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Hey everybody, how's it going Today, we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the Air Lift LoadLifter XL Air Helper Springs, here on our 2020 Ram 2500. So, a couple of reasons here, why you may want to consider Air Springs for your particular truck here. So, essentially, what these are gonna help us with, they're gonna help us reduce rear end sag and rear end squat while we're towing or hauling. Now, the reason this is important, there's a few different things we can touch on. The biggest one, however, I would say, is gonna be braking. So, when we place a heavy load, either in our truck bed or on the hitch and we're squatting down the rear of the truck, we're transferring the weight from the front to the rear.

And this is actually gonna have quite a big effect on our braking. The reason being that most of our braking force is distributed on the front axle, approximately 60%. Therefore, by taking weight off of the front axle, transferring it to the rear, we're gonna be reducing our stopping power. So, reduced stopping power is probably the biggest thing. However, there are a couple other smaller inconveniences you'll experience from having excessive rear end sag or squat.

Now, for starters, again, we're gonna be taking weight off the front axle. Therefore, the alignment of our wheels and tires here, isn't gonna be within factory specifications depending on the weight that we have. Therefore, that's gonna equate to uneven wear on our tires and a lack of stability when we're turning. Although, not as big of a factor as the ones we just talked about, something else you'll experience is gonna be improper headlight aim. Therefore, we're not gonna have the greatest visibility when we're driving out at night, and we're gonna be shining other motorists in the eyes with our headlights here.

Because again, the angle of the truck is shifting upward here in the front, so we're not gonna get the best visibility of the road. So, just as a point of reference here, keep in mind, your exact measurements may vary. We're gonna be measuring the factory ride height here at the rear and at the front, so we can show you the difference our airbags make once we get the weight in there. So, we're just simply gonna be measuring from the ground to the inside edge of our fender here. Try to be at the center as much as we can.

So, here at the rear, our factory unloaded ride height measurement is gonna be 41 and 1/4. Now, let's head up to the front and see what we get there. So, at the front here, we're gonna get about 38 and 1/2 inches. Therefore, we have about a three inch rake from the factory. Now, let's go ahead and get our truck loaded up here, so we can show you the difference. So now, we've got a couple hundred pounds here in the truck bed. We'll go ahead and retake our measurements. So, for the rear here, we're gonna measure right around 39 inches. Therefore, we dropped a couple inches here in the rear. And then, up here at the front here, we're gonna get about 39 and 1/2 inches. Therefore, we came up about an inch in the front. So, the comparison between the factory suspension, loaded and unloaded is a couple inches in the rear, we're reducing. And then we're increasing in the front here an inch. And even though that may not sound like a lot, that is gonna have a drastic effect on our steering, braking, and stability while driving out in the road. So, remember guys, these measurements are for our particular application, our suspension, the condition of our suspension and the exact amount of weight. So, we're not really paying attention to the exact numbers just to change, if you will. Now, let's go ahead and go one step further. Let's take our truck out into the test course, load it up, so we can show you how it handles it. Then we'll go ahead and slap on our airbags, so we can show you the improvement. So now, we've got a speed bump course here at etrailer. We're just gonna get the truck up to about 10, 15 miles an hour or so. We're gonna go over this course here. We're gonna describe to you how it feels with the truck loaded. So, we can definitely feel it bouncing around a lot back there, so chances are, you're not gonna be driving over speed bumps on the highway. But if you hit potholes, that could definitely throw the alignment of your truck and trailer off and give you some stability issues. We're definitely noticing a little bit of jostling back there. A lot of porpoising effect, if you will. Just an unnerving feeling, we don't feel as much as control of our truck as we should. So now we're gonna head over to our slalom course here. We're gonna g