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5,000-lb Capacity. Ride-Rite air springs enhance your factory suspension for safety and stability when you are hauling heavy loads. They reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load size for a consistently smooth ride.
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Firestone Ride-Rite springs are designed to increase safety and reduce the strain on your truck when you are hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer. The springs partner with your existing rear suspension system to help keep your truck level, maintain even load distribution, and increase stability. Hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer can make the rear of your truck 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 truck and improve braking and handling. The air springs also help to level your headlight beams and reduce wear on your tires.
The air pressure in the Ride-Rite springs can be adjusted manually, side to side, to compensate for off-center loads. A centered load improves the stability of your truck by reducing body roll. The air springs will also help to absorb road shock and 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 truck's bumper to provide easy access to the manual inflation valves.
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 truck. 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.
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. No drilling is required for installation.
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Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi, there. I'm Michael with etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a quick look at this Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Spring Set. So these springs will install between your truck's frame and the rear suspension. These are gonna help to maximize your safe load carrying capacity, increase your stability, and improve your ride quality. So while the helper springs themselves are pretty interchangeable amongst several different kits, these brackets here are custom designed for your 2021 and newer Ford F-150.
So this is gonna be very simple to get installed on your F-150 with these custom brackets. These air helper springs will allow you to adjust the air pressure from five PSI up to a hundred PSI, so you can keep your truck level when you're hauling a heavy load. That's gonna help to improve your steering control and braking, and allow you to have your headlights level and reduce your tire wear. All the issues that come along with having your vehicle squatting under that heavy load. So these will provide up to 5,000 pounds of load leveling capacity.
Keep in mind, that's not going to increase your Ford's weight carrying capacity, so you don't want to exceed the manufacturer's recommended weight limit. Think of it less like a second set of hands, helping you lift more weight. Think of it more like a back brace. So it's there to just kind of help your factory suspension take some of that strain off of it, reduce prolonged sagging and strain on your leaf springs. So it is going to help to take some of that strain off of it.
It's also gonna help to increase your stability. It will absorb road shock for a nice, smooth ride. Soften contact between your axle and frame to prevent bottoming out. So it is going to help give you a much more comfortable ride. These can be inflated individually, so if you have an off center load, something really heavy on one side of your truck, you can air that bag up more, so that you have even load distribution and vice versa, so that you can kind of customize it for your setup.
Like I said, these are adjustable, so you can adjust how much pressure is in there. So if you just need a little bit of support, if you've got a light load, you can go down to that five PSI minimum. Or if you've got a really heavy load and you need a lot of support, you can go up to that 100 PSI. Adjustability is gonna be really nice, giving you that support that you need. These springs are made here in the USA of a nice, solid durable rubber construction. They do have the double convoluted design, and when combined with that rubber construction, it's gonna provide maximum load support and durability for you. These do come with a limited lifetime warranty on the air springs, so you can trust they're gonna hold up well for you. All the materials necessary for installation are included here, as well as instructions to walk you through the installation process step by step, make sure everything's installed properly. A couple things that are not included that you might want to consider. These are going to be kind of a manual inflation, so you will need to find a compressor on the side of the road. Air pump, something like that. There are compressors, air tanks, switches, and gauges available. Those are sold separately, but it's a lot more convenient if you are gonna be switching your air frequently to get something like that installed on your vehicle, as well as the airbags, just so you have that convenience from the cab of your truck, being able to adjust the pressure, monitor the pressure, and that sort of thing, and make sure that it's gonna work out best for you. But definitely not a absolute necessity. You can get by just airing these up at home before you take off on your trip, that sort of thing. But the compressor and air tank is definitely a convenience that I would recommend. So that completes our look for today. Again, I'm Michael with etrailer.com. Thanks for watching.
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