Project LBMC: Kelderman Air Ride

Testing It

After setting the desired ride height, we were then ready to start our testing of LBMC's new Kelderman air ride kit. We took the truck out and drove it for a few days, and noticed the ride was greatly improved. Then came the towing.

One great feature that this kit has is the ability to drop the truck and raise it in the cab, which is perfect for people who tow a lot. When backing up to a trailer you can drop the rear of the truck, back under the trailer then raise the truck back up, and there's no need to fight with the trailer jacks as much. If you have spring loaded or adjustable feet on your trailer you can simply raise the truck to max height, set the feet, drop the truck as low as it will go and pull out from under the trailer. This is far less messing around with loading and unloading of the trailers. Before the install, when towing, the truck would jerk or have a tendency to feel as though it was lunging if you hit a bump in the road. After the Kelderman was installed, we noticed that LBMC no longer had that lunging feeling. The truck handled better with and without a load and no longer felt like you were driving something that required a kidney belt to drive. This was a great upgrade for project LBMC.

Overall we should have had Precision Bodyline do this upgrade when they did the long bed conversion. It would have saved a lot of headache, back ache and Advil. This is just what we needed on this truck.