etrailer | In-Depth Review of the Dexter E-Z Flex Suspension Kit
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Today on our fifth wheel trailer, we'll be installing the Dexter Axel EZ Flex Triple Suspension System Kit, with five and five-eighths inch equalizers, part number K71-656-00. Now, the reason you want a set-up like this is on our case we're replacing something that's damaged, so we're replacing with a better quality component, which will provide is with a much smoother ride when we're going down the road, provide us with 100% equalization, and will take out a lot of the roughness while we're going down the road. Here's what our kit consists of. We have our front equalizers here, which would go between our front and our middle axle. Then we have our rear equalizer here, which goes between our rear and middle axle. We have your bolts and brackets here, which will connect our leaf springs to our equalizers. As you notice, they all have zerk fittings in here, so we can grease them to extend the life of our bushings inside.
Same with the bolts that attach our leaf springs directly to the frame on our trailer. Obviously we have the back side here, which connects everything like so. Also included are new bushings to go inside our release springs and new bolts and nuts to hang our equalizers onto the frame of our trailer. You may notice that these are greasable here too, as well, so it will extend the life of the bushing inside here. This resilient rubber core that we have here in the middle of the equalizer is unaffected by harsh weather conditions such as salt water, and it will give us that smooth ride that we're looking for. It will take up some of that shock and abuse that otherwise would be transferred directly from our suspension of our trailer to the contents of our trailer.
This will take up some of that and provide us an added sense of protection, so whatever we're hauling in our trailer won't be damaged or affected as much by the harsh roads we're driving on. Now this kit has a very simple installation with robust components. Now that we've gone over the features of our Dexter kit, we'll show you how to install it. As you can see here, the harsh roads that this trailer was subjected to actually caused the leaf spring to rip out of the hanger here on the factory equalizer. We'll start by removing this bolt here on our leaf spring. Same up here.
We'll do this one in the back, as well. Now we can knock this bolt out. Now we'll drive out the original factory bushings that are in our leaf springs. Okay. Now we'll take our new bushing and get it started.
I'm going to use an old bolt here with a nut on it to help drive it in. We'll do the same for the back. Now that we have the rear axle taken care of on our passenger side of our trailer, we'll do the same on our driver's side of our trailer, and repeat the same process for the other two axles. Now that we have all of our bushings replaced in our leaf springs, we'll start with the forward part of the front axle. We'll slide it up into our hanger and we'll install it with our bolt here that has a zerk fitting. The zerks will go on the outside edge. Now it's a good idea before we drive our bolts in all the way to put a thin layer of grease on it. Now we can drive it in all the way with our socket; you don't want to beat on this bolt directly, because the zerk fitting will get damaged and you can't use it. Let's go stick the socket over it. Drive it in. We'll talk our nut, stick on the back side of the bolt, start it loosely for right now. We'll just snug it up a little bit. I'll torque it once everything's been installed. Now we'll remove our equalizer here from the factory that's in the front. Stick our wrench on there in the back. Drive the bolt out and remove the equalizer. Now take our equalizer that's for our front axle. There's an arrow that points toward the front, so you want to make sure that this facing the front of our trailer. We'll go like this, stick it into place, take our bolt, slide it through. We'll thread the gold nut on the inside of the bolt. Get this started a little bit. Take our hammer and knock the bolt in the rest of the way. We have our bolt all the way in now, we'll tighten the nut up on the back side. Now that we have this snugged up just enough, we can carry on with the installation. We'll torque everything once we're done, again. Now we'll take off our rear equalizer. This has no special arrow to warrant it. You can go in either way. It's exactly the same, both sides. Slide it up, put the bolt through, tap it in with our
Great looking setup there. I was going to gripe about too much grease, but others beat me to it. There should never be a blob of grease left on an inlet fitting. The fitting should be clean and with a plastic cap over it. And facing back, not front. Really good looking equipment. Next time I rebuild, I will try yours.
Excelent instructional vidio my good Man. You made it look so easy. With light hammer work this install was a breze, not like most----good thing you had that deluxe lift---makes things plenty safe.. A good grease gun allways makes a neat job.
Issues are you using the impact on the bolt head to disassemble, wallowing out the hanger hole. Now new knurled bolt has less to grab and will no doubt spin in it's hole. Second is , grease was not flowing into that equalizer zerk @ 6:20. It all pilled up outside the grease fitting,
Hey man please change that grease gun nozzle , you are wasting all the grease in those fittings😠
Awesome video, GREAT camera work and very good instruction. What would be the timeline for swapping out the suspension on a 2 axle unit?
Wow, that's hard to say. For a shop with the proper tools, know-how, and if everything goes right it could be as quick as a couple hours. More realistically, for a DIY'er you're looking at probably twice that. More depending on how much fight the old system puts up to remove.
does this installation affect any other stuff like alignment of axel's? I imagine no, since everything gets bolted back into the same spot.
Mite be a good idea to show this bloke give him some know how on using a grease gun don’t be stingy buy him a flexible hose he’s not actually getting grease in where it’s ment to go
It’s all on the out side
Apart from that not bad 5 out of 10
Less he does not know to use a wrench on the nut
should the trailer's weight not be on the suspension for the final tightening of the bolts?
So how does it ride compare to Mor Ryde and the other very similar products?
1:40 1) saltwater is not a "weather condition" 2) other than a hurricane or oceanic flood, what "harsh weather conditions" should one expect their RV to experience which might cause saltwater exposure to its suspension?
Winter storms bring ice and snow and salt is put down to melt it.
Living on the coast in Florida, I can attest that everything rusts down here, hurricanes and floods are not required. Doesn't matter if it gets submerged or not - the "salty breezes" are real. Park your vehicle overnight anywhere near the coast and you will find a light coating of salt on it in the morning.
@@denali9449 @Ruckus Bird
Your points are well received but again, what "weather conditions" other than a hurricane or oceanic flood should once expect to experience which might cause saltwater exposure to the suspension of an RV?
@@mwilliamshs Salt in the air here is as much a weather condition as the arid weather conditions found in Arizona or the Arctic. If you want to slice frogs hairs - so be it, I do not wish to indulge in your sport. Good Night.
@@denali9449 salty air is not saltwater
EG You cannot down in salty air
Can this be used on wide stance axels, I have a coachman 248RBS
I looked up your trailer and I believe the spacing between the bolts that attach the leaf springs to the equalizer is going to be 5 5/8". If this is the case you can use # K71-652-00. If the spacing is longer than that we have a kit for 7 3/4" spacing and that is # K71-653-00. Both of these kits are designed for tandem axle trailers. I have provided the links below to both of these kits.
www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Leaf-Spring-Suspension/Dexter-Axle/K71-652-00.html
www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Leaf-Spring-Suspension/Dexter-Axle/K71-653-00.html
Great video but get yourself a Lock-n-Lube grease chuck.
Thank you for the feedback! We will look into this!
www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Leaf-Spring-Suspension/Dexter-Axle/K71-656-00.html
Instead of using your fingers to grease those bolts, you could use a small paint brush and be a lot cleaner job.
Steve Winter - good lord, for real. Let the man do man work.
what nobody wears gloves?
my six year old does cleaner work than that.