Air bag valves

[Big Jim]

Where have you put yours ? Has anyone put them in the cab , on the dash or centre console ? It would be easy to inflate when it's cold and raining from a cigarette power point .

[sabconsulting]

Mine are mounted on a bracket below the back of the truck.

A friend piped his through to the cab of his truck, plumbed into a compressor with valves and pressure gauge so he could adjust the pressure with the press of a button from the driver's seat.

Steve.

[derestrictor]

Nobody says you cant' run the air lines into the cab do they, it makes sense to have them inboard out of the dirt anyway,
and as you say, the access to handy 12V outlet for the compressor

[derestrictor]

or as Zildjian did, add a complete kit with remote


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[Bookend]

Mine are in the centre cubby box but I also fitted a onboard compressor so can control both inflate and deflate from the drivers seat.

There is no reason why a manual setup with a plug in compressor or garage air line couldn't be the same.

It's better in the cab if it's raining saves getting wet

[Alexd]

recently helped fit a reversing camera to a Mitsubishi pickup and owner had the small wire come from back of vehicle forwards then up into cabin via and handy rubber bung below drivers seat ( we made a hole in the rubber itself and passed wires through) i think its a sort of water damage drainage hole but not sure, handy anyway

[Mike]

I just received my new kit this week from Marcelle leisure one of our sponsors here. I was wondering if I might fit the valves and guage block in the engine bay there is a handy empty area just behind the nearside front lights which would house a compressor as well I think, just worried about heat and it might get mucky up there, if anyone has any thoughts all welcolme.

[zildjian]

For ease of use the gauges really should be somewhere in the cabin ideally, compressor anywhere out of sight, so under the bonnet (on rubber washers/grommets) is ideal I'd say and keeps the fused power supply handy too

[Toshbins]

Ive got a kit on order. Is it a good idea to have it somewhere so that you can see what is happening as you pump it up?
Did I hear that some people use it while unloading the camper - I.e. pump it up high, lower the jacks, deflate and at least reduce the amount of jacking needed on the legs?

[saDgit]

Did I hear that some people use it while unloading the camper - I.e. pump it up high, lower the jacks, deflate and at least reduce the amount of jacking needed on the legs?

Yeah, and vice versa. On our SKarosser/Ranger combination the camper legs would need to be at, or very near, their maximum extension in order to load the camper. And that high up the camper always feels very vulnerable. Deflating the Air-rides as far as possible (around 10psi) would drop the pickup bed sufficiently to make loading significantly easier and quicker.