On board Air!

tech701

tech701

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Whats the best electric on board air pump for the money to get? The wife said she'll get me one for Christmas this year!!!!!
 
If, and I say if, I were going to go with an electric aire compressor, I would go with the Oasis. Heavy duty motor, bomb proof York. Add a tank to it, and you can pretty much run anything with it.
 
yeah, in another section he said he was retaining his AC. But not sure of his set up, with a little fab and leg work he may be able to add it to what he has.
 
An on board air set up with a tank to run small air tools is what I want. I'd like to get an electric pump since I run a sami. I'll spend up to $350 or so on a good one. I've never had a/c in it.
 
I'd def go with a York or sanden. I bought a toyota comp for $25.00 shipped it's not a york but will work. I've seen may people make their own brackets and it's worked fine. I think without compressor you will have $100.00 in parts - regulator, air pressure guage, disconnect fittings, blowoff valve, Manifold, tool oiler & Misc tubing. It's a far better setup than electric. I think $300.00 will also cover that CO2 air system as well. I've never watched anyone use it but I think most people who have it on the board like it.
 
I put my CO2 system together for somewhere around $200 ($75 or so for an Ebay aluminum tank, $40 for the regulator, the rest for a hose, impact gun and impact sockets). I got the regulator from 4x4rockshop. The hose is a decent spring coil hose from Sears. The impact gun and sockets are cheap ones from harbor freight.

So far I'm very happy with the setup. I've used it to air up and I've used the impact to change a tire. There are certainly pros and cons for all systems, but for portability and usability and price, the CO2 setup is certainly a good option in my opinion.

Jeff
 
when i had my zuke... i used a small sanden. Find the mini size it worked awsome and took up far less space than anyother setup.. until the very end i ran it right off the pump and while you couldn't run air tools or stuff, it was MORE than enough to fill a tire and seat a bead..

Here's where you look... Goto the junk yard and on look for ANY small suzuki motor based car. This includes: zukes, sidekicks, geo metro, suzuki sprints etc.. I find the ones with the 1.0L 3cyls work best as no one messes with the micro cars.. BUT its the same block as the zukes.. Grab the pump and bracket AND grav the main crank pully off the engine. Make sure its V-belt not serp (unless thats what you got) and for under $50 you should be all set.. hook up a pressure switch and your all set..

and fwiw for a while i didnt even have a switch, i used an open chuck and had a wire i cliped to the battery to turn it on... It just started pumping air (blowing out the open chuck) and was still more than enough to fill tires..
 
I'm already running power steering with hydro assist off of the little fellow. Do I have the room or the power for any more belts? Also, how long will a CO2 tank normally last before a refill is neccessary?
 
I don't think you wil have a problem with power at all. The comp doesn't run unless you throw the switch to turn it on. I don't know about room. I would only guess you do though since some Zuks came with AC factory.
 
tech701 said:
how long will a CO2 tank normally last before a refill is neccessary?
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I'm still on my first tank, so I can't say for sure. I've got a scale that I've been trying to monitor how fast I'm using mine and here's what I've seen so far:

- I topped off the air in my 35" tires, adding between 2 and 4 psi to 5 tires.
- I topped off the air on my wife's Jeep (30" tires) adding between 2 and 4 psi to 5 tires.
- I used the impact gun to remove a tire and put it back on (5 lugs off, 5 lugs on) twice.

So far I've used about 2 lbs out of my 15 lb bottle.

It cost me $25 to get the bottle filled at National Welder's Supply. I've heard it's maybe $5 less if you go to a place that fills beer kegerators.
 
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