Enjoy the smooth ride with sport-Rite air helper springs. These revolutionary air springs were developed to maintain a level vehicle while offering the best possible ride characteristics under any load condition.
Maximize your vehicle's suspension performance with Firestone air helper springs. Sport-Rite air helper springs utilize a tapered style air spring that will support up to 3,000 lbs. per set. With dynamic ride characteristics, hauling and towing control are vastly improved. Make your vehicle a total performer with Firestone Sport-Rite air helper springs.
Sport-Rite air helper springs can also be installed on most light trucks, SUVs and vans. Sport-Rite air helper springs are installed between the frame of the vehicle and the suspension, providing load support through the use of air pressure. Each application is specifically designed to maximize the safe load carrying capacity, stability, and ride quality of the vehicle.
Overall, Sport-Rite air helper springs will greatly improve the ride of your vehicle with quality parts, ease of installation, and peace of mind. Everything is included with your air helper spring kit for a quick, and easy installation. Brackets, air springs, hardware, air line, and separate valves for manual inflation.
Background - I am 63 year old lifelong mechanic. This is the 4th set of air springs I have installed, but the first Firestones, the others were AirLift. I found this to be by far the most difficult install I have done. The 1-2 hour install time is totally unrealistic. The design requires bolts through a plate that sits above the frame member. The driver side unit is very difficult to access and I needed to get my wife's skinny arms in there to help hold one side while I got nuts threaded etc. I have some engineering background and I believe Firestone could have done a much better job designing these for easy installation. On the positive, these seem to have better performance than the AirLifts I've used. By that, I mean AirLifts can be very sensitive to pressure. In my old 98 Toyo Taco, just putting the minimum pressure in made the rear end very stiff. I would say that was true on all the AirLifts, even at minimum pressure they stiffened the ride of an empty vehicle. They were fine w
