Replacing Rear Air Spring

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Originally Posted by Westlotorn

I just replaced both of my rear air springs with the Arnott bags.
Information on this forum certainly saved me time and energy.

Tips I would pass on.

I jacked up the rear of the car, blocked the front wheels, both sides, used my floor jack under the rear differential being careful not to let the jack hit the diff cover. Raised the car and installed jack stands under both body jack locations in front of the rear wheels.
Now you can put your floor jack under the rear wheel hub support to lower the rear or raise it as needed to change your air bag.

On the bottom of the new and old bags there is a locator bump and there is a recessed area in the air bag support to receive this bump. Take a sharpie and mark this bump location on the bottom of the air bag and mark the air bag support on the differential as to the location of this locator. It keeps the bag from turning once it is installed.
If you know where this is you can quickly install the upper and lower properly.

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Awesome writeup, unfortunately it came a bit late for me as I changed the bags 3 weeks back. I did essentially follow the same steps except for using a crowbar, popping off the shock or marking the lines (am a bit nervous as well) and I did remove the fuse and let the bags deflate on their own before starting the job. Took me about the same time (2 hrs). Inserting the bags into the groove was a pain and took the longest.

I did a long road trip after the swap and the bags have held up fine (fingers crossed).

Adding some pics if that helps anyone: