Finding and repairing air hose leak
Submitted: Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:32
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GoneTroppo Member (FNQ)
I have KAB air
suspension seats in the F250. (best, most comfortable
seat I ever sat in) but ....... there is a leak somewhere to the passenger
seat and it's driving me around the bend.
System works like this: small compressor on pressure switch fills receiver
tank mounted to chassis. From there small diameter (approx 8mm OD) hard plasic air hose goes inside cab. T fitting to one
seat then continues to other
seat. The far
seat stays pumped up the near
seat goes down. So there is a leak, but how to find it, i have used soapy
water, thin oil, no go.
Apart from all that how do these air hoses and fittings work, it looks like the hose just pushes into the fittings, no nuts or seals to thighten them. If that is the case how do you fix or replace them?
Where do you get the hose and fittings from?
So... where do I start without driving myself mad?
Reply By: Flywest - Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:54
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:54
Hey GT
I too have a couple KAB seats, in the boat - but these are gas strut
suspension seats - not the air variety.
When I needed parts - it turned out theres a trucking place in Picton WA just outside Bunbury who were the agents for KAB in WA.
They were able to source any parts I needed - like new gas struts.
I honestly can't remember the name of the joint - it's a couple hundred km's away from me now - but if any member were to drive along that road, you can' miss the big trucking place in Picton on the north side of the road.
Hopefully someone who's a member here will know the joint...I don't even have the WA country telephone book yellow pages to look it up for you.
Good luck with it - the F 250 stock seats are nothing to write home about - I can understand fitting KAB seats to an F truck.
Sorry I can't be any more help than that!
Cheers
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Reply By: Lex M (Brisbane) - Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:55
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:55
Do you mean this kind of fitting?
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You push the sleeve in while pulling the hose out.
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Reply By: Rossc0 - Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 13:57
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 13:57
Get them from Enzed or similar.
Cheers
Ross
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Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 16:13
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 16:13
Try a transport organisation like Mercedes.
We had leaks in a Air bus
seat and had a few probs fixing it . It was I think a hose fitting so sounds like the others are on the right track.
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Reply By: greenant - Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 16:59
Tuesday, Jul 07, 2009 at 16:59
Hi Gone Troppo
Home brew shops have these fittings for co2 lines used in keg systems
Greenant
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Reply By: Member - MUZBRY(Vic) - Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:32
Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:32
Gday
You push the sleeve in, then pull out the hose, just nip off the end of the hose and push hose all the way in.The hose must go past the "O" ring inside the fitting and into the jaws that hold the hose ..A little soap wont hurt.
Murray
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Reply By: GoneTroppo Member (FNQ) - Thursday, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:52
Thursday, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:52
Thanks everyone I think I'm on the right track now.
Must admit I never thought of trying a homebrew
shop.
Plan now is to pull everything to bits and check and/or replace working from the airbag backwards.
Most amazing
forum this, ask anything no matter how obscure and you generally get a few gems to get on with.
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