Chandler's Battleship of Doom

Have you cut your rear flares yet?

 

Nah; i drilled holes and painted them; probably will sometime this week. Need to get my front shocks rebuilt so i kind of turned focus to that.

 

I need to rebuild mine with new springs. You gonna recharge them with nitrogen yourself or have a shop do it?

 

I just forked out the cash for nitrogen/tank and supplies to do it myself back when i had icon rears; after i did the rears i sold them and bought kings. Its pretty damn easy to rebuild, its gonna take me a while to understand the revalving process. Ive been talking to Downsouth so they got me in a good direction to revalve the fronts. Just learning it all really.

Plus i can use the nitrogen for tire refills if necessary and is $10 per bottle refill here so im ok with it.

 

Hah I never thought of that, makes it more appealing now since Ive been wanting a tank for a back up to the compressor. I wonder how many fill ups you could expect from a smaller tank

 

5-7 fill ups from 15-35 psi from a smaller tank like 10lbs

Meaning i could fill up 4 tires about 5-7 times

 

Good deal, what regulator and fill hose did you end up with?

 

Ill prob change that number to 3-5 refills for 4 tires since i got 35s now.

I got all my shit from powertank, they had the most complete kit with a good price

Wait for memorial day to save a few bucks

 

piece it together for a fraction of the price. I'm only in $70 bucks for my 20lb setup, including the tank and 150psi regulator from Sierra.

 

Filled up this morning at 230 corrected miles for a 13mpg average. I had to make a 50 mile trip for a meeting this morning, heavy wind and averaged 11mpg on the way there while driving 75-80mph. On the way back with heavy wind I drafted a semi at 63mph and averaged 20mpg by the time I got home. Pretty crazy how much it can fluctuate

 

Surprised you don't get better than that. But granted you are on 37s and maintaining what my truck gets.

 

Looking more and more at @inv3ctiv3 flippac makes me think about getting one for myself or even a habitat even more. If I wanted to put this years big mods on hold I think I could swing one later in the year, so I figured id do a shitty photoshop to see what it would look like.

 

Well the majority of the roads I travel are always windy so that never helps plus I drive far from conservative

 

If nitrogen is similar to co2, I refilled 20 tires (14lbs-38lbs) out of my 10lb co2 tank.

 

co2 will fill more tires if both tanks are the same size, but finding a true difference seems to be difficult.

 

Ah, okay. I wasn't sure if there was a difference between the two.

 

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/general-4x4-discussion/1095857-nitrogen-vs-co2-powertank.html

Some info on the subject, but id like to know what the real difference is. If a co2 tank is refilling 20 times, what is the n2 capable of

 

Forward flip would be ideal, the rear flip has its upsides like a covered area over the entrance and able to use the roof rack. Still waiting on iggys too...

 

Okay, the answer is in the link you provided. The nitrogen is stored as a gas in the tank, similar to an air compressor tank. Co2 is stored as a liquid and changes to a gas, which gives the co2 the much greater volume.

 

If a bike could fit in the bed opening and we didn't have short bed problems that require the tailgate down anyways id go for one