4 Way Tire Inflation system.

[Xado89]

I found this write up online. It seems like a really cool and easy idea. Credit for doing this does NOT go to me. I only stumbled upon this cool deal. The best part is, even the guy who did it owns and Xterra! Maybe someone on here already?

Check the link for the page he made.

http://2manytoyz.com/4air.html

 

[J Everett]

I have thought about that exact thing many times, and yet I never put the effort into making it. Good find!

 

[Timrich]

I like that!

 

[Tay-Lo]

I have been thinking about this aswell.....I'm planning on mounting a compressor in the bumper so I at least need a long hose. But I was more of thinking a semi permanant install, Like underneath and out to each tire. There would be the hose from the compressor to a 4 way (one in, 2 to the tires 1 out) then into a 3 way (1 in and 2 to the other tires).

 

[2011XTERROR]

that is neat. cool find.

 

[Intender]

I dont see this working very well unless your parked on extremely flat and level ground. The air is always going to go to the path of least resistance, so if the car is leaning towards any side its going to have more weight on those tires and not fill up evenly. The same problem will happen with deflating, the ones with more weight will deflate faster. only way to fix this would be to put a passive regulator on each tire so it would shut off when its at the desired level. But when this happens you can no longer use it to deflate, unless you had each of them on a small section of hose with quick release chucks on each tire so you could pull them off, but by this point its getting rather expensive. Its a good concept, and could be used to fill up your tires and deflate quicker, but i would still use something else to get my pressures right where I want them when inflating or deflating.

 

[Alpine Spirit]

It will work but too much hose to mess with and move around for me.

 

[2011XTERROR]

I dont see this working very well unless your parked on extremely flat and level ground. The air is always going to go to the path of least resistance, so if the car is leaning towards any side its going to have more weight on those tires and not fill up evenly. The same problem will happen with deflating, the ones with more weight will deflate faster. only way to fix this would be to put a passive regulator on each tire so it would shut off when its at the desired level. But when this happens you can no longer use it to deflate, unless you had each of them on a small section of hose with quick release chucks on each tire so you could pull them off, but by this point its getting rather expensive. Its a good concept, and could be used to fill up your tires and deflate quicker, but i would still use something else to get my pressures right where I want them when inflating or deflating.

there are plenty of adapters you can get to stabilize the pressure to each hose end. there are many ways around the "path of least resistance aka open diff" theory. not saying what you're saying is wrong, because they way that it is set up in the photo you're completely right, but with the right valves it's doable

 

[Intender]

I said it was doable, but would become expensive in the process. I see it as being more hassle than its worth if its not a contained system that can air each tire up to the correct pressure without me having to do anthing other than connect and disconnect. If I have to go around and check each tire individually afterwords and keep adding or realeasing air to each tire until its where it is supposed to be it serves little purpose for me. I can connect my air pump to a tire, walk away and check the pressure after a few minutes and and accomplish the same thing. But my compressor will screw on to the valves so I dont have to hold it on, where I think most you have to hold down. I personally prefer my ARB deflator over this idea for deflating. Its really fast, and very accurate. but something like this would be nice when airing up if you bought regulators that would cut off the flow to each tire as it hit the right pressure. The only time it would save for me would be the possible extra time swapping my connector from one tire to the other.

 

[2011XTERROR]

yeah i agree with you. good idea but needs some fine tuning. how much are the ARB ones? too lazy to look lol

 

[granitex]

lots of work for no real benifit, for the larger events you air down at the beginning of the week and stay that way untill you are ready to leave.

 

[xterraminator]

As cool as it is to him, if i were to pull that out after a long day of trail riding i would be the laughing stock. Just not that cool in my books. Kind of silly. Call me old school, one tire at a time.

 

[knightrider]

I did something similar, 4 seemed like way too much hose so I built a 2 tire system so I could do one side at a time. I still use staun tire deflators because they are much easier to deploy.

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[metzican]

The only way I could see this as being cool is if you had a OBA, Ran a metal airline within the frame to each tire and just and to go around and clip on a short hose from a tire to the attachment. Then with the cost it would be overkill.

 

[xterraminator]

Running OBA in the back and then have two lines run to the back bumper and another line to the front with a bulkhead fitting and air quick disconnects at each end looks nice. Very functional as well. All hoses and lines would be hidden.

 

[knightrider]

clip on a short hose from a tire to the attachment.

This was my original plan and I may still do it, but my system now allows me quick enough fill ups, and I only had to run one drop to the rear bumper. Plus 2 tire system has a large 60psi easy to read guage and a quarter turn shutoff for quick pressure checks while airing up.

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