Beginner’s Guide to Installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs on a 2016 Toyota Tundra скачать в хорошем качестве

Beginner’s Guide to Installing the Firestone Ride-Rite Air Helper Springs on a 2016 Toyota Tundra

Click for more info and reviews of this Firestone Vehicle Suspension: https://www.etrailer.com/Vehicle-Susp... Check out some similar Vehicle Suspension options: https://www.etrailer.com/suspension-e... Search for other popular Toyota Tundra parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2016... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-f... Hi there, Tundra owners. Today on our 2016 Toyota Tundra, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Firestone's Firestone's Ride-Rite Double Convoluted Air Helper Springs for the rear axle. Here, we've got our vehicle unloaded. We're going to take some measurements to get our ride height at both the front and back. We're going to be measuring from the ground to the top inside edge of our wheel well. At the rear, we're measuring 39 1/4 inches. And at the front, we're measuring 36 3/4 inches.Now we'll add about a thousand pounds of water weight to the back to see how that changes the ride height of our vehicle. And now with all this weight in place, I've gone ahead and rechecked our measurements and we've dropped down two inches in the back and the front has rose up about a half an inch. Heavily loading down your vehicle and changing the geometry of its suspension like we have here, where it's caused the back end to sag, it's going to have a lot of negative effects.One of the biggest is going to be braking and handling performance. Braking is affected due to the front brakes doing most of the braking on your vehicle, but by dropping the back down you are redistributing the weight towards the rear of the vehicle. So when you go to stop, the weight's not being transferred properly to the front to allow it to stop in the same amount of distance that it used to before. It's going to affect your handling due to this as well because, having the back sag down on the front come up, it's going to change the geometry of your tires and how they sit on the road. This is going to cause your tires to wear prematurely if left in this state and it's also going to cause them to not grip the road quite as good as they did before.One last thing that it does affect is your nighttime driving. When driving at night. Your headlights now are going to be aimed up towards the sky, which is going to reduce visibility. Putting our airbags in is going to help level it out. It's going to help correct a lot of these issues.And now we're going to take it out on our test course. And here as we're going over the bumps, I can immediately feel I'm being tossed around in the cab, as the weight in the back of the truck is oscillating up and down, making it more difficult for me to maintain control of the vehicle.Now that our airbags are installed, I've gone ahead and put the weight in the back of our truck. We're going to air them up now to level it back out, see if we can't match that factory ride height.And now with them installed and inflated, we've got that same weight in the back and our ride height is within about a quarter of an inch where it was from the factory. So now with our airbags installed, we've restored that lost braking and handling performance we had with our trucks sitting sagged down in the back and our headlights are now pointed straight down the road where they we're before. We can now enjoy hauling all of our heavy loads safely to wherever our destination is. And when hauling those heavy loads. It's also going to make the ride smoother for you and your passengers.We've now got our air bags installed, we're going to head back into the test course. And I can feel a huge difference right out the gate. I'm not being thrown around nearly as much in the cab. The airbags has taken, the weight that we've put in the back of our truck and it's supporting it, keeping it from tossing the truck up and down in the back, making it much easier for me to maintain control.And this is what our airbags look like when they're installed. It's going to provide extra support between your frame and suspension system to help balance out the weight in the back when you're carrying a heavy load. Now you'll want to keep it in mind that this doesn't add to the weight carrying capacity of your vehicle. It just assists in supporting that load. They can support loads up to 4,800 pounds. It offers this high load carrying capacity due to its double convoluted design. It features four layers of rubber with a braided girdle that gives it its double convoluted shape. This helps increase the burst pressure of our bag by distributing the air properly and increasing the strength of the sidewalls. It's connected to the upper and lower plates by a roll crimp design. That also helps increase that seal and burst pressure. They have an operating range between f