Awesome safety feature in Jack Mode

[DeBergo]

So I put the truck in extract mode and needed to get under it on a creeper and put a Jack stand under the passenger side lift point just to be safe because you never know. Finished up and took a phone call and promptly forgot to take the jack stand out and put the suspension back to medium height. As soon as the truck detected that corner wasn’t going down it put itself into Jack mode and stopped the suspension. Turned off Jack mode and raised it back up to remove the Jack stand, but I think this would be a great way to change a tire in a pinch. Put it extract, lower it onto a block to take the weight off the wheel then swap the tire. I’m going to put the snow tires on this weened and Will follow-up if this can work for a tire change.

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[tmeyer3]

I'd be interested to know if this works. I couldn't get it to work this way when I tried a month a ago, but was probably user error.

 

[65SoYoLO]

nope. the air suspension does not lift the tire and suspension components, it only applies downward pressure. you will have to jack up the wheel assembly in order to get the tire off the ground.

 

[SamJoe]

nope. the air suspension does not lift the tire and suspension components, it only applies downward pressure. you will have to jack up the wheel assembly in order to get the tire off the ground.

That makes sense.

Frustratingly, this weekend I found out the user manual says to put truck at medium hight, enable Jack mode, then lift the truck. Problem with this is, Jack mode doesn't prevent the suspension from sagging to full extension. By the time I had all four wheels off the ground, I had nearly maxed out my Jack and definitely exceeded my Jack stand height.

Start out in extraction mode and Jack it from there and ensure you have adequate Jack stands.

 

[65SoYoLO]

That makes sense.

Frustratingly, this weekend I found out the user manual says to put truck at medium hight, enable Jack mode, then lift the truck. Problem with this is, Jack mode doesn't prevent the suspension from sagging to full extension. By the time I had all four wheels off the ground, I had nearly maxed out my Jack and definitely exceeded my Jack stand height.

Start out in extraction mode and Jack it from there and ensure you have adequate Jack stands.

I don't use extract mode so I don't risk popping the air bags. I use the very high setting and a couple of blocks of wood under the jack. Works great.

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