Onboard Air Systems (Updated w/ Pics)
My truck has two air compressors already, one for the airbags and the other for the Banks exhaust brakes. These work fine but I can't use them for airing up tires because they are two small for this f...
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adamis wrote:
To answer JoeChiOhki first... If you are just adding the system for airbags and an airhorn, the belt driven compressor is overkill I think. My truck already had two air compressors, one for the exhaust brake and one for the airbags. You don't need large pumps for either of these items. Guys using the belt drive units are using them for air tools and inflating large off-road or farm tires. I think you would be pretty happy with an electric pump and you would have a lot more flexibility on the install. In my own case, I am considering trying to remove the two other compressors to clean up wiring and such but I will likely leave things as they are for now because I'm running out of time to spend on this project as it is.
Aye, if I was able to add it, I would expand the setup to include larger tanks and the means to connect impact air tools and what not to the system for field work. It would also be used for airing up and down the truck's six tires (or the tires of a future toad), and so on.
Since its not looking like an straight forward thing to accomplish for now (Larger project than I have the time to take on atm), I planned to scale it back to a smaller use case which only operates the air suspension and the horn and for that a much smaller system will fit the bill.
