I want to see some air ride set-ups. Tank locations, control arm fabs, neat ways to hide your compressor, z-ed sections, c-nothces, whatever mechanical components you want. I have been lookin all over the place and there seems to be pieces everywhere but no specific location for all of them. Oh yeah, post the pics. of your vehicle with them too, may as well. If this exists on this site already, I apologize I didnt see it (and I did look).
Heres my notch and bag install on my 53 dodge pickup heres a picture of the tank and compressor mounted (before i mounted the 2nd compressor and cleaned up the wiring) heres it all finished Justin
My tank and solenoid placement: 1" x 1" square tube welded on the top of the tank with nut-serts to mount the solenoids, the compressor sits on a rubber mounted plate spaced off the uneven floor. Control panel: used ash tray door with a wide double hinge on one side and a magnet to keep it closed. Marty McFly
Hey buddy. Here's a shot of my set up mounted in the bed of my 53. Only have the front done for now. Hoping to have the rear done in another month or so? Already have the components, just need the notch. TATER
I didnt know you had started pretty much the same thread this morning. Sorry for being redundant!! Last nite when i was doing research i couldnt find one!! Ian
I built new sweeping c-notch rails on my 56 f100. with the air out, the running boards sit a level 1 3/4" of the ground.
Looks like I used components very similar to Marty McFly's in my Galaxie These are mounted right under the package tray Malcolm .
Thats a good setup. That accuair cleans it up nice. I dig the drain and the air line hookup. I have the same on mine.
I wasn't ashamed of how it looked before, but the accuair system really cleaned it up! There's a water trap before the tank, a ballcock purge valve coming out the bottom of the tank, and another water trap between the tank and the manifold. I drain em everytime we drive it. The accuair management system has really made the car a pleasure to drive. I shot plenty of photos of the installation...I'll see if I can't get a write-up together soon.
heres mine.. had it all set up to hide all the valves in the 1/4 panels... but flipped the tanks so I can work on shit easier.. this is before final wiring and air lines.. but gives you an idea.. i love it cause when i was all done I had a slow leak, and the valves being in the open made it SO easy to find!
I used Firestone tapered sleeve bags at the rear of my 51 Chevy, and 6in Slam Specialties up front on the Jag suspension. Put a couple of 2x3 box-section cross members to support the triangulated 4-link control arms. It's not super low, but low enough for me. Haven't hooked up the compressors or tank yet.
i asked on another air thread before and never got an answer, so ill try again. how does this rear set up work? i dont see how it would ever flex enough, though the solid mounts at the rear end and a urthane bushing on the front.i t seems like a bad binding issue is in the making here.
It is a vertical ladder bar with a urathane bushing that pivot in the front only and is mounted ridged to the axle. Simulare to a drag race car I have been using this degine for about 15 years now with excellent results especialy when the car has some real hp. This desgine clears most stock floor pan better than any 4 bar setup. We also set our pinon angle at -2 deg at max ride heigth so when its lowered all the way the neg pinon angle increases to about -6 deg which results in alot more drive shaft clearnce than a 4 bar set up can. Resulting in No need to rework the drive shaft tunnel for clearnce. This 50's olds frame required 0 floor or trunk pan mods to lay frame
EXK you do some killer work! i wish i lived down the street from you and i had a winning lotto ticket!!! keep it up sir! hows that 800 hp merc coming? not to high jack post im cause im interested in the original subject!
I have tons of pics but they are all late truck stuff (been doing bags for over 15 years). This is a shot of a customers setup before interior and the other dryer was installed. The valves are mounted behind the tank.
This is a few of the ones that I've done over the years. This is from about 6 years ago so that is why the small compressors. This was mounted right behind the rear bumper. The front valves were in the front this is just the rear valves, but the whole bracket unbolted w/just 3 bolts, so everything could be serviced on a bench. I like to hide all of the lines and clean stuff up the best that I can. This was in the back of a crewcab dually The cross is chromed, on bearings and spins...
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