Okay so I've been super busy preparing and then actually traveling to Moab so I've been remiss in giving you guys a review of the Air Lift 1000 Kit. Without further ado, here we go:

I love them. They are amazing. I have absolutely no reservations.

They level the suspension back to the factory rake, limit what the Air Lift folks call "porpoising" (see-sawing when you hit bumps), and otherwise make the ride extremely smooth when carrying significant rear weight. They survived the bumps in Moab without a problem, and the installation is super clean. Here are some pics:

Passenger air bag:


Driver's side:


Valve and airline that feeds air bags. Tom's new hitch requires you to remove the lower cladding bolts, so the recess made a convenient mounting point for the valve.


There's a tee connector right behind the brake line in this picture that links both air bags with the valve in the rear cladding. The tee allows you to fill both bags simultaneously and balances the air pressure between the two bags. This comes in handy when you hit hard bumps with only one side of the VX, because rather than potentially popping the air bag the excess pressure is pushed to the other uncompressed bag. Pretty cool...


As we discussed on a previous page, these won't eliminate the hard bumps created by the stock bump stops / spring helpers. But if you ever tow or carry significant weight in/off the back of your VX you can't go wrong with these IMHO.

Questions?