etrailer | AirLift 1000 Helper Springs Installation - 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan
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Today on our 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan, we'll be having a look at and installing the Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs for the rear. Part number AL60814. The reason you'll want to have an Air Lift system like this is if you have a vehicle where you're towing a trailer with a heavy tongue weight, or have a lot of cargo loaded in the back of it quite frequently. This will help support the rear of the vehicle to help prevent it from sagging, so you can drive down the road with the vehicle riding more like factory, and you won't have to compromise your suspension, your tires, or your handling. You'll have it riding level, but you'll still have your handling, your braking, and your tire wear will be just like normal. Let's have a closer look at what our Air Lift here comes with. We have our two air bags here. We have our section of black rubber hose here for the air line.
We have some zip ties to help secure everything. We have two grommets to run the air line through. We have a T fitting here that will connect the two air bags, and lead us out to one cord on the back of the vehicle. We have our fittings here to air them up. We have some washers, some nuts, some rubber washers, and some star lock washers. Some caps to cover up our fittings, to keep dirt and dust out of them, so we can easily air them up. With our vehicle up in the air, and our rear axle supported with some jack stands here, we can begin our installation by unclipping the brake line from this plastic clip on the side, doing so with a flat head screwdriver.
We'll separate the tab like so. Pop it free. Remove this bolt here from this bracket. This bolt's a 13 millimeter. We'll do the same thing on the other side. Now we'll disconnect our rear shocks from the sub-frame, putting an 18 millimeter wrench on the nut side, and an 18 socket on the bolt itself.
We'll do the same on the other side. Now we want to take a marker, and mark the body, the spring seat, and the spring itself, so we can line them all back up when we reinstall them. Do the same on both sides. With our springs, the spring seat, and the body marked all in the same location, we can lower our rear axle enough so the springs can come out. I'm going to do this slowly and evenly on both sides. Pull them back, around the brake lines. Remove the spring.
Make sure we do the same on both sides. With our springs removed, I went ahead and put an L for the left spring, and an R for the right spring. That way they go back in their original location. First thing we need to do is remove this bottom piece from the spring. Now we'll pull off the actual bump stop itself here. Drop it out the bottom of the spring. Then we'll remove the top section as well. You might find that a little difficult to remove. Now taking our bounce bumper bracket here, take a half inch drill bit in a large existing hole. It's plastic, so it drills very easily. Make sure you're wearing gloves while doing this, or put it in a vice. We're going to pour some of the rubber stuff on through. We're going to push the plastic on through a little bit to help clean up the hole. Now this top hole here, where the spring seats on the vehicle, we need to drill that out to a half inch as well. Now we can do the same for the other side as well. Now at the top of our left spring seat, there's a reinforcement right here. We need to drill a hole a half inch in diameter, about three and a half inches from the bottom lip of it. Just behind this panel here. We'll mark where we're going to drill. Right now, with a smaller drill bit than our final diameter, we'll drill ourselves a pilot hole, making sure it will only go through the first layer of metal. With our pilot hole started, we can change out to our half inch diameter drill bit, and finish the hole. We can now take our supplied grommet, and insert it into the hole. Push it into position, squeeze it in. We can repeat the process on the other side now. Now we can take our air spring here. Remember, this is the top we marked with the yellow marker before. We can install our air spring with the fitting going towards the top. We'll have to squeeze it. Spray a little soap and water on the spring. It helps the air bag slide in through the coils a little easier. You won't be struggling quite as much. We can take our bounce bumper stop right here. See this divot right there That is where the end of our coil spring right here is going to rest. So push it back into position, give it a smack on the ground. We'll twist our coil spring to where it lines up. We're not reinstalling our bounce bumper, so we can set that aside. We'll take
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Today on our 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan, we'll be having a look at and installing the Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs for the rear. Part number AL60814. The reason you'll want to have an Air Lift system like this is if you have a vehicle where you're towing a trailer with a heavy tongue weight, or have a lot of cargo loaded in the back of it quite frequently. This will help support the rear of the vehicle to help prevent it from sagging, so you can drive down the road with the vehicle riding more like factory, and you won't have to compromise your suspension, your tires, or your handling. You'll have it riding level, but you'll still have your handling, your braking, and your tire wear will be just like normal. Let's have a closer look at what our Air Lift here comes with. We have our two air bags here. We have our section of black rubber hose here for the air line.
We have some zip ties to help secure everything. We have two grommets to run the air line through. We have a T fitting here that will connect the two air bags, and lead us out to one cord on the back of the vehicle. We have our fittings here to air them up. We have some washers, some nuts, some rubber washers, and some star lock washers. Some caps to cover up our fittings, to keep dirt and dust out of them, so we can easily air them up. With our vehicle up in the air, and our rear axle supported with some jack stands here, we can begin our installation by unclipping the brake line from this plastic clip on the side, doing so with a flat head screwdriver.
We'll separate the tab like so. Pop it free. Remove this bolt here from this bracket. This bolt's a 13 millimeter. We'll do the same thing on the other side. Now we'll disconnect our rear shocks from the sub-frame, putting an 18 millimeter wrench on the nut side, and an 18 socket on the bolt itself.
We'll do the same on the other side. Now we want to take a marker, and mark the body, the spring seat, and the spring itself, so we can line them all back up when we reinstall them. Do the same on both sides. With our springs, the spring seat, and the body marked all in the same location, we can lower our rear axle enough so the springs can come out. I'm going to do this slowly and evenly on both sides. Pull them back, around the brake lines. Remove the spring.
Make sure we do the same on both sides. With our springs removed, I went ahead and put an L for the left spring, and an R for the right spring. That way they go back in their original location. First thing we need to do is remove this bottom piece from the spring. Now we'll pull off the actual bump stop itself here. Drop it out the bottom of the spring. Then we'll remove the top section as well. You might find that a little difficult to remove. Now taking our bounce bumper bracket here, take a half inch drill bit in a large existing hole. It's plastic, so it drills very easily. Make sure you're wearing gloves while doing this, or put it in a vice. We're going to pour some of the rubber stuff on through. We're going to push the plastic on through a little bit to help clean up the hole. Now this top hole here, where the spring seats on the vehicle, we need to drill that out to a half inch as well. Now we can do the same for the other side as well. Now at the top of our left spring seat, there's a reinforcement right here. We need to drill a hole a half inch in diameter, about three and a half inches from the bottom lip of it. Just behind this panel here. We'll mark where we're going to drill. Right now, with a smaller drill bit than our final diameter, we'll drill ourselves a pilot hole, making sure it will only go through the first layer of metal. With our pilot hole started, we can change out to our half inch diameter drill bit, and finish the hole. We can now take our supplied grommet, and insert it into the hole. Push it into position, squeeze it in. We can repeat the process on the other side now. Now we can take our air spring here. Remember, this is the top we marked with the yellow marker before. We can install our air spring with the fitting going towards the top. We'll have to squeeze it. Spray a little soap and water on the spring. It helps the air bag slide in through the coils a little easier. You won't be struggling quite as much. We can take our bounce bumper stop right here. See this divot right there That is where the end of our coil spring right here is going to rest. So push it back into position, give it a smack on the ground. We'll twist our coil spring to where it lines up. We're not reinstalling our bounce bumper, so we can set that aside. We'll take
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