airing up tires ?

[GWolgamott]

.... You can spend 3 times as much on nice compressors to save 4 minutes though. Joking aside, if and when this cheap POS dies then might actually look at a better one. Needed one on short notice so got what could find off the shelf one day only reason got what I have.

i went in with the "buy once, cry once" mentality
...
Saving time is less about the individual minutes or seconds saved for me and more about the resistance to change. My nature is pretty lazy, so making something easy to do doesn't just make it easier, it also makes it significantly more likely to happen in the first place.

same reason i spent $500 on autolynx over the notably cheaper JKS quick disconnects. i'd read stories about how the JKS system can be a pain to reconnect, and sometimes even disconnect if you can't find perfectly flat ground and knew that any system that's going to give me problems is a system that's probably going to get skipped a lot. time savings there? easily less than a minute. BUT, but I use my autolynx every time i'm offroad so the extra cost is worth it to me.

That was joking mostly in case missed that. But I think it highly depends where you are, what you are doing, if you are in fact airing down often and my tendency to just being minimalist on some things as well.

It is not a case of buy once cry once, I wouldn't think. More of what do you need? I'm not in an area where I generally air down most of the time and the POS one I have gets job done in minimal enough time and hasn't burned up yet. It's cheap and if used it regularly it is not even close to the category of "go this route" more of a if you do it only once in a while option. If I needed on board air then I'd have it already. But I realized after buying one literally off a random shelf when I needed for a trip the next day I knew I needed to be aired down, that hadn't had a need to buy the ones I was looking at.

But I get the point, I keep looking and will at some point will get the autolynx because those I'd actually use and are actually useful to me. Because well yeah I'm too lazy to spend 10 minutes wrneching the links manually off most of the time.

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[vicsvx]

Ez flate moab with the 4 tire hose system

 

[MPMB]

I got a cheap yet functional portable multi-function pump from Lowe's. It's a "2-drink lunch" speed pump.

 

[nbennettksu]

Milwaukee M18 portable; takes me about 3-3.5 min per tire going from 15psi to 30psi in my 40" Trail Grapplers. I can do it in one oversized batteries or 3 with standard M18 battery and the last tire with another batt.

Link to compressor

 

[JKenTex]

450P EF Automatic+ & 7-Way Connector and Speed along with a Speedflate 4x Orange.

It's so easy I've aired up everything from a friends trailer and multiple other cars (sometimes my daughters, in the parking lot where she works) I realized it could be a little pocket change as a side gig to complement the not working, I do the rest of the time. :D

 

[JTdiRtyD]

Moorflate Tensix PSI Pro with 4 tire hose. It's really nice to set the desired pressure and walk away. No more sitting there watching the gauge, stopping it every minute to check where its at.

It's especially nice when it's raining and you forgot your rain jacket at home........

 

[whiteglad]

Maddox inflator from Harbor Freight
12V, 125 PSI High-Performance Inflator

 

[WILDHOBO]

4 hoses system from Speedflate, aka @TJ Mitchell Films. Very similar to the one @Mightytalldude has. Using co2 from preece products. Not including hooking up the hoses to the tank mounted near the back of the bed, I can air up 4 37’s in about 30 seconds. I previously used the m18 2 gallon Milwaukee compressor with the same hoses. That was about 5 minutes not including hookups.

 

[TheModernJeeper]

I used the harbor freight bauer electric auto inflator for a year and it worked fine.

I purchased the temu arb twin clone and it works great. The wiring that comes on there caught on fire (too hot) so i just rewired. As far as i can tell, no other bugs.

 

[Sweetums]

"Caught on fire" is one hell of a "bug"

 

[ericw.]

I use a twin piston compressor from a company that went out of business/was absorbed into another company.

I also use the 4 tire inflation hoses from Speedflate.

If I did it again today, I'd go with Morrflate's TenSix with the PSI monitoring system.

 

[Tim. Y.]

I went with the Viair 88p, then added the 7pin adapter.

 

[Sweetums]

I went with the Viair 88p, then added the 7pin adapter.

Tell me more...

I have a 400P compressor as my main, it pulls 30 amps at 12v - which is the max the 7 pin can provide if I'm reading this right. I don't think it has an SAE plug on the power cord either, so I'd have to add one and still carry clamps as a backup.

Might be worthwhile to build it. Might not.

 

[Tim. Y.]

Tell me more...

More...

https://viaircorp.com/products/92934-92935-bundle-kit

 

[Sweetums]

I think I want to re-do my compressor setup anyway. I built it into an Apache case and the compressor gets too hot to put the hoses in the box after use. I think I need to do a smaller case for the compressor and maybe rivet a soft bag to the lid for the hoses...

This might work if I run the power out to an SAE plug on the outside of the box so the wiring doesn't melt either...
Hmmm....

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