The spring insulators...do they just bolt up to the top where the air lines go thru? Sorry if this is a dumb question, its for my wifes Sequoia and we have been quoted $1000 to replace the air bags and I'm trying to see if I can do this myself...I have swapped shocks and springs on my TLC 80 with no problem but never messed with an AHC system. I'm hoping I can just bolt something up and put some stock springs on and thats that. I dont want to deal with the air bags anymore, and I cant seem to find a good solid answer on the coil spring swap anywhere. Any help will surely be appreciated.To replace the AHC air bags with coil springs, you only need the replacement coil springs and new spring insulators (p/n 483130C010). They cost about $140 each new, or you can source them at a wrecking yard. Of course, you'd also need to disable the AHC system.
Great info thank you very muchSo what I did is I ordered all the parts new and then I decided to go to the junk yard and see what I could find. Dumb move . I found a much older sequoia and yanked the springs and retainers off it and figured for $80 it wasn’t to big of a deal and I could return them for lot credit if I needed to. There is a small tab holding the bags in place that u remove. And then just yank them suckers out. Air lines and all. The retainers snugged right up in there no bolts just the weight of the vehicle and spring tension. It’s common sense at that point. I returned the brand new ones I bought so now I’m only $80 in the hole. I will say it was much easier with 2 people aligning the springs. Also you don’t need a lower spring retainer cup like the 4runners do so don’t sweat that. My lessons learned was now the “manual” light flashes for the air system and no relay or fuse can make it go away. And second is that the springs from the junk yard weren’t the 3rd row / towing rates springs. So....... I know when there is a full vehicle because I’ll hit the bump stops on large bumps. Hope all that helps. If not let me know.
So what I did is I ordered all the parts new and then I decided to go to the junk yard and see what I could find. Dumb move . I found a much older sequoia and yanked the springs and retainers off it and figured for $80 it wasn’t to big of a deal and I could return them for lot credit if I needed to. There is a small tab holding the bags in place that u remove. And then just yank them suckers out. Air lines and all. The retainers snugged right up in there no bolts just the weight of the vehicle and spring tension. It’s common sense at that point. I returned the brand new ones I bought so now I’m only $80 in the hole. I will say it was much easier with 2 people aligning the springs. Also you don’t need a lower spring retainer cup like the 4runners do so don’t sweat that. My lessons learned was now the “manual” light flashes for the air system and no relay or fuse can make it go away. And second is that the springs from the junk yard weren’t the 3rd row / towing rates springs. So....... I know when there is a full vehicle because I’ll hit the bump stops on large bumps. Hope all that helps. If not let me know.
Have you had any luck finding a set of air springs? Saw them listed all over the place on eBay.So my wife vetoed the spring swap idea so I was just going to replace the air bag....and I cant find them in stock anywhere. I literally had them in my cart on Amazon now they are out of stock everywhere...I guess folks got their tax money and fixing up their rides! LoL I hope it doesnt burn out the compressor before I can get them replaced?! Oh well if it does I will just have to INSIST on swapping for springs I guess.
Yes thanks, They are finally back in stock on Amazon I got them and plan on putting them on tomorrow.Have you had any luck finding a set of air springs? Saw them listed all over the place on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=2006+sequoia+air+spring&ul_noapp=true