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When the load gets heavy, your truck shouldn't feel like it's fighting you. These air bags help you stay level, drive steady, and stay in control so you can tow with confidence and handle heavy loads without second-guessing your suspension.
Factory suspension can struggle under real-world loads—if you're delivering cargo, towing a trailer, or building out a full van conversion. Alpha HD Pro air bags add up to 5,000 lbs of rear support, helping keep your Sprinter level and composed when the weight adds up. No more dragging rear ends, sloppy cornering, or headlight glare that blinds oncoming traffic. Just a stronger stance, more predictable handling, and peace of mind behind the wheel.
Bottoming out doesn't just feel rough, it can wreck your air bags. That's why this system includes jounce bumpers inside each bag, so even with no air pressure, your suspension has a built-in safety net. You can safely run at 0 psi when unloaded, which means no harsh rebound just that smooth, factory-style ride.
A cargo run doesn't ride the same as a weekend trip and your suspension should reflect that. With air pressure adjustability from 5 to 100 psi, you can fine-tune support based on how much gear you're hauling. Drop pressure when you're running light for a smoother ride, or pump it up when the van's packed full. Manual inflation keeps it effective, and easy to manage on your own terms.
From long-haul deliveries to off-grid trails, your van sees more than perfect pavement and this system is built for it. Alpha HD Pro air bags are reinforced all the way through with heavy-duty end caps, 20 internal support wires, integrated jounce bumpers, and powder-coated steel brackets. Toss in corrosion-resistant hardware and thick roll plates, and you've got gear that holds up to real-world hauling through heat, cold, salt, and slop.
Adding serious load support shouldn't mean losing a whole weekend. The precision laser-cut brackets are designed to bolt cleanly to your Sprinter's factory mounting points with limited drilling required. Just smart engineering that fits the way it should which is perfect for the DIY-er. Manual valves mount through license plate fastener holes or a location of your choosing (which may require drilling). With high-quality fittings and mounting hardware included, you'll be back on the road with a stronger, steadier van in just a few hours.
This kit is designed to work with your setup today and wherever your upgrades take you tomorrow. You can inflate manually with standard air valves right out of the box, no extra parts needed. Already have an onboard compressor? The Alpha HD Pro system connects easily to most existing setups. Planning for an in-cab wireless controller down the road? No problem. The foundation is already built in, making it easy to expand your control options when you're ready.
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Hi, everyone, Steve here with etrailer.com. Let's take a look at our Pacbrake Alpha HD Pro Airbag Suspension Kit with Internal Jounce Jumpers for the rear axle, rated of 5,000 pounds. Now, folks, these are gonna fit a lot of different Dodge Sprinters, Freightliner Sprinters, Mercedes-Benz Sprinters, the 2500 Series, different years, makes, models. Make sure you're checking our Fit Guide here at etrailer.com. Be sure you get the right parts the first time. Now, these are gonna give you precision brackets.
These are gonna make it easy to bolt onto your factory attachment points. It's a complete kit. There's minimal to no drilling, so a little bit of drilling. It includes laser-cut brackets, as I mentioned, and push-to-connect fittings on the hardware and on the top here where the airlines going into it, and I'll throw up an image image real quick of all the hardware and all the parts you're getting. When it comes outta the box, it's gonna look something like that.
I've got it just kind of mocked up here today as far as what they could potentially look like when they're installed. Keep in mind I may not have 'em on the correct side depending on your viewing angle and all that kind of stuff, so just bear with me on that. You get all the brackets, again, all the hardware, cable ties, the airline, and there is again, inside of here, an internal jounce bumper. And what that's gonna do is you could technically be at zero PSI when you're unloaded, and that would still give you some stability and some weight-carrying capacity, but not too much. Other than that, you can go from five to 100 PSI on these double-convoluted bags, and they're gonna support up to 5,000 pounds of additional leveling support.
Now, they're gonna give you a smooth ride when you're unloaded as well because of that internal jounce. But that being said, you're gonna have to have some weight in the bed of your truck for these to work to their best. And what I mean by that is if you have an in-bed camper, maybe a super-heavy toolbox, maybe you're a construction, heavy equipment operator and you've got a lot of gear in the bed of your truck all the time, these will probably gonna be a great option. If you're just the person that's going camping once or twice a month, maybe, maybe a few times a year, and you really don't have a bunch of weight in your truck bed at all times, you might not wanna go with the internal jounce option here. You might wanna go with the one we sold separately that doesn't have that included, just to give you a better ride when you are empty, because remember, that's gonna support some, even whenever there's no weight in the bed of your truck, so it's not gonna have that same amount of flex in it that the ones without it would, so just keep that in mind.
Well, folks, that is gonna wrap it up for our quick look together at these Pacbrake Alpha HD Pro Airbag Suspension with the Internal Jounce Stoppers. Again, my name is Steven. Please, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, reach out to us. We'd be more than happy to assist you. Have a good one.
Easy to install and looks like it’s a high-quality product
haven't received or used it yet but pretty darn excited
The brackets are not built heavy enough
Easy install. Will pull trailer 3000 miles on vacation and see how it performs to Montana on highways and Forest Service roads.
good product , good strong solid metal parts and heavy bags. The instructions were not so hot but was easy to figure out and quick delivery !
Where to start I have 1500 pounds of tools in my 150 Chevy had them installed and it totally changed the ride and handling of the truck haven’t pulled anything yet but I’m amazed on how different the truck is already I Baught the ones with the bump stops in them the HD ones
I'm Vincent J,
My experience with loading my truck and seeing the difference with these air bags from PacBrake, it does look way better and the truck feels a bit more stable running atspeed limit (65mph) after that it does feels jumpy if you go over potholes, but overall I'm happy with the product, thanks Etrailer,
2020 Ram 1500.
Installation is fidgety with lining everything together for the upper bracket with u-bolt(reason for 4 stars), but still preferred over cutting the bump stop mounts off. Replaced the Timbrens with this and it is night and day difference in ride quality both unloaded and towing.
Would purchase again.
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