I hit a pretty big snag in getting my air suspension functional. I redid all my Teflon tape with 3 layers, and I deburred all the ends of the 3/8 hard lines. I reinstalled everything and now the push to connect on the manifold leaks, like beyond leaks, and it’s the tank PTC cartridge……air comes in to fill the tank and it blows right out. I found some videos on how to replace the cartridge……and ordered replacement cartridges. I was about to go ahead and replace it…but decided to call AirLift. My particular manifold only had a 1 year limited warranty from the date of purchase. Well, Airlift appreciated my forthcoming describing how I probably destroyed the rubber gasket, unknowingly with all my test fitting of the hard lines when making them. Those push to connects are more delicate than you would assume…or at least I did. I suppose with the end of the hard line slightly ragged….eventually it just cut the rubber gasket. Here is a replacement cartridge

And I guess replacing the cartridge is a black market thing….like it’s not even acknowledged by Airlift as a way to repair. Basically ppl find themselves with issues sometimes after a warranty period and certain ppl have sourced these cartridges, making them known, allowing ppl to fix their manifold without buying a new one. As much as this issue feels like a manufacturing one, I suppose with more information, I would have known to deburr and be very careful? So everything you find negative about Airlift seems to come down to user error, as in my case. It’s like everything negative is talked about. It’s like, if it’s good, you hear nothing. So I believe the percentage of issues to none is probably still 20/80.
AirLift said they would honor a warranty claim even though I’m outside of the one year purchase date by 2 months. Said they want me to have a good experience. I filled out a warranty claim, hoping to hear back today. They said about 2 business days, today marks 3 business days. Once officially approved I will need to call, put a $250 hold on a CC. They ship me the replacement, I send them back the original and once they get it they remove the $250 hold on my CC. All in all not too bad. Just sucks waiting.
Now I’ve come across a debate that’s been going on in the air suspension world. Bag Riders and AirLift say you CAN use hard lines into push to connect fittings. You just need to make sure it has a good seal….essentially it works but you either nail it first try (no leaks) or it tests your patience. In my case I’m beyond a leak, I have a blowout! So now….it’s always AFTER the fact…..what you should do if you’re already sure you’ll want to use hard lines (I wasn’t sure, didn’t think it mattered) get an AirLift manifold with 1/4” NPT ports. Then you’ll need to buy compression fittings. Ppl are saying in Air Suspension FB groups, Why do ppl continue to do it wrong??! PTC was never meant for hard lines. Then why does Bag Riders say you can and even has a setup on display with hard lines into PTC fittings. And AirLift said you CAN……In my case I am deep into my push to connect setup. If I went with an NPT port manifold, I’d have to buy one new, sell the one I have and then replace a bunch of my bulkhead fittings. I mean something like 23 fittings I’d have to change/buy. So this is what puzzles me….AirLift won’t send me back the NPT manifold, they say we only replace what you bought. Ok…but you can’t “rebuild it” with NPT? At some point during the manifold assembly, they go with 1/4” PTC, 3/8” PTC or 1/4” NPT. If you’re like me you’re thinking….why can’t this be disassembled and reassembled to whichever size you changed your mind for? It’s very odd. Extremely interesting. At this point I almost pulled the trigger on buying another Manifold with 1/4” NPT, but Bag Riders had none in stock….impulse buy, they were local and I could have picked it up same day, but the extra time to think about it and then telling me you CAN use push to connect….I’m just going to stay with push to connect. May just use plastic lines for
Now to conclude my testing….and when I go back to hard lines…(bought more lines too) I will at least know any leak is hard line only, instead of leaks in other places it’ll be contained to whatever I’m doing with hard lines, and I’ll treat the push to connects on the manifold like glass!
Wheel spacers came in! Beefy!! Verdict is in, my tires are same radius as stock 245-45-20 but 2.8” wider than stock lol

Then add a 2.5” spacer We are about 5.3” wider than stock on all 4 corners!! My 20x10.5” AR924 wheels and 315/35/20 weigh 57.8lbs. Spacers are 4.4lbs each. 62.2lbs. 2.2lbs over stock but massively wider with equally massive foot print. Considering how much wider they are I’ll take it. Hard to achieve this without weight adding up. The heaviest part of the tire and wheel is the tires, over 10lbs heavier than the wheels.



Better strut clearance

Just BEEFY!! I love it


It’ll look even wider on the ground, we got some suspension sag here, on the ground it’ll widen a hair
Carbon Fiber trunk mold is complete i believe. Time for some CF!! Stay tuned!

