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Shane: Hey, guys. Shane here with the etrailer.com. Today, I have a 2017 Ford F250 Super Duty. I'm going to be installing Air Lift's LoadLifter 7500 XL airbags.This is what our bags are going to look like when they're installed. These are going to be heavy-duty bags. They're 7500 XL bags, so they're designed for your bigger trucks that are carrying heavier loads.
These are going to be double convoluted which means if you look at the bag, it looks like two separate bags. This is actually one bag with a steel band around the center. When you compare it to a single bag, the benefit of having a double convoluted bag over a single bag is, with a single bag, when the air deflates, that bag overlaps itself. When it overlaps, where that crease is, it starts wearing on that rubber. With these, they don't overlap.
That's a great benefit to having these. Our end caps are going to be a Zytel nylon, so they're going to be lightweight, and they're going to be a lot more durable, and a lot more resistant to rust and corrosion than steel.Our max working load limit is going to be 75,000 pounds, but you want to make sure you check your owner's manual and make sure the vehicle can withstand that amount of weight. We're going to have a maximum PSI of 100 per bag, and we're going to have a minimum PSI of five. You want to make sure you keep at least five PSI in your bags when you're not hauling anything. What that does, it keeps a little bit of pressure on the bags so that the bags will last a lot longer for you.These are going to come with the air fittings or airlines to run to the back of the vehicle so you can manually inflate and deflate each bag.
The benefit of that is if you're hauling anything in the bed of your truck that may be a little bit heavier on one side, you can add air into that one single bag to help your vehicle get level again so that you're driving normal. Keep in mind, once these are installed, that if you ever had to take it anywhere to get worked on, make sure that they know that they can not hang the rear axle. Allowing the axle to hang will put a lot of unnecessary stress on the bags.One thing to keep in mind when you're putting the airbags on, if you're thinking about getting an air compressor, it's a good idea to install it at the same time you're installing the bags. If not, it can always be added later, and we have several different options for air compressors here at each trailer.Before we install our bags, we need to take a few measurements. We're going to take a measurement in the back and in the front.
We're going to write down the center of the wheel to the bottom of our fender here. The reason we want to do this is to get a measurement for our factory ride height before any weight is added. Here in the back, we're at about 43-1/2. In the front, we're at 40. Now we're going to take another measurement. We've added about 1300 pounds to the bed of our truck. We we're at 43 inches with no weight factory ride height, and now we're at 41, so we've dropped about two and a half inches. Here in the front, we actually only came up about a quarter of an inch, which is good.But this is a pretty heavy duty truck, if we add the weight capacity that this truck can handle, what it's going to do is it's going to raise the front end up. That means your headlights are not going to be aiming at the road, they're going to be aiming up in the air, which is going to make it unsafe. Unnecessary wear and tear on your tires, it's going to affect your braking, steering is going to be really light, and it's going to affect your suspension in the back.Now with our airbags installed, we have about 45 PSI in them. We have the same weight that we had in them before we had them installed. We're going to go ahead and take another measurement and see where we're at. If you remember, our factory ride height was 43-1/2. When we added our weight before our bags, we we're at 40. So, we dropped about two and a half inches. With 45 PSI in there, we we're able to bring our vehicle back up to normal ride heights.We'll take a measurement here at the front again. We're right at 40-1/4, so we brought the front of our vehicle back to normal ride height. We we're still within a half inch, so it really wasn't affecting the front of our vehicle as much as some higher weight will. But being able to
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