How to Install the Air Lift 1000 Heavy Duty Air Helper Springs for Coil Springs on a 2019 Ram 1500

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Hey everyone, Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2019 Ram 1500. I'm gonna walk through how to install the Air Lift 1000 air helper springs for the rear axle for the coils. There's different types of air suspension enhancement. You have the type that we have here, which is a bag that goes inside the coil. You have a SumoSpring type, which goes in place of your jounce bumper and it's just like a foam pad.
And then you have a separate air bag that will fit in place of your jounce bumper. The difference between 'em is the bag that goes inside the coil spring and then your SumoSpring type for the foam lock is more for your light-duty hauling. So for instance, a camper like this that doesn't have a whole lot of tongue weight, maybe you use the back of your truck for some lightweight stuff, I think the SumoSprings or these would probably be a perfect option. If you go more towards what the truck can handle, I recommend going with the air bags that go in place of the jounce bumper. They're gonna handle a little bit more weight capacity to 'em.
These are gonna have a 2,100 lb load-leveling capacity. Keep in mind, that does not increase the load-carrying capacity of the vehicle. You always wanna go with the lowest number between the two. So what suspension enhancement's gonna do for you. If we didn't have it and we put weight on the back of the truck or in the bed of the truck, it's gonna make the back of our truck squat.
Brings the front end up, causes a whole bunch of wear and tear on our rear axle that we don't necessarily need. It can make our ride unsafe when we're towing something. Adding the air springs will allow us to get the back of our truck back up level, front end back down, so we can support that extra weight. They come with a T-connector. You can set 'em up as dual-path or single-path.
The benefit to the dual-path is if you carry weight in the back of your truck and it's weighted more on one side, you can air up that one side a little bit more than the other to help support that weight. If you do it as a single, maybe you pull a trailer like this all the time, and you're just wanting that extra support, you set it up as single-path. You can add the air pressure. It's gonna air up both bags at the same time and then you just hook up and you're ready to go. One thing to keep in mind. Say we're not pulling a trailer. We have a load in the back of the truck. When we have a load in the back of the truck, it's heavy. We're going 'round a corner. You're gonna start to feel the truck kinda lean. And that's called body roll. Without that, it's putting that stress on that side of the suspension. Having bags to support that suspension, you're gonna get a lot less body roll. It's gonna make your ride a lot more comfortable. Now we're gonna give you some before and after footage on our test course. Same weight. Before the bags are put on, after the bags are put on, and see what kind of a difference it made. So what we're gonna do is we're take a measurement. Here's the back, normal ride height. No weight on it. We don't have the trailer hooked up yet. From the bottom edge here down to the ground in the back and in the front. Find out our normal ride height. We're gonna note that down. We're gonna add weight and then we're gonna take that measurement again. Here at the back we're at about 38-1/8. We'll do the same thing here in the front. We're at 37-1/2. We'll note that down. We're gonna add the weight of the trailer onto the vehicle and see how much change we get. Now that we've got the weight, we'll take the measurement again. And we're at 36-3/4. So we've dropped quite a bit here. Let's go to the front, take another one here. And we're about 37-7/8. Now we've only come down about an inch in the back. That raised the front only about a quarter inch. Now, if we add the weight in this vehicle, more of what this vehicle can handle, the back end's gonna drop even more. Front end's gonna come up even more. We're gonna get unnecessary stress on our rear axle that we don't need. Front end, as I mentioned's gonna come up. We're gonna get that uneven tire wear, braking, steering's gonna be light, headlights are gonna be aiming out. It's gonna make it unsafe. We're gonna take the trailer, the camper, without our bags on, through our test course. We're gonna go over some bumps. Kinda give everyone an idea of what the suspension does with the weight on it. Without having bags. So right off the bat what I notice is especially with tongue weight, the back end, it seems a little flat. Like it's not getting the full compression that we want. It is ki