Consumer reviews for Air Lift 60742
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Brand: Air Lift
Model: 60742
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Air Lift 60742 Review by Kurtis Waddell "San Diego Kurtis" (San Diego, Ca)
In short. A+ product, well worth it if you actually use your SUV to haul stuff.
Before installing these Air Lift 1000's my 2003 Nissan Pathfinder would sag a lot with a load in the back. I carry Mainly camping, gear, ice chests and people.
After adding these, I have done several extended 10 days trips in Baja California, with 100's of miles off roading per trip. These helped so much I wouldn't go on a trip without them.
The Last Fishing Trip.
We use a HUGE ice chest, with a starting weight of 45 lbs of ice, and 180+ 12 oz cans of soda and beer (135 pounds). 8 Gallons of Gas (64 Lbs), 6 gallons of water (48 LBS) + camping and fishing gear.. 8 HP Boat motor (80+ lbs), inflatable Zodiac on roof (40 lbs ish). Thats about 400 lbs, before the camping gear, fishing gear and other food is added. After thinking about it, I am amazed with the weight we loaded for this trip. We drove from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas, doing about 2500 miles total with all the side trips... Yep, fishing was good on the east cape..
I set the units up with independent hoses to fill up each side. For 90% of the year, I have little heavy gear in the car besides surfboards and bikes. So I do not check the air pressure much. But, it's nice to know I can load the car down when needed. Plus these give a little bit of lift in the back. Handling is still fine.
Air Lift 60742 Review by G. Erickson "raschmotorra" (Minneapolis)
I Installed the Air Lift 1000 kit into my 2002 Pathfinder which was experiencing really sacked-out rear coil springs. Replacement springs were ridiculously expensive and these air bladders were less than half the cost. When just two Adults and a full tank, only 30% max rated pressure is needed to keep her rump standing high and proud again. Interesting, I had always known mine was due for some attention but it took other similarly afflicted Pathfinders seen on the road to convince me to act.
Installation was straight forward for me (after a slight detour). This being the fact that the 2002 model has lower spring seats that include a center hole that tantalized me to perform installation similar to some others (not drilling it out to the larger bore). All went well until a week later when, with a sudden brief blast of air, the flaw in the method became evident. I was raising the truck back up on the lift for some other work when the poly tube, feeding air to the bladders, popped off one of them. Upon close examination, it appeared that the bladders, after entering service, (being filled with air) become conformed to their individual springs, a death-grip of sorts. So when lifting the truck, allows the rear axle to extend until hanging by its shock's, this allowed the springs to extend and subsequently pull the Air Lift Bladders alarmingly high off their bottom spring seats. For them to do this they must draw their poly tubing air feed tubes up through the seat holes. In this case the original small hole's close-fit gripped the poly tube enough to restrict their smooth feed through and so popped it off the brass nipple extending from the bottom of the bladder. Furthermore, when dropping the vehicle back down on its suspension, the tubing would not return back down the small holes, but would accordion (pinch) into worthlessness. (I tried this as an experiment).
So with my new found knowledge, I decided to reinstall per Mfg instructions including, removing the springs, drilling the holes out to at least 5/8", smoothing out any burrs and then reassembling with extra tubing coiled enough beneath the spring seats so that the bladders can rise and fall when the vehicle is raised the way a service station would (via body frame).
Handling is great, even heavily loaded with four adults and gear for the holidays plus a trailer, still only requiring raising pressure to 50% of maximum. A wonderful product to be sure.
Air Lift 60742 Review by W. Montgomery (Alabama)
I have these air springs on a 2003 Nissan Pathfinder. I really like them a lot. They have fixed the sag in the rear and combined with new shocks my car handles like new. However, the install was a lot more complicated than advertised on Air Lift's website. I had to completely take the rear end out of my car. The springs needed to come out, so i had to rent a spring compressor, the panhard bar had the be removed and the shocks. You have to remove the bumpstops and drill a hole in the spring seat for the airline. It was a ton of work but well worth it. Keep in mind that each vehicle install is different, so if your worried about your car check for the instructions for your vehicle.
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I've now had these on my car for almost 3 years. I can report they are still working great and I'm so glad I put them on. When you have nothing in the car or are not towing, you can set the pressure real low and you don't even know they are there; nice and comfortable, but stops bottoming out. When I load up the back with scuba tanks, gear, weights, and hook up the boat, I up the pressure to about 20psi. This levels the car out, and the ride is still very comfortable. Maybe more than when not loaded. When you put on air springs you should really change your shocks as well to something that gives better control for the expected added weight.
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Air Lift 60742::Description
AIR LIFT 1000 Series Rear Air Spring Kit is designed to adjust the air spring level of the vehicle while towing. It includes hardware and durable component. This kit eliminates sag and features 2000 pounds of leveling capacity. It installs inside coil spring to eliminate bottoming out and is highly durable.
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