South Carolina BS thread under new MANAGEMENT and lives in SC

It’s crazy how expensive trailer storage is down here! Out in Montana I had 2 10x50 spots for $50 total. Down here it’s around $100 for a single spot. Another reason why we bought instead of renting. Will have plenty of room to store our trailers now.

 

Damn dude, sorry to hear that. Home owner is worried the housing market will crash? That may be the case but it's not like its going to stay down, maybe like a year or two if that. In the big scope of things, that's nothing. I understand their concern though, I wouldn't want to be out whatever inflated value they think the house is worth. Buy low, sell high.

-J

 

Any charleston locals here with a shop that can help me put on my eibach lift with rear OME dakar leafs?

 

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Is the ARB single sufficient for airing up skinny 33's or should I do a Twin? Planning to put it in the bed cubby, I don't plan to run tools, I don't plan to get larger tires. Pic for attention.

 

Should be fine, definitely will be slower than a twin.

 

Yeah it’s my plan to buy when I return from my deployment. Which is 2nd quarter next year.

 

We did not want to buy at all but with rental prices being as crazy as they are and interest rates being 2.99% for a 30 year fixed it was a no brainer. Who wants to help remodel a house with us!?

 

twin on a slee mount in the engine bay. wit's end quick connect/disconnect and pacifier

 

I was going to put it in the bed so I could use it for bike tires easily, but I guess I could just run an air line under the truck and mount a chuck in the rear bumper....

 

I have one in the engine bay, and planning on putting a second one in my rear bumper so i dont have to pop the hood if i dont want

The cubby mounted single would still work good, and a lot cheaper.

 

As mentioned before, if you go run trails and a few extra minutes airing tires kill you, maybe you shouldn’t go. But I get the more power aspect as well.

https://youtu.be/l8kThoZpF_U

 

That's what I was thinking, I'm not trying to drop a grand on this, just want something a little better than the cheapo compressor in a bag that I currently have.

 

I picked up one of these

VIAIR 400P - 40043 Tire Inflator Portable Offroad Air Compressor for Truck & SUV | 12V On/Off Road Tire Pump Air Compressor Portable Heavy Duty 150 PSI, up to 35" Tires, Alligator Clips

Viair compressors. Suits my needs well. Only thing I would change is to swap out a longer electrical cables. I'd have to go up one wire size. The air hose stretches to reach the back tires just fine but it's stretched a bit tight to reach the back passenger hence the need for longer electrical leads. The motor will get super hot on the 3rd to 4th tire and the thermal cutoff kicks on.

-J

 

Check the specs on it, it may not be better enough to matter. The

$132 Smittybilt 2780 2.54 CFM Universal Air Compressor , Black

Smittybilt 2780 I have is 72LPM max flow (max flow = 0psi load), ARB single is 75LPM at 0psi. I also hard mounted it under the hood, it's not plug-n-play the way I am using it, because stock it uses an open-chuck.

 

I have the same one, and never had it kick off. It can get really f'n hot though. It's a great unit too, works well.

 

Sounds like you don’t have young kids. I thought the same as you until I had 2 kids that are crying. Maybe I just need a louder compressor to drown out the sounds of their cries.

 

Any charleston locals with a trailer(or a few) willing to cart some crap from cleaning out dads garage to dump (one end of bees ferry to the other)? Damn trash ppl just keep driving by it, slowing down and hauling ass away. Kinda pissed bc neighbor said they take that crap.......

 

I ran over mine when it was sitting in the garage and bent the base and cracked the aluminum handle. I lucked out that it didn't crush the whole pump so I can attest to its ruggedness. I had a tough time finding a replacement aluminum core for the handle so I had to fabricate a replacement from some aluminum tube stock drilled and tapped and replace the brass npt fittings on the pump at air fitting to match the thread pitch on my taps. It was a nice learning project but now, other than the scrapes and tire marks, it works very well. I only had it thermal cutoff just once and I was running it a lot and yes, it does get very hot. The case fits nicely behind the seat. I will eventually move to an under-hood ARB compressor but it's not a priority since I'm not running air lockers. This portable unit fits my needs quite nicely for now.

-J

 

He's old, so he has time to sit around and read the newspaper while his tires air up.