etrailer | DIY Install: Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs for Coil Springs on your 2014 Honda Odyssey

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Today on this 2014 Honda Odyssey, we're going to review and install the Airlift 1000 Air Helper Spring for coil springs. Part number AL60815. As you see here, these springs actually reside inside the coil springs. Now, it does come with all the hardware, fitting, and airline needed to install. Here's our key right here that goes out to both airbags, and we go to the back of the van. We see one single valve right here that will allow you to insulate up both at the same time. Now lift capacity is going to be one thousand pounds for these air springs. We'll go ahead and show our stock measurement on our van first.

We'll measure from the ground to the top of the fender well. Our measurement will be about thirty and a quarter inches. Now we have some weight added to the back of our vehicle, using a cargo carrier, we'll go ahead and get our second measure. All right, now it looks like we've brought it down to about twenty-nine inches. Looks like on our new measurement, it looks like the van went down about an inch. We'll go ahead and take a test drive and watch how suspension works when it's loaded without any help from the air springs.

With the weight in the back of the van the coil springs are blocked down but also our handling just a little bit where you can feel the factor. Now with airbags in place, weight back in our vehicle, we inflated the bags up to a maximum of thirty-five pounds and we brought our ride height up to about twenty-nine and three-quarters so just a little bit shy of our original height but it sill should work out just find. Let's go ahead and take it for a test drive and see how it handles. Of course the weight is still back there and of course it's still not quite the ride height but it handles so much better when you have that installed on your van. Next we'll go ahead and show you how we installed it on our Odyssey. First off, you're going to need to be able to lift this vehicle up in the air so you can let the suspension hang down. Next, you want to go ahead and remove the wheel. We're going to be working with the driver's side.

Using the twenty-two millimeter socket, we'll go ahead and remove the lug nuts. Then we can go ahead and take off the wheel. Next up we need to go ahead and remove this bolt right here. Then this will allow us to lower this arm which is connected to this spring. Now you want to be careful when you do this. We're going to place a jack underneath here and use that to support it to take the bolt out and then we can lower in a controlled manner. Next we'll remove this bolt here using a seventeen millimeter socket.

Before I lower it down, I'm going to make a mark on my spring and this cup that the spring sits in and this arm. I'm just going to make a simple line so I know I have everything back in the right place when we put it back together. We use the jack to go ahead and lower it slowly. There's still a considerable amount of pressure on the springs so you really want to be careful when you do this. Once the pressure is release, we'll go ahead and move the jack out of the way. We have our spring loose. I'm going to push the arm down to give us room to remove the spring. We'll take this little ring out of the way too and we'll clean up the top of our arm here. Now this john stopper right here, we have to remove this part and this part. There's a bolt on the inside that we remove using a fourteen millimeter socket. Shallow socket with about a six inch extension works good. This is a pretty long bolt so it will take quite a few turns to remove it. Let's go ahead and clean up the top of the arm here because we're going to be putting a template on top of this because we have to drill a hole through the top for our airline tubing. All right this is a template that comes with the kit. I just basically cut out one of the pages in the instructions and covered it with some clear tape just to make it a little bit more durable because we have to use it on both sides. You can see the where the hole is already drilled out where it says hole location. We want this hole going towards the center of the vehicle. I'll put it on top, center it up, I'll use some more tape to hold it in place. All right now with the template in place I'm going to use a quarter inch drill bit. It does help to have a right angle drill for this and I'll drill out my pilot hole. I went ahead and removed my pattern. I'm going to enlarge the hole to three-quarters of an inch using the hole saw. Next I'm going to work with my airline tubing. What I'm going to do is on this one, I'm going to put it over the top of the frame of the rear suspension, pu