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Air to Spare

This is now moving from a radio blog to a Landrover modding blog I fear.

Two deliveries today. One from Matt Savage which had the air reservoir

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I have an ARB compressor in the truck but that doesn’t have enough reserve to pump the mast up. So I am adding 2 gallon Vair tank. That goes under the drivers side.

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The pump feeds the tank and I have moved the pressure switch to the tank from the pump.

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The tank also has a drain valve and a pressure release valve as well

Here is the pump with the plastic pressure hose going off to the tank

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Now the pump is not that great a capacity and takes a couple of minutes to fill the reservoir so we will see tomorrow how it works with the mast.

The tank feeds another outlet, this time regulated, at the rear

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Then the steel came for the supports to stop the truck rocking so much.

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the idea being that it pins to the tow bar thing and has a couple of bars that go into the jacking points

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Its being painted overnight so hopefully tomorrow we can test it all together and decide if another higher volume pump is needed.



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