Here's Your Clever Solution to One of the Most COMMON Jeep Problems!

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[@Good-luck-Jonathan]

For sure going to buy one for my Jeep gladiator diesel, but I’m not going to delete the spare tire gonna run the tank in the trunk

[@tfcooks]

I have a suggestion for AccuAir. One button auto leveling for the overland/rooftop tent community. It would be great to just pull into camp and not have to stack rocks under your tires to level out your rig. PS: I know it can be done manually but auto leveling would be a neat trick.

[@rogerj412]

Honestly this one of the best comments. An actual suggestion to improve a product, it's just refreshing.

[@anthonymrskipt9252]

Agree. I said the same thing to the Accuair guy I spoke to at their booth at EJS. I think they’re well-aware of that being something people would want. Hope to see that soon.

[@paranormalwheelers]

Totally agree

[@JTAbq70]

I have had the system installed in my Gladiator Rubicon for several months now and am very happy with it. The initial expense was high but when I compared a name brand lift with the rock slider automatic steps my wife wanted, the difference was negligible. I use #1 setting in my daily driving because it is easier for me to get in and out, #2 for wheeling, and I did Hell’s Revenge in Moab last month and used #3 on some of the steps which kept me from hitting the belly or the tail. I loved having the extra clearance when I needed it but don’t have to live with it every day. Finally, I still use it as a truck on occasion and the other day I picked up a bunch of plywood and lumber and the bed leveled itself. I looking forward to seeing how it does whenI have it loaded up with camping gear this Summer. Now I wonder if Jeep will give me hassle on my warranty since I had it installed by an independent shop before the program was announced.

[@bernelnery2191]

Your warranty is gone 😢, does not need to be air lift mod to loose warranty , has to be Jeep Official Installer like AEV, yup learn it the hard way 😢😢😢😢

[@richfarfugnuven6308]

​@bernelnery2191 it's a loose warranty? What do I do for a firm warranty?

[@philipparana9225]

Problem with this system is a jeep is solid axle, if you raise the truck the track bar and drag links need to be adjusted to get the body centerlines in the axle so with this system wheb you air up your cab is gonna be pulled to the driver's side prob 10-20 mm and at the lowest to the passenger side. Also the wheel won't be clocked properly

[@JTAbq70]

My wheel is straight on #1 or #2, I was worried that it wouldn’t be. If I am on #3 I am not on a flat road or driving straight so I haven’t noticed. I guess I could try it and see.

[@CJ-rk5eg]

Becoming an official OEM partner is a real coup. When I saw the video about it last year, I was skeptical due to the price and reliability of a system that was not OEM designed. Now the reliability and legitimacy question is answered.

[@JarmelSingsKaraoke]

🔥 Happy Friday 🔥

[@wesleyconn620]

cmoon my 20 year old range rover has it and so does the lr3 lr4 nothing new issues are onlyreliability :) the best thing about air is that it always has the wheel pushing down even under articulation with even weight distribution rather than the low wheel having less pressure on the ground it stays the same

[@shawnshing614]

Dear tommy. Thank you so share this knowledge with us today. Old you please tell us , did Acura Air suspension work on “jeep rubicon 2014 hard rock edition ?

[@nothingtoseehere1260]

That's Awesome! I want it.

[@WW-wf8tu]

These ads brought to you by AccuAir. Where they coin the phrase "Crawl Control". Because nobody in vehicle history has ever used that term for oh idk, a button in a vehicle that makes the vehicle go real slow w/out using the gas or brakes. What an idea. I think other manufactures should make a button and label it CC. Just a crazy thought. 🤔🧐

[@joseluissantoyo6747]

Can this replace the current air suspension on a Ram truck??

[@dfwvtxman]

I had helper bags on a truc and when they worked they worked well but they always seemed to leak.

[@brawn800]

I'd be interested in a Tacoma, Land Cruiser, 4Runner variant. Hope you guys have success and expand the availability.

[@doublebackagain4311]

Great question on the line/pump repair kit, but what if you lose one of the 'springs' out in the middle of nowhere & that corner sags to the bumpstop?

[@tfcooks]

Same as if you break an axle or tie rod. You send someone into town for parts and fix it on the trail.

[@keewatin427]

What wheels are those?

[@johnchamberlain7738]

I have a question rhat I hope your expert advice might help me and others. What truck brand and/or truck model has the best headlights for night driving?

[@djtesseract3064]

None do! You gotta get aftermarket lights and ENSURE they use the Cree branded LED emitters which are high output and long lasting. Also remember to get upper roof mounted light bars with 100,000 lumens output. Make sure an in-cabin controlled lightbar cover is installed which will slide down n cover the lightbar completely when on-road since some states don't allow lightbars to be uncovered when doing highway or city driving. The entore package is called a hideaway lightvar!

[@thebestskibum8346]

Off Road Only has been doing this for Jeeps since the early 2000s

[@einfeldt777]

👍👍 bring it, use it, abuse it, and have fun. What a great way for you guys to test a new product, hopefully you guys get it back for more videos 👍🤗

[@wednesdayweld564]

Who makes those rad wheels and tires?

[@samartz]

Had my airbags blow on my Toyota Prado, never again having airbags on a 4wd

[@fritty9927]

Wonder what all that does to mpg.

[@xpanza]

it would be nice to see accuair in Moab

[@doublebackagain4311]

Those rear swaybar mounts on the chopped JT look like they are begging to be destroyed lol. What is that thing mounted on the top of the bedrail?

[@thomasrossi31]

High lift jack. I think it’s made by ARB.

[@BearMacTX]

Not interested in Jeep unless they can give us a V8 option without charging an extra $30k. No way a basic 392 costs that much more than the POS 3.6L. At most maybe $10k more like some diesels cost in 1 ton trucks, which I can see as a justified increase in price, but a 392 is not as complex as a huge turbo diesel. Make it make sense lol.

[@bendino9016]

392 def costs way more. Look at any crate motor v8

[@robertwood7208]

Exclusivity attracts higher end buyers. Jeep is trying to position themselves at the bottom and top of the market. Offering the 392 in an affordable package reduces the perceived value and exclusiveness of the 392. They want more Mercedes G wagon buyers. On the other hand, they also need to consider CAFE standards. Most people would pay a 10k premium for a Sahara or Rubicon with a v8 option. This would murder the average MPG on Wrangler sales similar to what happened with the Raptor and F150 sales.

[@Seventh7Art]

40 Inch tires... but how many inches of ground clearance do you get from the diff cases?

[@EricBuenoo]

Just do the math

[@AoW7]

6:14 my dealer says it’s not offered in their system.

[@ClassicSteelRC]

Just curious!.....I kept hearing that it automatically goes to full ride height at 25MPH. Can I manually override that feature in case I WANT to ride at a lower height on the freeway or open road? Basically, can I CHOOSE to have a lower center of gravity at faster speeds or must I ride with the highest center of gravity?

[@lowtech_1]

You can't use full height over 25mph.

[@JTAbq70]

On mine, contrary to what they say in the video 1 or 2 can be driven at any speed. 3 automatically lowers over 25. If you drop it to the bump stops it will automatically raise over 25. I leave mine on 1 for everything except off roading. Prefer the lower center of gravity and the ease of getting in and out.

[@TJY2K]

Badass Technology

[@robertbean330]

This is a nice system and I would love to have it on my JT. The biggest problem I see in getting the 6 to 7 thousand dollars it costs.

[@nix4644]

I don't do off-roading so I'm going to ask what might be a dumb question to some of you out there. I noticed that the front differential didn't move when he was raising and lowering the suspension. So my question is, how do you gain ground clearance by raising the chassis if one of the lowest points, i.e. the differential, doesn't raise as well? Thanks in advance for any response.

[@idabrit]

Depends what kind of off-roading. If you’re on a heavily rutted dirt road then you’re right, the pumpkin is the bottom line for clearance. But if you’re on a mountain road full of variously sized rocks (more often the case, particularly with Moab-type contexts) you pick a line so that obstacles pass under, not between, your wheels, and then having the clearance to come down off of a rock and not crunch your chassis is what matters.

[@tfcooks]

It increases approach, departure and breakover angles.

[@videowsatcher]

As noted above angles. Also, wading depth. The diff clearance is the limitation of live axles. With independent suspension, this is not a problem. However, the reason live axles are preferred is greater wheel articulation and, most importantly, the durability of the driveline compared to independent suspension. By default, independent suspension cv joints and other connect components that carry power are under stress of not only power but significant physical movement. This is further exacerbated by lift. The angles created by a lift create heightened tension of the cvs and they have a further increased tendency to break in harder off roading, particularly if you are moving beyond 1.5 to 2 inches; there are diff drop kits to address some of this for larger lifts but still the issues will remain. On road live axles are far less comfortable and worsen the handling, all else equal. As always its about compromise. The holy grail in terms of balance I would say are independent portal axles where the axle drives through the top as opposed to the centre of the wheel hub allowing significant lift whilst retaining standard geometry and, avoiding the diff clearance issue at the same time. They are difficult to develop and engineer and which is why you don't see many of them and, of the portal axle options out there, it is mostly limited to solid axle vehicles; they are 3 to 5+ times the price of a lift.

[@djtesseract3064]

High hub drive systems which drive the wheel via an upper placed gearing system is best. Another poster called it a portal axle drive system. It's like what is used on Humvee military trucks which have 20 inches of ground clearance.

[@ynb3a9y4life]

Can you do Dune bashing with that system???

[@hotshotsunnyz]

You don't need to have a lift for dune bashing. It could be counter productive considering the added height.

[@richardmatos5267]

Does the system work with the Broncos?

[@xanderjackson8518]

I wonder how it holds up to desert running driving conditions. My Mojave opened a world i don't want to leave.

[@Evan_Land]

Totally would buy if my Jeep was my daily driver.

[@ml9867]

Hey Jeep experts, is this a based on a Gladiator? It looks unusual to me, especially the bed.

[@disophisis]

He very briefly mentioned it's a bobbed gladiator. They kinda glossed over it.

[@ml9867]

@@disophisis did they make the bed shorter?

[@stevenpeterson7234]

​@@ml9867 Yes

[@doublebackagain4311]

Looks like a stock Gladiator cab + a custom bed. At the 14:06 mark you can see the flush-mount tail lights, exposed hinges & latches, also the tailgate is flat. Not stock JT.

[@CloneCommands]

The bobbed bed is from Motobilt

[@zcon]

The front fascia looks like it’s melting

[@TwistedOff]

👍

[@bosse641]

Can you buy a kit to transform your 4 door Jeep to a 2 door pickup? What about a Gladiator kit to make it into a 2 door long bed pickup ?

[@oklahomawheeling4x4]

6 grand is very expensive for some airbags. Most suspension kits that cost that or above like Evo is an entire suspension with Control arms coils over, etc. I dont think it's comparable.

[@Doncan0823]

I remember when TFL bragged about being completely independent reviewers.

[@mwdeters]

Competition is forcing TFL to make commercials of their videos despite what Roman says. The quality of content is declining at TFL as well. Great bunch of guys but their videos have become generic.

[@deucedaprodeuca]

@3:19 he said something that blew Tommy's mind. "When I go off-roading, I just take the sway bar off. I just take the links off". Simple solution to not having a sway bar disconnect. It takes 10-15 minutes to do if you're a novice. Just take it off.

[@05EVORS]

Or just leave it off and learn to be happy w/o it on daily

[@blakemarchand6650]

Why get Acuair if there’s things out there like Fox,King, bilstein, etc

[@tyh6243]

TFL has become a paid infomercial.

[@XXPS60]

A WHINEY one at that. To them it's whomever pays has the best product.

[@CJ-rk5eg]

Hey….it’s a business that needs to make money!

[@tfcooks]

Blame KZbin's unfriendly content creator profit sharing policies. They have no choice if they want to stay in business.

[@ffl1409]

Oh no! A business is trying to make money. The travesty!!

[@M.G.jun.]

Absolutely exaggerated, far too expensive, far too complex. And then the 40 incher!? As a driver, should you actually be able to do something, or do you just want to drive over everything? Then activate crawl control and I can read the newspaper at the same time. Where is the challenge if everything is done by the machine?

[@ffl1409]

The number of people that don't understand the concept of "sponsored" is mind boggling. Probably the same people that click links at bottom of websites thinking its news.

[@bendmacmanufacturing2744]

Paid info but seems nice to have , one benefit is if you are Uber driver and pickup seniors !!!

[@onenikkione]

Uber in a Jeep??

[@ricksmith7659]

Air up for offroad air down to carve canyon roads. Very cool but unreliability is what air ride has always been.

[@AtleBjerkestrand]

It is not like the old Range Rover tech and then he explains that the system is just as the Range Rovers in the 90’s😁 But it is cool that jeep have this and it is much faster than old Range Rover suspension.

[@oklahomawheeling4x4]

Technology usually means very expensive. Reliability of all these fancy technologies usually doesn't pan out. I doubt that this stuff will hold up rock crawling for very long. From my own experience, simple is better.

[@05EVORS]

Leaf Springs party harder! No 40s in the 80s? They were on 44" Boggers back then lol

[@Olddahg]

Who wants to wait that long to drop

[@eyvindr]

Land Rover calls the parts in my LR3 'air springs' too. Don't see how they're that different.

[@skiahh]

Why no 2 door air kit?

[@mwdeters]

These videos should be labeled as ads.

[@zachconroy1443]

The video literally opens up with "brought to you by Accuair"

[@mwdeters]

​@@zachconroy1443 "Labeled as ads"...Nowhere in the thumbnail does it say t's sponsored. It's a commercial.

[@tfcooks]

Blame KZbin's unfriendly content creator profit sharing policies. They have no choice if they want to stay in business. And it says it's sponsored right at the start that's what "brought to you by Accuair" means.

[@berney55]

How much did they TFL for this commercial?😂

[@MM-gm2yk]

Pass

[@M.G.jun.]

Absolutely exaggerated, far too expensive, far too complex. And then the 40 incher!? As a driver, should you actually be able to do something, or do you just want to drive over everything? Then activate crawl control and I can read the newspaper at the same time. Where is the challenge if everything is done by the machine?

[@MikeCameramike]

over the years Tommy more and more like an actor than the honest youtuber..

[@nothingtoseaheardammit]

Make it for the H1/HMMWV and you'll sell a ton.

[@GearUpind]

I think Toyota stopped sponsoring TfL

[@deucedaprodeuca]

Just say $7k..... "$6,999"..... Geez. When I see companies do this, I lose trust for them. Trust your product, not the marketing. Me personally, when I buy something that's not priced a penny less than the next number, I smile and I pay the extra penny, knowing I wasn't hoodwinked into looking at it. "How much is the burger?" SIX BUCKS. See how easy that is? "Five ninety-nine"... GTFOH 😂

[@kennethjinkins8967]

a junk festival

[@davidmiller3917]

C'mon guys, how many of these videos are you going to put out. It's very redundant.

[@herbwheeler4470]

You lose articulation.

[@TJY2K]

You can clearly see it lose no articulation if you watch the video.

[@ralphvalkenhoff2887]

Enjoying our beautiful country like this is in jeopardy. The EPA has gone rogue with their land grab in the name of conservation. At the pace they’re on, we will lose our freedoms of enjoying all these kinds of off road activities with friends and family. We can get together with Blue Ribbon, a group of like minded folks who love to enjoy the beautiful outdoors, and stop their radical agenda. Join now!

[@78jroll]

Thats a $7k system, Yikes!

[@dlofton123]

you guys are really trying to sell us on this but we don’t want it.

[@garysarratt1]

“We” who? Don’t buy it! I don’t want or need it, but I know I don’t speak for everybody.

[@Rogger_50]

You guys are selling out. Unsubscribing.

[@dieseljunky8505]

Who has $7k to spend on a lift????? It's absolutely ridiculous.

[@chadgraber4575]

It's much more than that. Not saying I'm running out to buy this setup anytime soon, but it offers a lot for your money. If you're someone that just wants a budget 3 inch lift for $1500, then this clearly isn't for you. But this offers so much more than just lift, hence the cost.

[@doublebackagain4311]

And don't think stock axles are gonna hold up to 40's for very long so make sure you budget for those...

[@chadgraber4575]

@@doublebackagain4311 Truth. Need 60s or something

[@chadgraber4575]

​@@mpeugeot Next product TFL will be slinging lol

[@dieseljunky8505]

​@chadgraber4575. Im not saying it isn't cool. Im just saying it's overpriced. Reminds me of the anylevel kit for Ford. The $7k price tag does nothing for the average guy off roading on the weekends. Im sure lots of pavement warriors will love this.