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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.
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Air Lift's LoadLifter 5000 was designed with an exact purpose: to provide full-time, first-class support to your 3/4- 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 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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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2005 Chevy Silverado, well be installing the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs, part number AL57275. First, well go ahead and show you the performance of the Air Lift Air Helper Springs. Now to begin our install, well first remove the manufacturers bump stops. The bump stops are secured to the frame with two bolts. Well go and remove the bolts and then the bump stop. Next, well start assembling the air spring.
Well take the airbag and the two roll plates, one for the top and one for the bottom, and set them on the airbag. Next, well take the elbow fitting, and screw it in to the top of the airbag.First, well install it finger-tight, then we use a wrench, and tighten it down an additional one and a half turns being careful not to over tighten it. Note that the elbow fitting already has a preinstalled sealer on it, so no additional sealer is necessary. Next, well install the upper bracket. The upper bracket has two sets of slots for securing to the top of the air spring.
As per the instructions, one set will be identified as slots A, and the second set will be slots B. Slots A will be for the driver side, and the second set of slots indicated by B will be for the passenger side.For assembling the driver side airbag, well be using the slots A, and secure it with the 3/8 bolt split-lock washer and flat washer. Well install the hardware finger-tight at this time. Now, well go ahead and start assembling the lower bracket. For the driver side, well install a 3/8 bolt and nylon locknut in to the open hole of the lower bracket, then well also install two 3/8 carriage bolts, a 5/16 bolt parking brake cable bracket, flat washer, and a nylon locknut.
We could take our bracket, turn it over, and install it on the bottom of the airbag, securing it with the 3/8 flathead screws.Next, were ready to install the airbag in to the truck. Well install the bottom bracket over the rear axle at the bump stop seat, and the upper bracket will line up with the attachment points for the manufacturers bump stop. Well make sure the J-hooks of the lower bracket go around the bump stop seat being careful not to pinch or damage the manufacturers brake lines as we set our air spring in to position. Now with the air spring in position, well use a 3/8 bolt, split-lock washer, and flat washer going down through the frame, then through the upper bracket, secured with the 3/8 locknut.Next, well install the lower bracket axle strap securing with the flat washer and locknut. Next, well make any adjustments necessary to make sure that the upper roll plate and lower roll plate are as perpendicular to each other as possible.
Now with all our hardware emplaced, well go ahead and start tightening it down. Well start with the upper bracket to frame attachment point. Once we made our adjustments, well go ahead and tighten down the air spring to the upper bracket, then well secure the axle strap, then well secure the parking brake cable bracket.Now with the air spring secured, well install the parking brake cable clamp securing with the 5/16 bolt, flat washer, and nut. Once we have the hardware installed finger-tight, well go ahead and tighten it down. This will ensure that the parking brake cable does not come in contact with the air spring. Now with the driver side installed and secured, well move over to the passenger side. Well repeat the same process. Now with the passenger side installed and secured, well go ahead and start routing our airlines. To begin routing the airlines, well first make two attachment points for our inflation valves.Here at the back of the vehicle, well go ahead and drill two holes next to the manufacturers 7-way connector as mounting points for our inflation valve. Well start with a smaller pilot bit, and open up to the 7/16 bit which will be large enough for the inflation valve. Now with both holes drilled out, well go ahead and find the center of our airline, and cut it in half. Well take one of the inflation valves, install a nut and serrated washer feeding it from underneath the vehicle outside through the 7-way bracket. Well install the rubber washer, flat washer, and nut to secure it, and we can tighten it down. Well go ahead and repeat the same process for the passenger side.Now, we can go ahead and start routing our airlines. Keep in mind were routing your airlines to stay away from any moving components thats steering your suspension or excessive heat such as the exhaust. Well go ahead and route the driver side following the manufacturers wiring, and then along the frame, and ultimately to the airbag. Well go ahead and cut off any excess length using our tubing cutter, so we get a clean straight cut without crimping our line. Well go ahead and install it in to the elbow fitting at the top of the airbag. To install it, align it up with the fitting pressing it in firmly, and then pulling out to lock it in place.Now, we can go ahead and use the black zip ties provided with the install kit to secure the airline as necessary. Next, well repeat the same process with the passenger side. Now with the passenger side routed over the airbag, well go ahead and cut off any excess length, and then install the airline protector sleeve. The sleeve will fit over the airline, and help protect it from any excessive heat from the exhaust. Now with the protective sleeve installed, well go ahead and install the airline in to the airbag pressing it in firmly, and pulling out to lock it in place. Now, we can go ahead and use the black zip ties to secure the airline as necessary. Now with both airlines installed and secured, well go ahead and cut off any excess from the zip ties for a clean preinstalled look.On the passenger side, well be installing a heat shield. To install the heat shield, well take it, bend both tabs in, and then flatting them back out to create an airspace between the tailpipe and the heat shield. To secure the heat shield to the tailpipe, well use the worm gear clamp provided. Now with both clamps on, we can then go ahead and take our heat shield which weve already prepared, set it in to position between the tailpipe and the airbag, and then secure it with the worm gear clamps. With everything installed and secured, well go ahead and put some air in our air springs, and then check for leaks.To check for leaks, were just going to just a water-soap solution, and spray each one of the attachment points. Now weve verified we dont have any leaks, were ready to hit the road. That does it for the install of the Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Air Helper Springs, part number AL57275 on our 2005 Chevy Silverado. .
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (136 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.Finished the install last weekend fairly smoothly. I jacked up one side of the truck at a time since I only had one jack. Had to put the jack on cinder blocks to get it high enough to engage the leaf spring front mount. One comment/suggestion for the installation guide. The only thing I struggled with was the parking brake cable. It was exactly in the way of engaging the bottom bracket to the axle. No matter how I moved the bracket it would not clear the cable. Then the light came on, release the brake dummy! Once the brake was released there was plenty of room to engage the assembly onto the axle. Of course, I did put some chalks on the front tires to keep the truck from rolling while I was underneath... No leaks, and it seems to ride much smoother than before. Thanks for a great product, 104826
Michael S - 10/23/2014
Loved it! Easy install and other than having to fill it manually, because compressor went out, soon after installation, it was a great choice! 706997
Super fast delivery, very easy to install. Great quality and works well Thanks for coming though again etrailer 688066
The kit was nice and complete. Installation took about three hours. The instructions could have used more pictures. The upper bracket needed more pictures. The kit was neat and install was easy with very little tools. I would recommend this to my friends. 617301
I have bought this product before and was extremely happy with it, that's why I bought it again for a truck that I just purchased. Thank you. 611460
easy install,one of the elbow fittings leaked,i called airlift ,they rushed me 2 immediately.we were able to install new elbow with out removing air bags.no more saggy bed when pulling fifth wheel to florida keysi run them at 35-40 psi to level truck when towing. 321031
Good product and install was easy because of the installment video found on the website. 264849
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My order arrived really fast and was exactly as ordered. I have been satisfied with past orders and was equally satisfied with this order. I will certainly use them in the future. 641733
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Item as described, great price fast shi pping. 661266
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They work great, both bags are on the same fill hose thats routed through my license plate. 721118
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Great product great service on time 423689
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Love love love these helpers on my 14 F-150 quad cab 5.5 box. Helps handle the load of the 5th wheel and anything else I load in the box.. great product great service. Thanks again 510133
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It has changed the ride on my vehicle for everyday driving. It is a very rough ride. 667714
Mike L - 07/10/2019Review from a similar Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 in Vehicle Suspension
Just installed it but it looks good hope to hook up to trailer next week. The shipping was great 367483
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Awesome product fairly easy to install. Noticed a big difference when towing vehicle feels great and handling was improved. Vehicle would squat when towing a 25 foot trailer now sits leveled and has a firm ride. 679869
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I made a mistake and ordered the wrong kit.. they took care of it and had the correct bags to me in 3 days 600994
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Easy to install and works great! Would have been nice to have been furnished with a “Y” for single air supply point. 512584
David - 05/24/2019Review from a similar Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 in Vehicle Suspension
Great service. Product delivered as promised. Recently installed and tested. 671817
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High quality and heavy duty. Good instructions as well. Just got them installed yesterday on my 2009 F-150 crew cab with 6.5' box. I also have the B&W turnover gooseneck ball hitch and my main concern was still being able to mount these. Fit like a charm, no interference at all. I wish I would have purchased them sooner. Sometimes we haul loads that might be just a bit heavy for an F-150, but we are careful. These will certainly help. I have similar air bag type suspensions install on our other two work trucks and I love them. What I did was got myself a 1/4" compression tee and plumbed both air bags into one valve. That way, they air up evenly. It comes with everything to air up each bag separately but I prefer them to be the same. They cost about $6 at any hardware store. I mounted the single air fill valve near the drivers tail light inside the box facing forward. There is an opening where the tail light harness runs up and I followed that with the air valve. I drilled a hole and snaked a tie wire down and through some finagling I managed to get the valve out the hole and mounted. Looks good and is out of the way. Install took me about 5 hours from tools out to tools away, but I was not in a big hurry. I aired them up to 70 psi and drove home looking like a hot rod with the back kicked up. Checked the air pressure this morning and all is well. No leaks as far as I can tell. Highly recommended and a great price as well. 643462
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Have had the air bags installed for 3-4 weeks now. Love them! Huge difference in ride quality when hauling or towing heavy loads. My only criticism is in the design. The left side fit perfect and the bag is perfectly aligned vertically but the right side bag is canted slightly. Almost as if the bottom brackets holes are drilled slightly off. I called the company and was told that up to 15 degrees is acceptable. It just looks as though the bag may wear more but time will tell I guess. I would still recommend. Also looking at purchasing the compressor system to ensure the bags always have adequate pressure. 421216
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Installed on 2018 Ram 2500. The product is made of quality construction and the instruction are straight forward. 666407
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Convenient and useful... 667408
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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. 669525
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The Airlift airbags I installed on my 2015 Ford F-150 were easy to install and everything fit as described. I have made several purchases from etrailer.com and am very satisfied with the products they sell and the speed in delivery. 211609
Gilbert T - 07/13/2016Review from a similar Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 in Vehicle Suspension
I have had the air bags installed for over a year now. From the boat ramp, camper and dump trailer these things just work GREAT. I will add a set of these to every truck i owe from now on! So nice to be able to level you truck out regardless it being a large or small load. They truly give your truck a safer ride when towing! 526431
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