AnswerID: 187085 Submitted: Friday, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:40
Member - Jeff M (WA)
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ARB give me the bleep s with this running "their" compressor for the air lockers. It is a complete waste of money! (not saying that their compressors are not good, just that you DO NOT NEED TWO).
I mean if you want two compressors, do what roachie did and run to decent capacity compressors plumbed into the one tank.
The only thing you need is a tank (cheap second hand from truck wreckers) and an ARB pressure switch (about $30). Then you can hook up any decent compressor and it will not only work your lockers but will pump your
tyres and give you one board pressured air.
I've been through this with ARB a few times before, they are such wallies. I mean seriously, all they know how to do is take somthing out of a box and bolt it on, as soon as it get's even slightly more complicated than that, they don't want to know about it.
My suggestion: rig up your air system first.
1. Buy a compressor of your choice, be it blue tounge, max air, whatever.
2. Get a tank from somewhere and mount that under the vehicle.
3. Run an aline from the tank to the compressor and hook up the pressure switch to turn the pump on and off as required (via a relay of course).
4. Put a "T" peice or manifold in with a standard 1/3" barb on it ready for the ARB twats.
5. Take car in and say put air locker in and connect hose here.
Done and dusted.
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Friday, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:54
Member - Jeff M (WA) posted:
Awsome, just awsome. I've seen them run a few times, but never setup properly until the other day. My mate has a wide track feroza and it had no aircon. He recently went to the wreckers and bought an air con compressor off an Applause with the mount bracket and everything (same motor as the frozy, they just mount it east west in the appluase as it's front wheel drive).
He hooked it up with a truck tank, arb switch, pressure guage and put his ferrry horns on it as well. It is so bleep ING fast. Mine tanks about 3-4 minutes at least to fill the tank (using the bluetounge), we released the water trap (he's got inline oilers, water traps the whole works it's sick), and dropped the pressure right down to 0psi. Then he just reached over and gave it a little rev (about 1000rpms) and within about 10-20 seconds his tank was fully charged and there was no noise. The only way you could tell it was doing anything was the guage moving like a bat out of hell and when it cut out all this white steam/water vapour came wooshing out of the compressor inlet hose. Man it's
cool. The whole setup cost him less than $300 bucks. Looks like it's factory! ;-) And numatic ferry horns on a feroza are hillarious!
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