etrailer | Air Lift LoadLifter 5000 Rear Air Helper Springs Installation - 2019 Ford F-150

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Hey, everybody, how's it going Today, we're going to be going over and showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter airbags here on our 2019 Ford F-150. So, airbags are going to be a great option for your F-150 here if you find yourself to be doing a lot of towing or hauling. So, the reason we might need airbags is when we have a heavy load in the bed of our truck, or you have a trailer coupled, the rear end of the truck is actually going to sag down a little bit due to that weight. Now that rear end sag, it's going to cause a number of different problems. So aside from just looking funky, no one necessarily wants the rear end of their truck to be sagging lower than the front, but something that a lot of people don't realize, and you really wouldn't actually know this until you got in your vehicle, and you started towing, is that the reduced stopping power we're going to have when the rear of our truck is squatting down there is actually quite significant. Now, the reason it affects our braking is because the majority of our braking force is going to be on the front axle.

Usually, about 60% of the vehicle's brakes is going to be on the front axle. So when we're taking weight off of that front axle and transferring it, we're going to be reducing our stopping power. So another thing we could experience with a heavy load in the bed of our truck, this is more prolonged use, and that's going to be our existing suspension components wearing down faster. Therefore, we're going to have to replace stuff like the jounce springs or the leaf springs much sooner than we would have if we're just towing normally or not towing at all. So if we come over to the front of the truck, there's going to be a few things going on here as well.

Now number one, you won't notice initially, but you will notice it over time, again with prolonged use, and that's going to be an irregular wear pattern on the front tires. Now, the reason this occurs is because again, we're transferring weight from the front to the rear. Therefore, the alignment adjustments of the front end suspension won't be within the factory specifications. Therefore, we're not going to get proper and even wear on our front tires, and then sort of another minor issue if we find ourselves to be towing or hauling at night, our headlight aim isn't going to be ideal, and we're going to be shining other motorists in the eyes, or we're not going to be getting the best view of the road ahead. So, to give you a little bit better visual representation of the difference our airbag's going to make.

So right now, we don't have any weight in the bed. We don't have a trailer attached, and we just have the factory suspension. So granted, all trucks are going to have a factory rake, meaning the rear's going to be higher than the front. We are going to kind of show you how much of a difference these air bags make when we're loaded versus unloaded. So again, unloaded factory suspension.

We're going to measure from the ground to the top inside edge of the wheel well. That's going to be right at 40 inches. Now, let's jump up to the front and take that same measurement. And then at the front here, we got 37 and a half so about a two and a half inch rake from the factory. So just as a point of reference, we have about 1,500 pounds on our truck bed here. So, what we're going to do next is retake our measurements. So at the rear here, we're looking at about 36 and a half inches. Therefore, we actually dropped about three and a half inches at the rear. Let's head to the front and retake that same measurement. So if we come to the front here, we're looking at about 38 inches. Therefore, we actually raised the front end about a half inch, which may not seem like much, but that's actually quite substantial, and it is going to attribute to some of those issues that we talked about earlier. So now, we're headed over to our test course here, the speed bump course in particular. Now, we do have a good amount of weight for this truck here. So, we really should be able to see some of the effects Yeah, right away. It's definitely bouncing around a lot there in the rear. The steering wheel is also darting side to side there on the bumps. Now, we're over here at our slalom course. We're just going to get up to speed. We're going to make some evasive maneuvers here. Yeah, we're definitely getting a lot of body roll here with that weight back there shifting back and forth. So now that we have our airbags installed, we went ahead and put the weight back in the truck bed here so we could retake our measurements, and at the rear here, we're looking at rig