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Hi there, Chevy owners. Today on your 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 3500, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install Torklift's StableLoad Suspension Enhancement System. These are available either in a stainless steel, which we'll be showing off today or a black powder coat finish. And this is what our StableLoads look like when they're installed. There are extra plates that are designed to go between your lower overload spring and your leaf spring stack, which will cause your overload spring here to be applying additional pressure onto your suspension sooner than it would be before.This is going to provide you with more support here in the back. It's going to help lift up your vehicle some if you are sagging down due to heavy loads here in the back.
And you have the option to turn it on and off whenever you like. There's a pin located here that keeps it either in the engaged or disengaged position. We're currently engaged. We're going to slide that pin out of there. And then if you can turn it by hand, you can go ahead and do so.Most of the time when your vehicles on the ground, though, this is going to be pretty hard.
We've got the vehicle on a lift, which gives us additional clearance here so we can easily do it there. But most of the time on the ground, you're going to need to place a 3/8ths ratchet inside the square hole there and then you can easily use your ratchet to disengage and reengage your StableLoads whenever you need to.Now that we've got them disengaged, we're just going to re-inserts the pin back down in the hole to hold it in place. And with them disengaged, you can see here that they're not going to provide it any contact in-between our lower overload spring and our leaf spring. So we're basically right back to our factory suspension with simply just slide that guy out of the way. This is nice if you don't want to have the stiffer suspension on your truck when you're not hauling a heavy load.Because if you have this engaged, when you're not hauling anything, you're likely going to notice a pretty stiff rear suspension system.
It's designed to help support your heavy loads. So you can use your overload springs more efficiently than you we're before. You'll receive a set for the front and the rear of your overload spring for each side of the vehicle. All in all, it's a pretty quick and easy installation. Why don't you follow along with me and we'll show you how to get it installed.We'll begin our installation by lifting up the rear of our vehicle.
We're here on a lift, but if you're doing this at home, you want to make sure you chock your front wheels and then lift by the frame until your wheels come off the ground. That's going to maximize the gap you have between your leaf spring and the lower overload spring here so you can get your components installed. You can use your floor jack to lift it up and then make sure you put some jack stands underneath the frame to support it. Once you've got it up, the rubber piece here at the back, we can just push that out, just give it a little push to start it, and then just use my needle nose to pull it up out of there.There's also one on the other side of the overload spring there in the front. You want to pull that one out as well. Now, if you didn't have the little rubber bushings here and there's no hole here, then you'll need to drill out a hole in that location. As long as you've got the holes there or you've already drilled it out, next thing we're going to do is measure the thickness of our spring. You'll need to know that and we want to measure three inches back from the end here. We're going to go in three inches and measure the thickness.Also at the same point, we want to measure the gap between our lower overload spring and our leaf spring. We're going to take the same measurements at the front of our overload spring, going three inches back from the edge just like we did back here. If you do have to drill a hole, you're going to go one inch back from the edge, center the hole, and then drill it with a 7/16ths drill bit. And the same here in the front.Now we've taken all of our measurements, we can use that information to assemble our stack. This is our lower bracket here. And this here, this hole is going to line up with the hole that we have in our lower overload spring. And we can put our assembly on either side of the spring. We're going to be placing ours on the outside of the spring due to clearance issues on the inside.We're going to start with the small sleeves here. You get three in your kit and you want to use your measurements that yo
