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When you hang a snowplow, winch, or heavy grille guard on the front, the stock suspension can sag and throw off your steering and braking. The Air Lift 1000 air springs fit inside your existing front coil springs to add up to 1,000 lbs of load-leveling support. They keep the ride height normal so your steering stays controlled, your headlights stay aimed right, and your tires wear evenly under heavy front-end loads.
Every setup is different. With these adjustable air springs, you can dial in just the right pressure for your load—5 psi for normal driving or up to 35 psi when carrying extra weight up front. You can inflate each spring separately with dual air lines to balance off-center loads and keep everything level side to side.
Made from tough molded polyurethane, these air springs take up road shock and vibration so your ride feels stable even when the front end is weighted down. They help reduce sway and bounce, improving overall handling and braking confidence on rough roads or when working in tight spots.
This system installs right inside your factory front coils using basic tools, with clear instructions included. Manual inflation valves for each spring are part of the kit and can be mounted in an easy-to-reach spot like the bumper. If you want even more control, you can add a compressor system later to monitor and adjust air pressure from inside the cab.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Connor: Hey guys, how's it going Connor, today, here at etrailer.com. We're going to be taking a look at the Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs. In order to give you a better idea of the benefits that our airbags are going to offer here for our vehicle, what we're going to do is, we're going to take some measurements. We're going to measure the stock suspension unloaded from the ground to the center of the wheel well here. Then we're going to hook up a trailer.We have a medium to small boat trailer here, which would be perfect for this Grand Cherokee that we have in particular. We're going to couple the trailer and we're going to see how much the stock suspension sags.
What we're going to do is, we're going to take that measurement and then we're going to fill the air bags that we have installed to see how much that's going to raise back to our factory suspension and our stock ride height.What we're going to go ahead and do here is measure from the ground. Keep in mind your results may vary depending on what tow vehicle you have. We're just using this as reference, a guide to show you. While our vehicle is unloaded and we're detached from the trailer, we're going to measure from the ground to the top center inside of our wheel well, 34 and a half inches. We're going to go to the front, take the same measurement.In the front, we're about right at 33 inches, so we have about an inch and a half difference.
Now we're going to go ahead and couple the trailer and retake these same measurements. From the ground to the top center of the wheel well is going to be about 33 and a half inches. Therefore, we dropped about an inch in the rear. From the ground to the top center of the wheel well again in the front, is going to be about 33 and a half inches. Overall, we went down an inch in the rear and we came up about a half an inch in the front.Offhand, these measurements may not seem like a lot to you, but you'd be surprised at what sort of effects this could have on your vehicle while you're out driving around.
Number one, our suspension in the front is obviously raised a little bit, this is going to mean a couple of different things. Number one, we're not going to have nearly as much stopping power, because we don't have as much weight on the front axle.Now in modern vehicles, say, about 60% of our stopping power is going to be on the front axle. When we take weight off that front axle, we're going to decrease our stopping power. In addition to the reduced stopping power, the raised front end is going to do a couple other things. It's going to point our headlights more towards the sky, which is going to reduce our visibility of the road and finally, last but not least, we're going to have some tire wear issues because the camber of our front tires is not correct with the weight lifted off of them.Therefore, we're going to have to replace our tires sooner because they're going to wear unevenly.
By putting more of a strain on the rear of our vehicle, our existing suspension components are going to wear out faster. We could experience a harsher ride and overall the tow vehicle won't feel as stable than it would unloaded. Now we're going to go ahead and put some air in our air springs, retake our measurements so we can show you the difference. Now we have our airbags filled, we have our trailer re-coupled, let's go ahead and take our same measurements that we took earlier.From the ground to the top inside edge of the wheel well, it looks we're about 34 and a quarter, not quite to 34 and a half inches, so we're about a quarter inch away from our factory ride height here at the rear. Let's go up to the front of the vehicle. If you remember, our factory ride height here with the trailer attached and our stock suspension was at 33 inches at the front, and we are back at 33 inches. We've actually came back to the factory ride height here at the front of the vehicle.Since we're back at the factory ride height or very close to it now, we're not going to have to worry about some of the issues we mentioned earlier about the headlight aim, the tire wear issues, or the decreased suspension longevity. Now that we've given you a visual of some of the measurements in the factory ride height, we went ahead and decreased all the air in the airbags again to the minimum five PSI pressure, and now we're going to take the vehicle on our two test courses we have at etrailer, the slalom course and the speed bump course.We're going to try to show you a representation of the ride quality when we have a load present with the airbags inflated and a load present without the airbags inflated. What we're going to do is, we have a couple of coolers in our hatch area here, not a terrible amount of weight, but enough to know it's back there. We're just taking our vehicle out on our test course now. As we can tell, without the airbags inflated, we are a little bouncy going over these speed bumps, as you would expect though.Yeah, it does feel like the vehicle is shifting around just a tiny bit side to side. Our steering isn't quite as responsive as it normally is. Now we're going to do some invasive maneuvers on our slalom course. Keep in mind it is wet here, so we are going to keep our speeds rather low. Again, we have a couple coolers in the hatch area here with our airbags deflated. Again, we can notice just a slight to slide rocking, more of a body roll if you will, while we're making these sharp turns here. I'm going to turn around, go the other way.Again, nothing real, real drastic, but we do sort of notice it a little bit, or at least I can anyhow. Yeah, a little bit of body roll, side to side. Now we go ahead, we went ahead and inflated our air springs. We put around 20 to 30 PSI in there and now we're going to leave the gear and the coolers in the back hatch here. We're going to go ahead and take our vehicle through our test course again, starting with our speed bump course.The suspension definitely feels a little bit firmer, but I don't feel as much body roll as we had the first time around. There's not as much jolting side to side. The steering is a little bit more responsive. Again, not a drastic, huge difference, but a minimal difference that we can still notice. Now let's go ahead and head on over to the slalom course and see the improvements over there. Now we're at the slalom course here. We're going to make some invasive maneuvers at speed, try to remain consistent with the speed of our initial run.I am noticing the steering's being a little bit more responsive. The weight is also not shifting around as much side to side, therefore we don't have as much body roll. These results are going to be the same whether we have heavy cargo in the rear of our hatch here or we're towing a trailer. The biggest difference I would have to say is just the weight transfer from side to side isn't severe with our airbags installed and inflated, therefore we don't have as much body roll.I would say that is probably the biggest takeaway of these Air Lift Air Springs here. Now they're going to help us do two things. They're going to help us, one, if we're towing a heavy load, number two, they're going to help us if we're hauling a heavy load. However, the stock suspension isn't necessarily designed to max out the payload or to max out our trailer weight ratings every time it's on the road, so that's where our suspension enhancements come into place.Again, they're going to do an excellent job helping to stabilize the heavy load, so we don't have that uneven, that harsh ride quality we would if we we're maxing out the factory suspension. Although there aren't any other options for this vehicle, I actually prefer airbags because the main reason is they're adjustable. What this means is, we can adjust the pressure inside the airbags, so we get the perfect level of support and comfort for any given load we may have at a time.The Air Lift Air Helper Springs can be installed in one of two ways, we can install them as a single pass system, which essentially means that we're going to have one inflation port, which is going to inflate both airbags. Now this is going to be the most common setup and what I recommend using. However, there is another option as well, called a Dual Path System Install. Essentially this means we're going to have two inflation ports, one to each of the air bags, so we can adjust the air bags.We can adjust the PSI in each airbag's different, so we have different amount of PSI and that's essentially going to be good for trailers if they're heavier on one side or we have more cargo in one side of the vehicle than the other. Our Air Lift Air Helper Springs here are going to have a 1000 pound weight capacity. However, keep in mind this isn't going to increase either the payload or the towing capacity of our Jeep.In regards to the fill rating of our airbags, this can be anywhere from five PSI, which is the minimum to 30 PSI, which is a maximum. However, again, the major feature, the major draw of airbags is that you can adjust the pressure for any given load you may have. Just make sure it never falls below five PSI or above 30 PSI. We need to keep in mind that with our air lift airbags, we are going to require access to an external air compressor in order to inflate the airbags.Now, if you're only going to be using the airbags every so often, then we can probably just suffice with finding an external air compressor, like at a gas station. However, if you find yourself to be towing or hauling heavy loads frequently, it's definitely going to benefit you to consider an onboard air compressor, like this Air Lift Wireless Bluetooth Air Compressor that we have here. This is actually going to be an excellent option for this vehicle because we don't have to run any airlines or wires into the cab, and the compressor is sized appropriately for our air springs. Now that we've showed you some of the benefits and features of our air springs here, that's going to do it today for the look at our Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs.
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Ratings & Reviews
Used inside coil springs on front of a class A motorhome chassis. No leaks - pressure holding after a year of installation. I would recommend these airbags to anyone
I’m in my 70’s and installed them myself in my driveway. Class A Motorhome with Workhorse chassis Worked good on my low mile unit. Will not correct bad coil springs that are wore out
Great product, Great service behind it, I had problem when I received the item when I first received it as one of the air bags was damaged, however all it took was a call to etrailer and problem was resolved right away. They shipped out next day a replacement and have had these on my 2000 Winnebago Adventurer for over a year now and all is great.
I am very satisfied with Air Lift , I installed the bag's in my Georgetown Motorhome and they work perfectly after trial and air getting the pressure to the ride I wanted , to make it easier to get the same pressure in both air bag's I connected the two line's into one air valve and mounted it in the front outside compartment getting the same pressure in both at the same time and not having to go under the coach to add the air .
We bought our motor home used, a 2007 Winnebago 30B on the Workhorse platform. The original equipment front air bags were no longer viable. I ordered the Air Lift 1000 airbags from etrailer.com and installed them myself. It was a struggle but finally got them worked into place. The Air Lift bags made all the difference in the world as far as stabilization of the motor home driving down the highway. Excellent product! I run about 65 psi and that seems to be the right pressure for this motor home. Thanks to Air Lift for a great product and thanks to etrailer.com for great pricing and fast shipping!!
I purchased these AirLift springs for the front of my 2003 Ford E450 van which is the chassis for our Jayco 2700DS Granite Ridge Class C Motorhome. The front end of the motorhome felt too soft, it bounced, and it wandered when driven on anything less than perfect roads in a straight line. I tried an aftermarket front sway bar but didn't like that because the end links kept breaking (we had an aftermarket rear sway bar and loved it!). Also, it felt like a band aid in that it stiffened the chassis in turns but the vehicle still wandered and bounced. Next we purchased aftermarket front springs but they lifted the front end a lot and the coils were so thick that they didn't fit well in the mounts and the stock Ford coil spring retainer wouldn't work with them. Finally, we tried these air springs since we also had a pair in the rear and loved those. The front air springs were exactly what the vehicle needed to control all of the adverse driving experiences. Since they can be easily adjusted, it is simple to set up the front end's characteristics based on load and driving conditions. Finally, as a complete suspension solution for similar vehicles, I recommend the following: Air springs front and rear (use individual fill points for each spring to help counteract cornering lean-combining the two front or the two rear springs into a single fill point doesn't resist cornering lean as well since the high pressure air can travel side to side from high loaded spring to low loaded spring), keep the oem Ford front sway bar, add a RoadMaster rear sway bar, and add Bilstein shocks. In my opinion, this is the best setup for these Ford based motorhomes and it will transform your rig into a new vehicle. You may also want to add steering stabilizers (I used Roadmaster) based on your individual preference.
First thing, Sorry if the photos are sideways! I took a couple of pics of the air bags because on the site it looks as if they are too skinny to work but NO they are the right size for your P30 Chevy Motorhome. The price was right for the complete kit as shown in the photo with the lines, bags, shields and other little bits for mounting the lines on the frame.
For install, there is a set of directions and an a informational packet for those other items you may want to monitor and maintain you air bags if you so desire. The instructions are pretty good but I'll tell you that hole on the control arm at the bottom ain't that big! I put the bags in hot water to soften them up before trying the rolling and tying part and it helped. Be prepared to spend about 2 hours total to get this done but as far as being complicated, it's not. I didn't have to jack up my RV to do this either. Front suspension will now have the added support it came with back in 1987. Glad to have found this kit vs. the Firestone one that is basically the same for more $$ and many times is not in stock. Can't wait for the first trip!
I replaced the defective front air bags in a 2002 Workhorse P32 Allegro motorhome and they have performed well so far.
Be aware that installation is not for the novice mechanic as seems to be indicated in the installation instructions.
Also purchased the Air Lift Load Control II Compressor system for ease of use.
I purchased AirLift helper springs for my Motorhome about a year ago. Installation was a bit tricky because they fit inside the coil springs but the difference they have made to my ride is impressive, no more jarring bumps from potholes and a much less stressful drive. I definitely recommend these air bag helper springs and thanks to eTrailer for their service.
I bought these to replace the blown bladders in my 2006 Winnebago Siteseer Worsehorse chassis. I'm a handy guy but was a little nervous about cutting out the old bladders and installing the Air Lift 1000 units. I found the customer comments very helpful especially the comment on using a heat gun to pull the old bladders out. The first one took me a couple of hours to figure out, the second one took me less than an hour to deinstall old and install new.
I REALLY appreciate the hose extensions for the valves. I installed them up in the engine compartment where I can easily access them for checking and topping off the air. For the units I replaced, I had to crawl up under the rig to check and fill--no more of that nasty, dirty crawl for this senior citizen.
Filled to 60 PSI, the first drive was noticeably different, the handling feels much stiffer than it had. We're launching out on a 3,600-mile road trip in the next couple of weeks, I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle on the open road.
My advice to folks-- the installation seems daunting, but the results are well worth the challenge. I encourage you to try this product.
Package arrived damaged,no parts missing or damaged, can't comment on product not installed at this time.
Jim
Product very nice impressive, thank you!
Bought these for the front of my 1992 Bronco with a snowplow. They are GREAT, it only lifted the front about an inch, BUT they took out the bounce in the suspension and my plow mount no longer hits the road. The truck handles better too. The instructions say to remove the shocks and top spring clip, then fold bag in half and feed it down from the top of the spring. THAT was not an option with this truck because everything was so rusted, BUT we were able to stuff the bag between the coils to get it inside the spring, this option was way faster then it would have been to tear it all apart.
I put these on the front of my truck, under normal (unloaded) driving conditions I have about 5 psi in them and they make truck feel solid, I really like having them on when I have my 5th wheel trailer attached to the truck, I run the air bags at about 10-15 psi, the truck feels so much better with these bags on the truck, I feel that the truck is in control not the trailer.
Note: I have rear overload air bags on the truck as well.
Difficult to squeeze through access opening in control arm
Packaging was good and my product was what I wanted the people were very helpful.
5 stars.
Removing old bag: I found that using a heat gun helps tremendously in removing the old bag. Heating it to almost the melting point then sticking a large knife to cut it in pieces and pulling out the bottom.
Installing the new one: I used gear hose clamps after rolling it up and using dish soap as a lubricant helped a lot.
Installed on 15 Jetta tdi. I Removed wheel, then coil spring, (1 side at a time) folded bag like hot dog bun and installed into coil spring upside down (fitting facing down) cause it would have hit otherwise. Reinstalled, ran lines, mounted fill valve in bottom part of rear bumper and filled. It’s been a year and is still working perfectly.
Great product
I purchased 2 sets separately for a 2016 Jeep Wrangler. After a year, the hose in one set has a hole that needs to be repaired or all the air is lost and the air bag is useless. The other set needs to be replaced entirely in the other Jeep because the air bags will not hold air. The concept is great, but the product sadly needs some work.
This review is for etrailer customer service.
Always good and this time it was the same.
Good selection, good prices and great service.
I’ve used Air Lift bags before and like them but these won’t be installed for a while.
They work as planned. My plow on my 99 Wrangler is held up nicely
Mark
12/15/2025
It’s been bullet proof
Jesse M.
12/15/2025
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