Setting up the Air Lift 1000 Air Helper Springs for Coil Springs on your 2023 Nissan Pathfinder

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Hey guys, Kevin here with etrailer and today I'm gonna be showing you how to install the Airlift 1000 air helper springs for coil springs here on our 2023 Nissan Pathfinder. These airbags are gonna give you a five to 35 PSI range of adjustability so you can kind of fine tune exactly how much support you're gonna be getting from them. They have a thousand pound capacity and that does not mean that you can add an additional thousand pounds to your vehicle's tongue weight capacity or towing capacity. It's only going to help you support that weight. So this is going to just be an enhancement. It's not an addition to what you actually have for your capacities.

So the reason why you'd want to get these airbags is just because on a lot of cars, like our Nissan Pathfinder, there's not a lot of options. This is gonna be one of the only things you can really do to kind of help support that weight, especially if you don't have the option for a weight distribution hitch. If your vehicle or your trailer hitch is not rated for that then you won't be able to use that to kind of help mitigate some of that sag that you get when you hook up to a trailer. So in place of that we can go ahead and install those bags inside of our coils and that's gonna help strengthen up those coils and kind of prevent them from compressing as easily as they normally would. And if you need to, you can go ahead and adjust that, like I said, with the five to 35 PSI range.

That way you can really get it to where it's gonna ride comfortable while you're towing and then also when you don't have that heavy load on the back of your vehicle. Another added benefit from these airbags is that while you're not sagging anymore it's also gonna keep your headlights at the correct height so that you're not blinding all the people that are in front of you or just not being able to see everything that's on the road in front of you. And then on top of that, it's also going to help with the suspension wear and then also your tire wear. So you're not gonna be putting all that weight on your back tires lifting up the front ones. Most of your braking power comes from the front wheels.

So if they're not making a good enough contact with the ground, you're not gonna have that good handling and you're not gonna have good braking power. So throwing these on here, getting your ride back to level is gonna help save you money in the long run because you're not gonna have to keep replacing these back tires or any other suspension components that could wear out over time. If you don't want the hassle of having to lug around a compressor or stop at your nearest gas station to fill up the PSI or lower it and then readjust it, kind of get it where you need it to, you can also go ahead and pick up an onboard compressor. We have a multitude of different types that'll allow you to use a remote. There's a dial one, there's even ones that you can use with your smartphone and get that exactly at that PSI rating that you need it to be at.

Start off, we're gonna have to decompress our airbag so we're gonna have to go ahead and take off that cap. We're gonna set that aside for just a sec. We'll squeeze this down. And as you're doing it, you're also gonna wanna try and work the sides in a little bit too. So it makes it a little bit easier. You're kinda sticking it between your knees and just kinda squeezing down. And kind of folding it in and then we'll stick our cap back on. So that we don't let air back into it. And then while you have it like that, we're gonna go ahead and also kind of fold it like a hotdog bun. Like it says in the instruction manual. This can be a little bit challenging trying to get it to fold 'cause the bag wants to kind of fight you the whole way. But once you get one side it'll be a little bit easier. Grab the other. All right. And we wanna make sure that we have our spot with our little air inlet facing down and you can kind of slip that into the coil. Gonna want to angle that down as you slip in. And then we can push the top in. Get it kinda centered again and we're gonna grab our little spacer. This spacer is gonna go between our airbag and the bottom of our coil area. There's a little hole in there, so I'm gonna stick my finger up in there and let that pop on there and I'll kind of center it. And then I'm gonna go ahead and pull off that black cap and let air back into our bag. We'll get it kind of formed back, how it should be and have that little inlet pointing down and we'll try and work it down into that hole so that we can run our air line to it. So this is