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Demanding trailer, camper, or payload weight can leave your truck squatting and less controlled. These air springs add up to 7,500 lbs of leveling support to reduce sag, sway, and bottoming, while internal jounces let you run 0 psi unloaded.
Your truck can feel composed empty, then change quickly once substantial pin weight, a slide-in camper, or a heavy work payload settles onto the rear suspension. The two adjustable rear air springs provide up to 7,500 lbs of load-leveling support to help bring a sagging rear back toward normal ride height while reducing sway and bottoming under load. Instead of treating that capacity as a target, you can tune the air pressure to the weight your truck is actually carrying.
A truck built for serious towing or hauling may still spend plenty of miles without that weight on the rear suspension. Internal jounce bumpers let you increase air pressure when a substantial load calls for more support, then reduce the air springs to 0 psi when the extra weight comes off. Those internal jounces protect the air springs against bottoming when suspension travel is used up, so you don't have to maintain air pressure simply to protect the bags during unloaded driving. The result is adjustable support that can work around both sides of your truck's job instead of treating every mile like a loaded one.
Suspension hardware lives where road spray, dirt, and weather reach it, so material choices matter underneath your truck. This kit uses braided stainless steel air lines along with stainless steel fittings, Schrader valves, roll plates, and mounting hardware to add corrosion resistance throughout key parts of the system. That extra durability is focused where it matters, helping the hardware you rely on for load support and pressure adjustment stand up to the environment beneath a working truck.
You'll start by measuring your truck's stock ride height and checking tire-to-frame clearance before removing the factory jounce bumpers, with rear-wheel removal optional if you want more working room. The air spring assemblies mount between the frame and axle using the existing jounce-bumper mounting locations up top and axle straps below, with an axle vent tube secured out of the way if equipped and careful attention paid to brake-line clearance as the springs are positioned and aligned. Once everything is secured and torqued, you'll install the passenger-side exhaust heat shield, then route the braided stainless steel air lines with enough clearance and slack for suspension movement before mounting the Schrader valves where they're easy to reach. Adding air bags is a job experienced DIYers can handle, but if you would rather leave it to a professional, we can help you find an installer near you.
The included Schrader valves give you everything you need to adjust the air springs manually, but pulling out an external compressor can get old when your truck regularly switches between demanding loads and unloaded driving. You can add a Pacbrake Bravo Wireless Air Control Kit with XD Compressor (sold separately) to adjust pressure from your phone, check live pressure, and save presets for loads you come back to regularly. Also, you'll be able to choose between filling both air springs together or controlling them independently when the load isn't even side to side. It's an optional upgrade, but one that makes the adjustable part of an air-spring system much easier to use regularly. And it's not the only solution available. There are a variety of compressor options from Pacbrake that might be the perfect fit for your setup.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi, everyone. Steven here with etrailer. Let's take a look at our Pacbrake Alpha XD Pro Airbag Suspension Kit. These are gonna include internal jounces for the rear axle. And these are a custom fit. Looks like they're gonna fit a 2014 through current year Ram and Dodge Ram Pickup, the 2500 series, both the two and four-wheel drive models.
I always tell everybody, double check that with our fit guide over at etrailer.com. Be sure you get the right parts the first time. Now as you can see, I just have the bags loosely kinda put together here on the table. The stainless steel braided lines, all the stainless steel hardware for this upgraded version of their standard kit. You will get all the hardware that you need.
You'll get the air line that you need. The additional air line on the back to inflate it at the rear bumper. And you'll get the air line cutting tool. And you'll get all these other brackets and bolts and nuts, et cetera that you're gonna need to complete the install. Once again, I just don't have room on the table for all that, but I do wanna show you what all you're getting.
And you may get more stuff than what's in that photo as well. Just make sure you're following the instructions and keep in mind you may not use everything. And if you don't wanna do the install yourself, you can reach out to us with our dealer locator tool. Based on your zip code, we can find someone local to your area that can do the install as well. Now when we started, I mentioned about these having an internal jounce inside of them.
Obviously you're not gonna be able to see that, but there is a heavy duty rubber jounce inside of here. And that's gonna mean you can run these at zero PSI and you're still gonna have that protection that's gonna prevent the bag from getting crushed and also giving you some support without any air in the system as well. These are rated at an impressive 7,500 pounds capacity. And as I mentioned before, everything's stainless steel as far as the hardware, the plates, and the stainless steel braided air lines here as well. Now if you're not familiar with airbags, they're gonna help you reduce rear end sag, body roll, and prevent bottoming out when hauling or towing those heavy loads. And depending on the system you get, you could potentially independently inflate or deflate these or you can get a T valve sold separately and you can inflate them both simultaneously at the same time. And we sell compressor kits and those kind of things as well separately. If you don't have something like that and you're wanting something like that, you can check them out over at etrailer as well. Well, folks, that's gonna wrap up by our quick look together at this Pacbrake Alpha XD Airbag Suspension Kit with internal jounce and the upgraded stainless steel hardware and parts. I'm Steven. Thanks for watching.
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