Swapping out the air ride

[UnderDogg]

Whats up everybody? Can you all help me with some advice tips on the replacing my air ride rear shocks with gas on a 04 yukon denali xl?

 

[Trey Hardy]

Whats up everybody? Can you all help me with some advice tips on the replacing my air ride rear shocks with gas on a 04 yukon denali xl?

It’s a direct swap if you got a compressor back there just unplug it so it don’t run

 

[Joseph Garcia]

You can go with the non-Denali (air ride) shocks for your year Yukon, but you will also have to replace the rear springs with the stiffer non-Denali springs (because the air assist will no longer be available to help support the rear).

 

[nonickatall]

I have a 2006 Escalade that has a broken air suspension and I never noticed that I had any problems with my springs. I was hauling about 350 kilos of cement once and if you looked closely you could see that the car was a little lower in the back than the front. But not problematic in any way. If you change your shock absorbers and if you also have an active suspension like the Escalade has, which you can tell because there are plugs going to the shock absorbers, then you need to get adapters that you put on those plugs so that you don't get an error message from the magnetic ride suspension.

 

[SilverSport]

shouldn't you have AutoRide Suspension nonickatall???...same as our Denali does...

Bill

 

[nonickatall]

Hello Bill,

is it called an auto ride? I didn't know what it was called. But yes, I think so, and a friend who owns a Tahoe is always jealous because he says that the Escalade handles the road much better than his Tahoe.

I always tell him: Your car is only a craftman's car and I have a rapper's truck...

Best wishes from Germany
Ralf

 

[wjburken]

Hello Bill,

is it called an auto ride? I didn't know what it was called. But yes, I think so, and a friend who owns a Tahoe is always jealous because he says that the Escalade handles the road much better than his Tahoe.

I always tell him: Your car is only a craftman's car and I have a rapper's truck...

Best wishes from Germany
Ralf

Auto Ride and Auto Leveling are two separate systems. Auto Leveling is what uses the air shocks and compressor, along with height sensors at each wheel, to keep the vehicle level front to back.

Auto Ride uses variable dampening shocks to adjust the ride if the vehicle based on the road conditions.