Pressure Switch for Air Compressor

Try Nippon Air out Ringwood way . The man to contact is Craig on 03 9874 3222. They make the Air on Board systems for 4wd's . I bought a new pressure switch that came on at 80 psi and off at 120 psi but they will be able to give you your information re off at 150 psi.

Will the ARB pump up to 150psi? If it does, will this shorten the life of the compressor?
Cheers,
Dion.

Hi John, funny this post is the first on the forum when I openned it up as I had just got off this site checking out pressure switches for my Boss system as it came with a 110-150 PSI switch and the compressor will not pump up above 120 PSI so will probably source one around 100-120<>. At work I deal with a company called Industrial Fitting Sales here in Brisbane and they manufacture and sell brass fittings and guages . I bought a liquid filled pressure guage to use with the Boss system and it was a good price( cant find my receipt at the moment). I see a warning about ARB copmressors and pressure switches on this site.
pressure switches
Cheers Rob Mac

John

I was down at ARB Dandenong last week and bought a couple of these switches.

The dude serving me asked me if I wanted 70 - 100psi or (I think) 100 - 150psi ones.

A conversation ensued at the end of which he stated to me that ARB were moving up to the 100 - 150psi ones as a new standard.

Learn something new every day.

I purchased the 70 - 100psi ones that he left in stock and departed.

Sooooooooooo! you can make of that what you like. Maybe a phone call to ARB HQ's might assist you.

Regards

DD

ok i dont have air lockers.... or any "lockers" for that matter but after reading a few threads on this and other problems with the air delivery to activate them i will put forward an idea that i myself (if i had them ..) would do if i ever fit them.....
Convert them to "hydraulic" using the same oil as you are using in the diff, the seals in the piston (or whatever it uses) in the diff will need changing, well they may actually not if standard "o" rings, the flexable hose from chassis will need to be changed and very simple to run a standard steel tubing up to the cab (brake line) and up in the cab a simple lever to a "master" cyl very much alike a clutch/brake pedal with a sping to hold constant pressure on it so it stays engauged, a simple "over-center" lever would suffice .....
Or if you want to get tricky, an electricial solinoid, vacuum line tee'd from brakes to solinoid, solinoid to booster that pushes onto a master cyl that pushes fluid to the slave in the diff, then you have a simple little button on the dash, hit the button and no noisy compressor running, no braking loss as it will only draw vacuum when it starts the initial "suck".....

No compressor to be running constantly, piston and seals will last forever as they are lubed at all times, on chance of air pressurising the diff housing and causing leaks, if it leaks it will simply add a little the existing ........ would only need about 300ml to fill complete system i would guess and that will no hurt the diff.....
The cost of a good compressor to run like that, the cost of switches, tanks, wiring, air lines ect ...... it may well even work out cheaper and be far more reliable....
Anyway think about it as if and when i fit one i WILL convert it to "hydraulic" as i dont want all the hassels i have been reading about
Cheers
Joe