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Replace your tandem-axle trailer's suspension attachment parts with this hardware kit. Works with Road Armor equalizers. Includes shackles, wet bolts, and hardware.
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Jake Hi there, tandem-axle trailer owners. Today we're gonna be taking a look at Lippert's wet bolt kit for the Road Armor Equalizer. Before we install our equalizers, we're just gonna take it out on the test course and see how it operates. And there you can see it going over. It's a pretty noisy setup, I mean, there are a lotta squeaks and stuff. It could be some from his weight distribution system that he has installed, but we'll find out after we install our new equalizers.
Now we're gonna go back out on the test course with our new equalizers installed. Here you can see 'em in action, and right away I can notice that a lot of the squeaks and noises that we had before are now gone. We're still gettin' a couple of pops from the weight distribution system that's installed, but it is significantly quieter than what it was before. The wet bolt kit here is designed to work with Lippert's Road Armor. It does have a thicker shackle, so they are heavy duty shackles, so you're gonna get an upgrade there, it's gonna outlast your factory setup.
But they're also specifically designed to work with the Road Armor. 'Cause the Road Armor will work with trailer setups, with axles between 3,500 and 8,000 pounds, so they actually fit quite a large amount of trailers. But the dimensions are gonna be a little bit different. You can see that our Lippert one, or the Road Armor there, is a little bit closer together, the distance there. And then the distance from the hanger down, it's a little bit lower than what the factory one is here.
So to compensate for those different dimensions, the shackle links here are a little bit longer than what you would have on your factory setup to compensate for that. That'll give you a similar ride type and quality of what you had before, but you're gonna get that upgraded Road Armor dampening along with heavier-duty components. And since it's a wet bolt kit, you'll be able to grease all of your bushings. Now the Road Armor does have bronze bushings pre-installed in it, so you'll be able to grease those right away. Now, the wet bolt kit does not come with additional bushings, though.
It does come with enough wet bolts to be able to install it into your spring eyes on each side, but it doesn't come with the bushing. So if you're wanting to upgrade your spring eyes with the wet bolts, I would highly recommend pressing out your old bushings and putting in new bronze bushings. And you can buy packs of those here at etrailer to get new bushings. They are gonna be a 9/16 inner diameter with an 11/16 outer diameter by 1 3/4 for the size of bushing that you'll wanna use with this. I highly recommend it, because if you we're to just put your wet bolts in with the regular plastic bushings there, it would be okay as long as you don't grease the bushing, but if you we're to lubricate a plastic bushing like this, the grease can actually deteriorate these plastic bushings and cause them to prematurely fail. If you go with a bronze bushing however though, a greased bronze bushing that is continually maintained and greased when you use your trailer will outlast your plastic bushings here significantly. We can already see that the factory one on here, and this is a 2022 trailer, and it's still 2022. So we haven't even made it through the year yet and these plastic ones are already starting to fail. If your bushings completely fail, you can oblong the openings where your bushings install, and if that opening oblongs, you really can't do anything about it. You gotta replace the component. 'Cause if you put a new bushing in then and there's gaps on there, that new bushing's gonna fail pretty fast. So to prevent you from having to replace your equalizer, or a leak springs because of the bushings that have failed and oblonged the holes, I would recommend going with these bronze kits and grease them. And that completes our look at Lippert's wet bolt kit for the Road Armor Equalizer..
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Ratings & Reviews
Keith
11/18/2025
Installed with Road Armor load equalizers on my 2022 Jayco 25RB. The factory components are of course what they are to meet price point compared to the higher end product lines. If you tow your lightweight camper a good bit, this is a relatively inexpensive and worthwhile upgrade that will smooth out your overall ride and is much kinder to your trailer on rough roads. Glad I did it.
Dan
4/19/2024
Still working great!
Jenny N.
2/15/2022
I checked with the manufacturer and the bushings are not included with this kit. We do offer a bushing set of 4 that have an inner diameter of 0.57 inches, an outer diameter of 0.69 inches, and an overall length of 1.74 inches. It is part # K71-291-00.
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