OK I am getting ready to get my oba. I am going with VIAIR for two reasons I have one on the TJ and love it, and they are sponsors. What I want to know is: does the tank speed up tire inflation that much? Do you keep pressure in the tank or will I have to pressurize it right before I start to fill tires. If its not a big time saver I would like to save the tank space and get a higher end 100% duty compressor. The one on my tj is tank less and sometimes in the 120 degree weather mounted under the hood overheats and shuts down. Will a tank help this? (the jk compressor will not be under the hood.)

 

in order for the take to be of a benefit to airing up, it will need to be filled prior to inflating. the best part of having a tank is that you can use air tools but, if you're just looking for something to air up with, you can probably bypass the tank.

 

Do you think the heavy duty set up will run an air ratchet to take off the wheel lugs?

 

slowly but, yes, it should work. it'll just charge up a lot.

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

i had a 450C mounted in my TJ with the tank mounted on the front bumper. set a bead once, just had to let it fill. mainly used to air up tires after a trail run and blow the dust out of the interior as well. did use it to open up 5 man hole covers on a barge, slow but still faster and less work than using a wrench. compressor ran the whole time without any hicups.

 

Tank wouldn't do much for you in just airing up tires unless it takes you a really long time to walk from one tire to another. Tanks are great for running tools, etc. but if you are just airing up, the compressor would work the same total time with or without a tank. Not beingmounted under the hood, you shouldn't see any issues with duty cycles either. The time between one tire and the next will give it a chance to cool some where if you were recharging a tank it would run the entire time from tire 1 to tire 4.

I had a tank on my TJ with a York setup and it worked great with an impact wrench/socket but I'd never really open the tank when just airing up.

 

Thanks for the info. Texazjk you said that you wouldn't open the tank up when airing up. I am assuming that If you could bypass the tank I should be able to set it up so I could take the tank out and still use the compressor for normal use and put the tank in for longer multi-day trips?

 

from what ive looked into, go with co2 man, the $15 refill every so often is worth it to me. i'm getting a setup asap!

 

Sorry for the delayed post gentleman and ladies. But for those of you who are interested in running air tools in addition to airing up and some other things, your best bet (as it pertains to our line, but this still hold true with a majority of the manufacturers out there) is our 33% duty cycle units (dual 33% is optimum) becasue of the higher CFM ratings. In almost all of the applications that are out there 33% duty units are going to be the best fit and keep you satisfied. The 100% units are rated as such because their extended run times are a dirct result of slower motor operation.

Sean