet-bolt kit at the same time. I have taken many trips since installing this, including a trip from Cali to Yellowstone and back, and I have to say the quality of the ride has improves so much that it is near perfect! The rough roads and pothole are handled so much easier and I have less fatigue at the end of each days drive. Getting under the rig to lube these has been very easy and keeps things smooth and quiet. Do this upgrade! You won't be disappointed! 323299
I've not actually towed on this product yet as I only just installed it. The product is solid and easy to fit with clear instructions that make installation easy. I chose to replace the leaf springs at the same time. Like others have mentioned in reviews, the packing isn't just terrible, it is completely absent. The heavy contents are just tossed in a box and while that is bad enough, it presents a significant risk to the grease fittings on the EZ-Flex unit. Dexter (not etrailer) need to get that sorted out. I'd have given 5* if it wasn't for that issue. 565951
The installation is pretty straight forward, however with the trailer weigh and spring strengths it was quiet a lot of work. I have air tools and jacks to work with and it took about six hours. Didn't realize how bad my bushing were worn until it was apart. Camper is a 2013 with about 15000 miles and the plastic bushing were considerably worn. With E-Z flex installed, all the creaking noise is gone, tows a lot smother, still some chucking, but well worth the money and time. Great product and great service from etrailer. Thanks 267849
I installed the E-Z Flex Dexter K71-652-00 suspension system which was an easy afternoon task. Everything went together without any problems and was quite simple. We traveled on our first short trip of 650 miles with the new system and was great. The 30' KZ travel trailer road smoother and seem to handle better. I really recommend this system up-grade to all stock suspension systems with plastic bushings and steel equalizer. 355038
About as simple a swap as you could expect. Tear off all your old stuff, throw all the new stuff on and voila! A couple of floor jacks, and 2 hrs max. Great time to swap out your junk Chinese wheel bearings too. No major ride change or anything, but at least I know the links aren't going to fail like the OEM ones did. See pic. 285667
Would have loved to write a great review as the product appears to be well built and I like the ability to lube all the spring shackles. Unfortunately one of the bolt patterns does not fit my trailer. It would help if ALL the bolt hole measurements would be displayed in one place - so that you would know prior to ordering if things would fit. 234003
Great product!!! I installed the the kit on a travel trailer just before a 7500 mile trip around the country!!!! Installation was straight forward and the product preforms great !!!!! 478451
Ronnie - 02/25/2019I have not used these dampening type equalizers before, but the idea seems good to me. I mostly purchased this kit for the ability to grease the pins in equalizer and in the spring shackles. The brass bushing are also and good upgrade over the nylon type bushings. Replacing a standard type dexter equalizer that has worn both the pins and egged the holes in the equalizer. 593759
I think they will be great. They are installed and I will be traveling soon on the new suspension. Thank you etrailer for youyr good products RV manufacturers are totally missing the boat and have absolutely no regard to quality in regards to the cheap suspension parts they put into these trailers. It just does not make any sense to put such cheap bushings. As far as I am concerned the whole RV manufacturing industry are very inconsiderate of there retail customers. 229233
Larry M - 10/04/2016I found the hardware so much hardier then the original hardware. I read several articles about replacing the poorly equipped suspension hardware on campers that can leave you stranded and with a long camping trip coming soon I didn't want to take chances with the old suspension components and with the idea that the Dexter E-Z Flex system will help with smoothing the ride is why I went this way. Your sites reviews and installation videos were very helpful. My camper has LCI axles so I had to check through your reviews so make sure the E-Z Flex would work with my axles. I did find my answer and the E-Z Flex fit perfect. The directions that came with the E-Z Flex were only good for the torque settings. Your video was much more helpful. It took me longer then expected, mostly because I should of had heavier jacks and jack stands and had to improvise some. I haven't had the camper out on the road yet so I cannot comment on the ride, but it feels good knowing that I have a really good suspension under the camper now. Overall I am very pleased with the product and with your help selecting and installing it. 368934
Ordered on Sunday it arrived on Friday and installed on Saturday went in easy, hardest part of this job is jack up the trailer. I used two jacks and lots of wooden blocks . All parts fit perfectly every thing was there no complaints. Going on the road next weekend to test the ride of my trailer, hope this will fix my rough riding trailer. It took me 5 hours to install this kit and adjust my brakes , I'm 60 years old so you can do this yourself 570169
So far so good. Survived the first 1000 miles since installation without any problems. The wet bolt system has quieted the suspension on the trailer considerably. No more low speed squeaks/squeals or groaning from suspension flex in tight turns and bumpy roads. The hard rubber baby buggy bumper pads between the opposing arms are holding up well and do absorb some of the road hazard shock rather than transferring the impact directly to the trailer frame and contents. Really big bumps still rearrange the contents in the back of the trailer, but everything rides nice otherwise. 385807
I put this set-up on both my tandem boat trailer and a 7,000# enclosed construction trailer. Prio to the boat trailer was experiencing a blow-out virtually every other trip. Thought I had a tire problem. After rebuilding the suspension system... Blow-outs are a thing of the past. Trailer tracks extremely well in curves at high speeds. On the construction trailer I had a spring eye bolt fall out after installing this kit. I have no idea how or why but I always give the trailer a look over any time I stop. Did a mcGyver to get it back to the shop where I installed a standard suspension bolt. Been going that way ever since... 269088
Doug W - 07/07/2017I was reading about suspension upgrades in an RV newsletter and I decided to check the Dexter EZ Flex out. After reading the reviews and viewing the installation videos on your website, I took some measurements and decided that these would work the best for my 2017, 28ft Pioneer Toy Hauler. It has tandem 4400# Dexter axles and springs and was a direct replacement for the stock equalizers. It took me 4hrs from the time I unpacked the parts to finishing the job. The installation video is right on and that made set up for the job pretty straight forward. Jackstands(4), a couple of 8t bottle jacks, air impact wrench/sockets, torque wrench, combination wrenches, lead hammer, grease gun, anti seize and some cribbing and you will be able to get the job done. The kit and parts are so much more robust than the stock hardware that comes with the trailer and should be much better than what came stock. I will report back once I get some miles on the road and tell you what I think of how it pulls and handles the bumps! 357303
After a year and 20,000 miles, this was one of the best upgrades in towing and ride on my 42' fifth wheel. It took out a lot of the small bumps that would open cabinet's and knock things over in the shelves. Another great advantage is the bronze bushings are greasable and do not squeak like the OEM plastic, the OEM bushings had around 3000 miles and we're already worn through, the bronze if kept greased will probably last the life of the trailer. 438995
Bought this kit last year for a tandem axle car hauling trailer. The original equalizer and bushings were just wore out from normal use. The wear was creating lots of extra vibration and noise. Thought I would give this a try. I am beyond impressed. The trailer now tows and rides as good as one of my other trailers that has torsion suspension. Vibration from axle misalignment and rattles are gone! I am so impressed I have now purchased another kit for my 5th wheel camper. Have not had the 5th wheel out yet but my expectations are pretty high after the improvement I have experienced with the other trailer. Some would argue that since my camper has shocks this is redundant. My answer to that is, "shocks and springs have different jobs". Very easy to install. Only took 2.5 hours total for both sides. 600585
Replacement of original 10 year old equalizers was fairly easy except for the old bushings in the springs, it took a lot of beating. Did not follow the instructions to remove axles, did 1 side at a time. I did replace the straight grease zerks and installed 90 deg zerks, instructions said the zerks were 1/4 28 thread, that is wrong they are 6mm 100 pitch thread. Great product will be ordering more parts soon. 556086
The EZ Flex equalizers did everything as expected. The shipping for this kit was subpar. The hardware was not packaged and all the parts beat each other during the shipping process. Also, there was 2 packets of copper colored grease that got punctured during shipping (due to zero packing/bubble wrap) and that messed up the majority of the instructions. I contacted 3 different people with Etraier (Adam, George and Angela) and neither were apologetic to how I received my package. I did however receive a canned response of "without honest feedback from valued customers like you we would not know where we need to make improvements" and I was expecting just a little more from Etrailer. The level of customer service prior to buying is top notch. I will give them that. 436306
This product exceeded my expectations, with a few hand tools an electric impact wrench and an alignment pry bar, installation was a breeze. Did one side in an hour tonight, will do other tomorrow night 246409
ALFRED Q - 04/21/2017We replaced the leaf springs and the equalizers at the same time with products from etrailer.com. The Dexter equalizers were much better than the stock product and easy to install. The leaf springs were exactly the same as those we could purchase locally and at a significantly reduced price. Well done etrailer. 501835
I just opened the box and was disappointed to see that everything was just thrown in the box. Just looking at it it looks like some of the threads are damaged from the way everything is packaged. It will be a while before I will be installing this product. I want to say that the service from etrailers was outstanding!! From fast shipping and great price I couldn't be happier with etrailer. 475693
etrailer processes failed. I ordered this product on a Wednesday, during the check out process, I purchased 2 day shipping so it should have arrived on Saturday. It arrived on Monday because etrailer doesn't include Saturday delivery on Saturday. I purchased the same part from a big online store on Thursday night and got it on Saturday for $20 more. Don't purchase anything from etrailer with 2 day shipping past Tuesday. Go with the 3 day shipping. Its the same delivery schedule and you save $18 on shipping. I will never use etrailer again! Go somewhere else! The device when on great and fit perfectly. The trailer already seems very stable. 399486
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