Airkewled's 2006 DCSB

Quick test after the Saturday morning hike. Optional direct line up the Z-turns on Moab Rim.


After some more wheeling, the gosh dang coil slider is loud. Sheesh, I mean if race car fine, but groaning and moaning like a ______ um, use your imagination.


So I'm trying out these 3-piece units from AGM. They are a tighter fit and well I hope this helps.


Apologies for the vertical pictures. So this is some beef I have with Fusion. I haven't been able to get them on the horn yet about this. My axle came assembled wrong and this was the like very last thing after full assembly to the truck to notice. The wheel bearing flange? IDK what to call it, that the speed sensors go into is wrong. Either a passenger put on the driver or a driver put on 180˚ around but the bolt hole is 180˚ off, on the top when it should be on the bottom. You can see how then the connector would be pointed straight into the backing plate. NO GOOD. I did try a passenger side speed sensor but that didn't work, ABS threw and error code which wouldn't clear unless it had a driver side sensor in it. So...


So yeah, Got to drill and tap this right, which is a pain because you need to clear the backing plate. First I thought I might have to remove the backing plate but OMG.. that's a process, so I was able to find a 3/16 long bit and a 13/64 1/4 drive bit locally. So with the long bit I got a nice straight hole, and then the 13/64 could just follow it and ream it out to the right size for tapping.


And with square tap socket thing and an extension I could tap it fine.


I should not have to do this on a seven THOUSAND dollar axle. Not happy about that and I hope they make me right. In any case, it's fixed, my speed sensors are all happy, and the ABS, Brake & CEL lights all are cleared and the speedometer works again. So overall Win!

 

I blew the line from the compressor that feeds the manifold when running it for 15+ minutes of air up (me and another rig). This is 3/8 PTC line and it blew right by the compressor so I was thinking maybe it got hot and soft and that's why. So off with the fender again, and add some silicon fiberglass insulation tubing stuff. Also a check valve so try and not loose air back flowing through the compressor. I got to thinking, this could also be a failure from hot air coming from the compressor basically heating it up from the inside which maybe is why there's such a thing as leader lines but I don't know... if any of you do, post up.

 

Installed monster valves. I have Staun deflators which were great, but man that takes a long time with the 39's.
The place on the wheel for these was a tad narrow, so I both widened the footprint and made it nice and flat with a forstner bit. Then after followed through with the regular drill and tap.
I do like being able to chuck on the gauge at the same time as airing up/down so you can just monitor it, not like air up some, check gauge, air up more...