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Get improved handling with minimal sway and body roll. The StableLoad pads in this suspension enhancement kit feature quick-disconnects and a hinged design so you can easily return to your original ride. Specially treated drill bits included.
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The lower factory overload springs on your truck are designed to help compensate for a large payload. When you are hauling a heavy load, your truck's standard leaf springs can't always counteract the weight of it. As a result, if you hit a bump when your suspension is fully loaded, the leaf springs will give and cause your truck to bottom out. The overload springs help keep this from happening by mounting beneath the leaf springs to provide points of contact for the stressed springs.
There is natural gap between your truck's standard leaf springs and its lower overload springs. This gap allows the upper leaf springs to flex a bit before making contact with the overload springs, but having this gap creates a situation where bounce (or jounce) often occurs. StableLoads are designed to fill the gap between your standard springs and your overload springs. This pre-activates the overload springs, ensuring that they are engaged from the start instead of engaging only when your leaf springs make contact, at which point you've probably already felt the jarring.
By enhancing your lower overload springs in the way described above, you will notice less sway and body roll. This is due to the pre-loading effect of the StableLoads, which helps to better distribute the weight of your payload over the entirety of your factory suspension. This is the primary difference between StableLoads and many air bag overload systems.
With air bag suspension enhancement, the load in your truck is being taken on by the air bags. Air bags are designed to level your truck, and they operate as intended when they're under a normal load. But if you are hauling or towing a particularly heavy load, this type of suspension enhancement can create some problems. In order to get the correct amount of leveling and to ensure that your suspension won't bottom out, you will likely have to fill the air bags to a very high psi. Doing this effectively removes the load from your factory suspension. As a result, your truck's suspension is no longer able to operate as it was designed. This can lead to handling issues, such as porpoising, sway, or body roll.
If you currently have this problem with your air bag system, you can add StableLoads to your suspension and get the best out of both products. StableLoads are effective on their own, but they've also been tested with aftermarket air bag suspension systems. The two enhancements work particularly well together if you have a heavy payload. By installing StableLoads between your lower overload springs and your standard leaf springs, you are already adding support to your suspension to help prevent bottoming out, which air bags work to prevent as well. As a result, you won't have to fill the bags nearly as full, which means that they won't take as much of the load off of your factory suspension, thus allowing your suspension to function as designed - only better.
Quick Disconnect
These StableLoads can be quickly and easily engaged and disengaged. The quick-disconnect design allows you to pivot the wedge pack - the piece that sits between the springs - in and out of position with a standard ratchet and 3/8" extension (not included). As a result, you can get a stable load when you're weighted down and then return to your regular ride when you're done hauling.
Tested and Proven Winner
TorkLift's StableLoads were tested against vehicles with no suspension enhancement and vehicles with air bags that were inflated to 100 lbs; and the results are clear. By adding StableLoads to your suspension your vehicle will ride smoother, causing less wear and tear on your suspension and tires. The trucks that were tested were loaded with 2,800 lbs. The degree of movement was then recorded, using an inclinometer, when the trucks encountered the 3 most common types of handling problems: side-to-side sway, porpoising, and body roll.
Side-to-side sway is triggered when your vehicle encounters uneven ground, such as a pot hole, and the suspension gives way when it cannot counteract the weight of the heavy load being carried. This creates a side-to-side bouncing motion. As you can see in the graph above, air bags provide an advantage over no suspension upgrades. But the StableLoads offer dramatic improvement over both the standard suspension and the air bag suspension.
Porpoising is the rising and falling action your vehicle makes when driving over an object like a speed bump. Having too much bounce can make you feel like you're riding in the back of a school bus. As you can see in the graph, there is virtually no difference in porpoising between trucks with standard suspension systems and those with air bags. Only the StableLoad offers improvement for this type of problem.
Body roll occurs when your heavy load transfers unevenly as you navigate a turn, causing one side of your vehicle to lean dramatically. In some cases this can lead to your truck's tires coming off of the ground and it could even cause your vehicle to roll over if it is too top heavy. Again, according to the graph above, air bags offer no help with this problem. It is only with the StableLoads that stability improves.
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Please state in the product description that this product Will Not fit a Ram truck with factory air suspension!!!
Awesome products
And great customer service
Great customer service and super fast shipping, will definitely use these guys again.
Works great. keeps truck level
works great, just as advertised.
package arrived in a timely matter, overall quality was excellent however parts was missing 4 1/2 inch nylon nuts so I used 4 regular nuts with Loctite, install instructions were good, have not put a load in truck to really test the overloads out yet, pleased with product so far.
The application took patience to build the wedge packs and decide on application (inside or outside of spring pack). Once that was figured out, application of the rear stable load was straightforward but the front stable load could not be applied because we did not have enough room to get a wedge in the spring pack on our 2015 GMC 3500HD.
Harry and Harriet Homeowner can install this in their garage without a lift.
The final result is excellent - inconspicuous and helps control the Truck Camper load when it is on our 2015 GMC 3500HD.
They were easy to install and do the job well!
I’m not sure if the stable load actually works. When I loaded the truck camper I didn’t see much difference in sag (1/4”) and when I took it for a test drive there was still significant sway side to side. It may have settled out a little quicker. The air bags made the biggest difference. I need to evaluate further but first impression is I will send these back and get a sway bar instead.
Night and Day difference in the sway we were experiencing. Once I installed these simple mechanisms if almost completely disappeared.
Quick delivery, as ordered and easy installation. Highly recommend this over airbags.
Works great to stabilize the truck and to prevent the rolling motion
These installed quickly and easily on my truck after the initial assembly. There are some important measurements to take before you start assembly, but if those are accurate, it’s pretty straightforward.
Really makes a difference with my Cabover on!! I've recommended to several others.
Does everything that was promised..excellent with load,
Little stiff ride without.
Was easy to install. Had to cut bolts holding bottom plate that bolted to spring. Bolts too long to get between overload & spring pack. I won't be hooking up my 5th wheel until last of May, So can't comment on how they work pulling. I pull with 2003 Silverado w/Duramax. 221000 miles. Hypertec Power Tuner. 2005 Jayco Eagle 5th Wheel 12800 lbs. That Duramax will tear up the Rockies with that Eagle !! Stableload looks as if it will be a good addition to my rig !!!!
Just did not like them. Too hard to engage disengage. Took them off after 4 weeks. Still have them if you know someone who wants them
Was quite concerned when I went from an older F250 to a 2017 F150 in carrying my Truck Camper. The stable loads on the new truck gave me even greater stability and confidence than on my F250. Highly recommend them !
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