etrailer | Air Lift LoadLifter 7500 XL Air Helper Springs Installation - 2016 Ford F-250 Super Duty

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Connor: Hey guys, how's it going Connor here today at etrailer.com. We're going to be taking a look at the Air Lift Load Lifter XL Air Springs here for our 2016 Ford F-250.Now, in order to show you the benefits our Air Springs are going to have on our F-250 here, we're going to go ahead and take some measurements for you. The measurements we're going to be taking are from the ground to the top inside edge of our wheel well, with the factory suspension, and our truck completely unloaded.So we're going to do this now for the rear, and we're going to get about 41 1/2 inches. Now we're going to head to the front. For the front, we're going to have about 41 inches from the ground to the top inside edge of our wheel well here.Now that we have our factory suspension unloaded, we have those measurements, we're going to go ahead and place a load in the bed of our truck. And we're going to retake our measurements here, to see how much they changed.Keep in mind, we just have the factory suspension.

Now we're going to go ahead and retake our measurements. So, for the rear here, from the ground, to the top center of the wheel well here, we're going to have about 39 inches. So it looks like the rear end of our truck went down about two and a half inches.Now let's come to the front here, retake our front measurement. Looks like we're about 41 1/2 inches. Therefore, the front of the truck came up about a half-inch.I know what you're probably thinking.

A half-inch of difference doesn't seem like a whole lot, but believe it or not, this is going to have quite drastic effects on our vehicle while we're telling.Number one, our tires aren't going to have the correct factory camber. Therefore, we're going to have problems with irregular tire wear.Another issue we're going to have here is that our headlights are going to be pointed more up towards the sky. Therefore, we're going to be blinding other motorists on the road, or we're also not going to have the best visibility. Last but not least, our stopping power is going to be reduced quite drastically here, since we have the weight transferred more to the rear axle.Now the factory breaking is going to be about 60% in the front and 40% of the rear. You can imagine the effects that can have, once we take the weight off the front axle, and transfer it more towards the rear.

So in regards to the rear of the truck, as we remembered, we went down about two and a half inches, and this is actually quite severe.The number one thing we're going to notice is, we're going to be stressing our factory suspension more. Therefore, we're going to definitely have a worse ride. It's going to be a lot more bumpy, and it's not going to be nearly as stable. Also, your factory suspension, since it is being stressed more, it's definitely going to wear down quicker, and we're going to be replacing the existing components sooner than we should be.So now that we've given you a visual here of what this weight is going to do to our pickup, let's go ahead and take it on the test course, and show you how it handles. We're going to go over a couple of test courses here at etrailer.The first one is going to be our speed bump course.

We're going to get up to speed, and go over a series of these speed bumps. So yeah, we can definitely feel that weight sort of jolting us around a little bit. It is a pretty bumpy ride, and in turn with this, it's also grabbing our steering wheel and sort of shooting it one way or the other.Now we're going to head on over here, to our slalom course, we're going to do some invasive maneuvering, at a constant speed. Now, just the first couple of maneuvers here. We can definitely feel that weight just sort of shifting around back there.It's given us a little bit of a body roll. Whenever we do want to come to a stop, it is starting to push us a little bit in the truck here, which we notice. That's going to be the decreased braking power we have, since we don't have as much weight on the front axle.Now that we have our airbags installed, let's go ahead and retake our measurements here. So in the rear, if you remember the first time, we got about 41 1/2 inches, so it looks like we're right back to that factory mark there.Let's go ahead and head over to the front. If you remember the first time, we're at 41 inches in the front. Again, we're right back to the factory ride height. Now that we've got back to factory ride height, we're not going to have any issues with our irregular tire wear, or our headlights pointing up in the air, blinding others and reducing our