Firestone Ride-Rite Red Label Air Helper Springs Installation - 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 3500

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Shane: Hey, guys. Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 3500. And I want to walk you through how to install Firestone's Red Label Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. Adding air springs is going to serve a lot of purposes. If you didn't have them installed, what happened is the back of your truck sags when you add weight on it.

What that does is it puts unnecessary wear and tear on your rear suspension. It's going to raise the front end. It's going to affect your steering, affect your braking, affect your tire wear. You're going to have to white knuckle because you're going to feel a lot of pressure with the front of that truck being up in the air. But it's also going to do, it's going to allow the truck or it's going to create a lot of sway and a lot of body roll in the truck.

Adding the springs is going to reduce all of that. Be able to get your truck back up to normal ride height. So you're reducing a lot of that body roll and sway. And it's going to make your ride much more safer.Let's talk a little bit more about body roll and sway. If you didn't have airbags and you have a trailer like this on.

Say you're on a little bit of uneven terrain. What happens is if your truck's going this way and your trailer goes this way, it caused your truck to lean like this. That gets very uncomfortable because when it goes like this, it also affects your steering. It'll pull your steering wheel one way or the other.Sway. What happens with sway is if your trailer moves to one side or the other.

What it does is it pulls down on the back corner of the truck if it's going that way. Pulls down on the back corner of the truck. And by the time your suspension reacts and pushes the trailer back up, it's pushing it back over to the other side. And that's what creates the back and forth movement or the sway in the trailer. Adding airbags with your suspension that you already have greatly reduces how much downward pressure you're getting on that rear axle or on that back corner. So it keeps your trailer up straight and behind you. And keeps your truck level while you're going down the road.Another great thing that the bags do. If you didn't have airbags on and you have weight of a trailer like this and you go over a bump. What happens is the back of your truck feels like it's bottoming out. The bags are going to dampen that. So you're not feeling that hard hit when you go over that bump. Before we start our installation, we want to make sure we get measurements of factory ride height of our vehicle. This was before we add any weight to the truck and before we install the bags. What we needed to do. We're going to do this on the back wheel and the front wheel. We're going to measure right down the center to this bottom edge here on our wheel-well. We're at 41 and a half. Here in the front we're at 40 and a half.Now let's add the weight on and see what it does to the truck. You can see the size of the trailer. It's very large. This is a 3500. It's more than capable of handling this size trailer, but you can see with the weight of this trailer, before the bags are installed, how much it made the back of this truck squat.Now we're going to go ahead and measure it again now that we've added the weight of our trailer to show you difference between our factory ride height and what the weight of the trailer has done. We're going to do the same thing right at the center of the wheel. We're almost at 39 and a quarter. So we've dropped over two and a quarter inches. Go ahead and take another measurement here in the front. Just like we did in the back. We've actually brought our front end up a quarter of an inch, which isn't bad. But essentially what we're trying to do when we add our bags is to get our truck back up to normal ride height when we're carrying a heavy load.Now we've got our airbags installed and we've got about 30 PSI in each bag. We've gone ahead and loaded our trailer back up. As you can see, we're back up to normal ride height, which is going to make our ride much more comfortable and much more safe. Not only for us, but anybody else on the road.This is what our bags are going to look like when they're installed. It's going to come with all the mounting hardware and the brackets. There's not going to meet any drilling or welding