Hi,
Any members currently using the air lifter kit that is available, to make things easier on the arms and back A lot of money, but would you recommend fitting one ?
Any tips for fitment and operation ?
Thank you, Barry
When we had our Coromal Pop Top I installed the Air Lift kit and found it absolutely fantastic!
The kit was complete to the last clip, nut and bolt and was reasonably easy to fit. Meaning that if you are handy with hand tools and don't mind taking your time you'd have no problems fitting it.
The kit came with its own compressor which, at the time the supplier encouraged you to use and not buy another cheaper version as he knew and would guarantee that it would work.
As you said "a lot of money" but you will soon forget the cost when you've used it a few times. At the time I had a crook shoulder and the cost soon became a distant memory.
The people who supplied mine are www.rvairlifters.com.au who I found very helpful. They were looking at having installers in various states but I enjoyed fitting the system myself because at the time they were fairly new and I wanted to know what went into fitting them so if anything went wrong over time I would have a better idea of a fix.
However absolutely nothing ever went wrong and they got a lot of use.
Did you find it harder to pull the roof down, giving that you still had your original gas struts to compress, plus what ever it took to get the air out of the sytem as well.
You open the relief valve so that you can pull the roof down and the air is expelled from the bags.
The valve is placed near the switch and compressor as these are your controls. The compressor is in fact one of the 12 volt pumps commonly available. As I mentioned earlier the supplier preferred the customer used his pump which then guaranteed correct operation.
From memory he was NOT charging an arm or a leg for the pump and in any case you need to leave it attached as a permanent fixture rather than digging around for it when you need to lift the roof.
I certainly had no problems pulling the roof down even with my dicky shoulder.
