Heine's Ramblings and Rumblings

Firestone Air Helpers

Initially I had these fitted when I had the camper attached. Since I have gone over to the AHA , they only really get used for leveling the car when camping

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This tank gets pressurised by the ARB pump in the engine bay and is on a pressure switch , which is quite handy as it means I always have air immediately available.

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The pressure in the bags can be adjusted with this in-cab controller pictured below

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The bags can also be inflated manually with the 2 connectors (red and black pipes seen here) .

The coupling on the right is for my tyre inflation hose , which also uses the reservoir , so pumping up tyres is pretty quick  compared to just using a compressor

 

5 thoughts on “Firestone Air Helpers

  1. Mike Nieuwoudt's avatar

    … and if you want to short term cross link them for a specific purpose, you can do it with a short jumper pipe between the two valves.

  2. Mike Nieuwoudt's avatar

    BTW, I see very long exposed threads on your U-bolts. The thread can easily be damaged, making bolt removal(should it be necessary some time) a pain. I find that pushing (actually more screwing) a tight fitting piece of clear PVC, nylon, PU, or rubber pipe over the exposed thread help to protect them.

  3. Clyde Uys's avatar

    Hi there

    please can you advise as to where i can buy the Firestone ride rites from in S.A , and who are the distributors

    thanks

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