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Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle
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Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle

Part Number: AL57272
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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. Great Prices for the best vehicle suspension from Air Lift. Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle part number AL57272 can be ordered online at etrailer.com or call 1-800-940-8924 for expert service.
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Air Lift Vehicle Suspension - AL57272

  • Air Springs
  • Rear Axle Suspension Enhancement
  • Air Lift
  • Heavy Duty

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.


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
    • Designed for heavy-duty applications
  • 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 the 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 was designed with an exact purpose: to provide full-time, first-class support to your 1/2-ton, 3/4-ton, or 1-ton pickup, motor home, or commercial truck. With this kit, you get a safer ride and simultaneously protect your vehicle from the strain that comes with hauling massive 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 lbs of load-leveling capacity and distributes the weight of your payload to all 4 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, 2-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.



57272 AirLift Load Lifter 5000 Air Bag Suspension Support System - Back Axle

Installation Details AL57272 Installation instructions

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Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs - Rear Axle - AL57272

Average Customer Rating:  4.7 out of 5 stars   (1121 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.

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1999 Chevrolet Silverado

SO far so good installed this weekend and drove around and felt good. Will see what happens with the RV loaded.



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Delivered on time. Installation was straight forward and easy remove your wheels and put stands under frame axle will drop down enough to slide airbags in. Attach top mounts then jack up rear end to attach lower mounts. Now I can hook up a trailer and not shine the trees with my headlights. So far very pleased with them.



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2005 Chevrolet Silverado

Super easy to install!
Could tell immediate
stability in the truck, haven’t got to hook up to trailer yet, but I can tell it’s gonna worth it! Thank you etrailers for the product and quick delivery!



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Installation directions were good. Just made first trip. Helped out tremendously. Obviously know nothing to the longevity as of yet.



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I've been pleased



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2000 Chevrolet Silverado

Very easy to install



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2005 GMC Sierra



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2004 Chevrolet Silverado



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I am not happy with trailer. The box arrived and was all taped up and abused. When I opened the box there was an important part missed. I called and talked to Joanne and she asked me to send pics of the box and I did and have not heard from anyone about the missing part.i hope you will be able to help me get this part issue solved.



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Air Lift air springs are good and dependable, use them for the last 25 years on three pick-ups always worked great. My complaint would be against the lousy packaging which came with two or three holes and all messed up, luckily all that was missing was one washer.



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Work the air bags Monday thru Friday every week since install.They complement upgraded leaf springs very well! Had no maintenance or problems of any kind.



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The etrailer Air lift Loadlifter 5000 Air helper springs for my GMC 1500 truck Rear axle worked excellent, they are unreal and I wish I had installed them 15 years ago. I recommend to anyone pulling a large trailer to get these installed on your pull vehicle to reduce the rear end load on your vehicle and stabilize your trailer pulling vehicle.



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Excellent material and the installation instructions were very clear and to the point with the best pictures that coincided with the written material. Only took me 2.5 hours from the start of assembling the air bags with the hardware on the workbench to putting away my tools! This is on my '04 dodge 3500 dually that will be handling my new Host Mammoth Slide in Camper that will set at apprx. 5000 lbs.! Beautiful to maintain level truck and to know that the springs are not collapsed and wearing them down prematurely as well as providing a safe handling truck when on the road.



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just getting done putting my 5000 Justable air springs put them on about three hours I didn’t have any left I did them on the ground so that’s not too bad I’m gonna be sending some pictures along with us so thanks very much and I hope they work



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Installation of the Loadlifter 5000 kit went smoothly, no issues at all. One of the best advantages of having this system on my F-150 is the stabilization it provides when towing our camper. I tow a 6,000 lb camper with an 800 lb hitch weight. I use a weight distribution hitch so the truck and camper ride level, as they should. The difference with the Loadlifter system is that it controls the bounce, providing a much more stable and controlled ride. I highly recommend this air spring kit in conjunction with a weight distribution hitch. When you don't need to added support of the air springs, ie no load, just drop the air pressure down to 5 lbs and you don't know they are there.



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Order after order I have been completely satisfied with E-Trailer. They are always available for questions, and best of all they have the answers. The products they sell are first rate.

My last order was the Air lift load lifter 5000 item # AL 57288. After confirming the fit for my truck with there team, I ordered it. It arrived on time, and in great condition.

The team at E-Trailer know there stuff and are ready to help you.



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Installation was straightforward and retained the original suspension while adding the bags. Inflation to level the rig, a 2018 Ram 1500 and a 3 1/2 ton travel trailer, was surprisingly quick. The ride from Southern California to Central Oklahoma was uneventful. The bags handled the load and the road without sway or dip. Very happy with the product.



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Great product but instructions could be better. Simple things like identifying parts better to make it quicker to find the right part. Like in step3 installing M10 bolts, they were the only black bolts, if they said that it would have been really quick to identify them in the parts bin.
Better identifying info on pictures to orientate you as to what your looking at.
A zoomed out view every once in a while of where things are in relation to the truck.
In step 10 be more specific about the part your cutting, they talk about taking brake line mount X off and then talks about cutting a brake line mount but its a different one.
Installing Nylon Air lines - SO right off it tells you to cut the line in half ie one for each side, but you should first look at how the line for the right side where the muffler is as I could not route it along that frame rail as it would be WAY to close to the muffler going to the air bag. so I was not able to route it cleaner the long way on the left frame rail and over axle.
Last it NEVER says how to attach the air line to the 90 deg fitting on the air bag. Had to go to youtube to see its a simple press on but without saying that....



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I have a 2019 Nissan Titan XD with the 5.6 GAS motor. Wanted to do an Airlift suspension to provide a little support and get my headlights perfectly back to level when towing my travel trailer. No one makes an airbag kit for the gas XD, but after discussing it some with John H at etrailer, I decided to go with the kit for the diesel truck and see how things went.
The kit for the diesel truck fit perfectly, except that there is an emissions component hung from a bracket on the driver's sign frame that prevents a direct install of the driver's side bag. My shop was able to install the kit with no trouble - they just had to bend the bracket with the small emissions component attached upwards for clearance. Everything else went in as designed. Great fit - can't wait to see it work under load.



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Good product, quick service. Took a couple hrs to install and very happy with the results



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I have had rear suspension airbags on the last 5 trucks I have owned. There is no better system to control weight roll of a load in the bed or sway control pulling trailers.Be sure to order the air line "T" which does not come with the kit so that "T" can be connected to use only 1 air fill location to balance your load.
No more need for sway control bars to struggle when pulling your camper with this set up.



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I have a 2011 GMC 2500 HD. Installation was fairly easy; must have patience. Instructions indicated could not use U bolts with fifth wheel hitch. In my case, I found with a little finesse I was able to install the U bolts just fine without having to drill holes in the frame. I have a Reese fifth wheel hitch. So far after pulling my trailer one time it works great.


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