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5,000-lb Capacity. Ride-Rite air springs enhance your factory suspension for safety and stability when you are hauling heavy loads. They reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load size for a consistently smooth ride.
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Firestone Ride-Rite springs are designed to increase safety and reduce the strain on your vehicle when you are hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer. The springs partner with your existing rear suspension system to help keep your vehicle level, maintain even load distribution, and increase stability. Hauling heavy loads or towing a heavy trailer can make the rear of your vehicle sag and the front end rise. This puts more strain on your rear axle and reduces contact between your front tires and the road, causing problems with braking, steering control, and traction. By adding air springs to your rear suspension, you can help to level your vehicle and improve braking and handling. The air springs also help to level your headlight beams and reduce wear on your tires.
Adjustable Air Pressure
The air pressure in your Ride-Rite springs can be adjusted manually, side to side, to compensate for off-center loads. A centered load improves the stability of your vehicle by reducing body roll. The air springs will also help to absorb road shock and to soften contact between your axle and frame. This prevents bottoming out, thus improving ride comfort. Route the air line tubing for the springs to your vehicle's bumper to provide easy access to the manual inflation valves.
Air Spring Construction
Firestone's double-convoluted Ride-Rite air springs are designed to give you maximum load support and enhance the performance and ride comfort of your vehicle. The rubber springs provide cushioning between your suspension components and operate at up to 100 psi. The springs have 4 layers of reinforced rubber to ensure durability and enhance load support. A braided wire girdle creates the double-convoluted shape of each air spring, increasing the burst pressure of the spring. The rubber springs are attached to corrosion-resistant metal end plates with a time-proven, rolled crimp seal that keeps the bags securely anchored.
Air Spring Installation
Each Ride-Rite kit includes custom-fit brackets that connect to your axle and frame. The brackets provide the mounting points for the air springs. No drilling required.
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (2594 Customer Reviews)
5,000-lb Capacity. Ride-Rite air springs enhance your factory suspension for safety and stability when you are hauling heavy loads. They reduce strain on your rear axle, keep your vehicle level, and adjust to load size for a consistently smooth ride.These are amazing!! Improved even the standard ride with only 7lbs of air. The truck feels more responsive and stable. Can't wait for Spring to hook up the camper and try them out in application.
What a difference these helper springs made on my truck!! I have a Chevy 1500 and they were lacking in the suspension department. A friend suggested that I get a set of air bags for my truck and I purchased the Firestone helper springs. Total night and day difference. My camper is 9,800 lbs and I can't even tell it's on when I have these pumped up to about 50 psi. Installation wasn't bad, about an hour and a half to install.
Tkuhstos
7/1/2024
The Firestone helper springs have worked flawlessly. I love them. They make my life easier. I have them installed on my 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT.
Kit was incomplete the gold bolts in kit didn’t have enough threads had to put a lot of washers under them to get them to tighten up pain in the butt to tighten top nut and tighten bottom bolt the screws with the metric Allen wrench holes not big enough and standard Allen wrench to lose so make it hard to tighten need to use different screws instead of Allen screws
Craig
8/27/2024
It worked fine till I traded in and got a 2500 guess it’s still workin
Second set of Firestone Ride-Rite air bags, they do a great job! First set I’ve had for over 10 years, never any issues. They make balancing our truck so easy when towing our camp trailer.
Kit came with incorrect fasteners bolts were short when using required shim and wrong thread nuts. Very challenging installation. Could no see problems until half way thru proscess.a real pain.
After a year of use including 3 months in Alaska, these Air helper springs have worked flawlessly. They give me just enough lift to level out my truck with over 800lbs of trailer tongue weight and 500lbs in the bed. I have individual adjustments on my Ride-rites and I haven't needed to make the pressure different from side to side. I'm now considering adding an adjustable air system that can be operated from inside the truck.
the airbags have held up very nicely over a year. this is my second pair on two vehicles and will not be without them. This system is redundancy for your current springs and should not replace them. I really appreciate them when going over a bump like railroad tracks, they absorb the shock nicely.
This kit was fairly straightforward to install and works well. It did have incorrectly sized fastener hardware that caused me to need to make a couple trips to my local hardware store for the correct bolts.
Awesome springs. I have the stock Rancho shocks on my Silverado and they are terrible. I then added Timbren helper springs and towing was better but the daily ride was terrible and the slapping when the spring met the axle was horrible. Finally I added the Firestone bags and OMG what a terrific all around ride. While towing and while daily driving the ride is the way the truck should be from the factory! Install was about an hour and a half and was/is pretty straight forward. I opted not to use the cheap valve bracket and went through the bumper for a clean look that was easy to access.
Derek
10/8/2023
Product is still fantastic BUT you must know that these bags do leak and I have a reminder monthly to air them back up to the 10-15lbs that I prefer when unloaded. I also removed the push on connectors and opted for DOT approved type valves and the leaking is now minimized. I opted to go with manual vs an air pump for simplicity sake and do understand that a pump would eliminate the need for monitoring.
Mike L.
10/25/2023
It's good. Hard wear is really bad. Bolts under sized and way to short, could not get full nut on bolts.so I used my own.bracket are very well built and fit nicely. All said, I would buy ot again.wish I would have taken photos but to late now.
James
1/25/2024
after a 3 month trip across the US into alaska across many rough roads Im very glad to have installed these. they really take a lot of abuse and helped the truck carry the7000lb load. I stand by my comment of the hardware the bolts should be upgraded to a larger size. that being said I would strongly recommend these to anyone looking to upgrade suspension on a truck
Item worked as promised. Installation instructions were easy to follow.
Very easy instructions and went on easy. Do not hesitate to purchase. No drilling or modification needed like other brands.
Package arrived quickly. All of the required parts arrived. I will be installing the bags next week with an update on fitment and quality. Looking forward to using them.
Easy site to navigate. Great selection of products. A pleasure doing business with you again!
Kevin G.
6/29/2024
After trailering for a year, the air springs have worked flawlessly: a smooth, level ride. Definitely worth the investment for ride quality and safety.
What a difference this had made in towing our camper!! Easy installation, easy operation. Highly recommend this product.
You can not let the rear axle hang with these installed. Do not lift on a 2 post lift.
Did not fit 2024 gmc sierra slt
Katrina D.
6/14/2024
That is odd, I see that this kit is a confirmed fit for the 2024 GMC Sierra 1500. Can you please elaborate on what is making it not fit?
Won't fit the GMC 2023 LZ0 Diesel!! I had the Ride-Rites on my 2013 Tacoma, and they worked great! I recently purchased a 2023 GMC Sierra 1500 with the DuraMax 3.0 Turbo diesel LZ0 engine. The air bag kit F2609 does not fit this vehicle, even though Firestones WEB site indicated it did. The problem is the upper bracket and airbag contact the exhaust pipe. After calling Firestone, the product specialist knew of this information and are now updating their WEB site. After etrailer confirmed my findings with Firestone about this issue, everything will be returned, and they too will update their WEB site too :(
I'm giving etrailer's Customer Support 5 stars, and Firestone -20 stars for not keeping their WEB site current and knowing about this issue!
All went well with delivery and install ation.
Delivery was as expected. An inventory of the parts was complete. Packaging of the brackets would have been better. The coating was missing in several areas, due to the fittings not being individually protected. I have not installed the airbags.
Came on time as they said check contents and found bag was open but all parts were in the box.
Rides poorly when not pulling a load
Perfect fitment! This kit really thought of everything. No hardware i didn't need nor that I felt was missing. I lifted the truck from the frame to give myself more room while working on the ground but even if I hadn't it would have been fine. The only caveat, it's time to go fishing through your junk drawer for all those IKEA Allen wrenches you couldn't dare to throw away, all the hardware consist of Allen head screws. Which is fine if you never plan on removing them again and it's pretty hard to over torque and break a bolt.
So far working good haven’t pull anything yet. Installed fairly easy. Had to move a brake line. Otherwise happy with it although the bracket that holds the Schrader valve was busted, hoping they will send me a new one. I will.
Everything came as shipped and came fast. Parts are high quality and fit as specified. All (4) of the 1-1/2 screws were too short and barely reached through the lower brackets (another 1/4" would be nice). Combined with the fact that there were also several things in the way when trying to put the nuts on to mount the lower bracket (2022 Silverado LTD) it turned the job into a much longer job. Success however was achieved. Haven't tested it with a load yet but when I aired them up to test for leaks it lifted the tail a lot.
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Christopher
11/12/2024
Its been over a year and these have worked flawlessly. Towing has improved, stability is better and my unusual tire wear is gone because the weight is distrubuted correctly. The only thing I dont like is the way the Schrader valve mounts... they could improve the design and eliminate the zip ties, make the bracket a claim shell with a bolt and it would be so much more robust.