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Installation: Road Armor Shock Absorbing Equalizer Kit on a 2022 Grand Design Imagine Travel Trailer
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Hi there, Grand Design owners. Today on your 2022 Grand Design Imagine trailer, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to replace your factory equalizers with Road Armor equalizers from Lippert. To assist us with this installation, we're also gonna be using Lippert's wet bolt kit as well as some bronze bushings from Dexter. And this is what our Road Armor looks like when it's installed. We can see it is a replacement equalizer that's going to get rid of your old one, and our new Road Armor here has rubber dampeners inside to absorb a lot of the impacts. Also, your road armor will come equipped with bronze bushings so that way you can have a wet bolt set up to extend the life of your components.
Here we have the factory equalizer for comparison. These have the Never Fail plastic bushings, which, they do fail, you can see this one here is pretty beat up right there and that's also pretty beat up. So, bronze bushings, now if you are consistent in lubricating your bronze bushings, they're gonna last a lot longer than these plastic Never Fail type bushings. These are self-lubricating though, so if you don't maintain your trailer often, you want to just kind of forget it, you're better off sticking with the plastic ones. But, if you wanted things to last longer, and you're real particular about maintenance, then I would highly recommend going with bronze and wet bolts.
Now, one of the big differences though, besides this being a bronze setup, is that dampening material that's in there. And you can see our original equalizer is just a solid piece of steel, there is no real dampening whatsoever. And when our equalizer's in place, let's say you go over a big bump, well, when you hit a pothole or we're gonna say it's a speed bump. When you hit a speed bump, this is our front axle, it's gonna hit the bump first, well it's gonna go up. Well when this goes up, it's gonna pull this up.
When it pulls that up, it pushes down on this axle, and all those forces are getting transferred through your axles. Then after you hit the next bump, that's gonna go down, it's gonna do the opposite thing. But all the force is transferred directly from one axle to the other into your chassis giving it a pretty rough ride. Our Road Armor here has dampening material in between so when this axle goes up, a lot of that force that would be transferred through our suspension system into the trailer is absorbed into the rubber there, so there's less of that transfer to this axle. Now, they're not completely independent.
The optimal setup, I would say for a trailer, would be Roadmaster's Comfort Ride system, it has two fully independent systems with shock absorbers and it is definitely a very premium option, so it is gonna be a little bit more costly than, like, a setup like this, but the performance is significantly higher. But compared to a standard equalizer, this is gonna be a nice upgrade over the standard one, you're gonna get some dampening in there, everything here is a heavier duty component. And this is a '22 trailer, it's still '22, so, you know, it hasn't even made it through the year and these bushings are already pretty beat up. So, this is definitely something that's gonna last you several years, again, as long as you maintain grease in your components, and the absorption in there is gonna help extend the life of the rest of your suspension system. A lot of these big heavy trailers, it's not uncommon to see broken leaf spring hangers. Now on this one you can see it's reinforced, but they're not always reinforced, and this is something that's gonna help save those things from taking so much brunt of the force with that dampener in there. So it is definitely a great upgrade for your trailer. I would highly recommend, if you are performing this upgrade, to also get Lippert's Road Armor wet bolt kit, that's gonna come with these heavy duty shackles. They are gonna be a little bit longer shackle to compensate for the different dimensions of the Road Armor here, 'cause they are slightly different dimensions than your factory one, you can see that there. So that'll help compensate for that so that way your trailer still rides like it's supposed to. But it does not come with any bushings, so, your Road Armor has bushings pre-installed
This is perhaps the best e-trailer how-to video ever! Great job!
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I love you explanation of all of your installs!!
Thank you, we appreciate the kind words!!
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Great video - many thanks
We're happy you enjoyed it, thank you!
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When installing the wet bolts, make sure the tiny hole (where the grease comes out) is facing the 3 or 9 o'clock position. Out of 14 wet bolts installed one year ago, 3 no longer take grease. I will be removing them for inspection.
Good tip, thank you!
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It’s strange, most of the installs seem to put the zerc fittings on the inside. Makes more since to have them on the outside like you did it, in my opinion.
Truth!
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Makes it easier to spot a nut coming loose. You should be doing that way more often than you grease them.
Are these universal or do you need to order per wheelbase?
Will this fit either a 33" or 35" wheelbase? does the equalizer hanger have a minimum size requirement? i.e. 4" long by 3" wide. I'm comparing it with the MORryde CRE3000 that does have these requirements on there Qualification Guide
How many miles to grease again?