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For a seat-of the pants estimate, it takes my chitty CH impact and CH walmart compressor more time and motor restarts/shotoffs to fill up a 33x12.5 than it does to rattle off the 6 lugs holding it on.
Enough air to fill 35-40 35" tires??!! That'll probably run a rattle wrench until you're waaay too drunk to actually drive the fixed rig home. I guess it would depend on the fix, but if you use the impact sparingly, just to rip off lug nuts and break the really tight stuff, I wouldn't worry about running out of CO2 on a weekend.
If anyone's placing an order to that beverage place, let me get in on it and split shipping.

an impact gun needs alot of pressure and volume to work well, can you put that amount through a regular regulator???

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Originally posted by AgDieseler

The filled weight on my bottle is 36 lbs. As a safety precaution, bottles are filled with one less pound than rated, so there are 14 lbs of CO2 in the tank. That leaves approximately 22 lbs. shipping weight.

Using the UPS quick cost calculator and the overall dimensions that were provided on the BeverageFactory website, the shipping of a 15lb tank would probably be in the neighborhood of $12-15 for regular UPS ground.

$95 tank + shipping = ~ $107-110

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or you can just click "add to shopping cart," go to checkout, and find that they only ship FedEx, at $15.95 for a 15 pounder, and $21.95 for a 20.

an impact gun needs alot of pressure and volume to work well, can you put that amount through a regular regulator???

Also, the most use i have seen an OBA get used was mine at Mason in the summer. A guy with buggy/FJ40 broke his crossmember that held his 4 link on. He had to use an air grinder for about 15 minutes to get it to fit again.

Thats what i want to have my OBA do and fill up tires.

Using an impact is usually a luxury when working on a car. To tell you the truth, on the trail i have never used an impact to get my lugs off. It's usually a more of a pain in the ass of getting the hose out than turning the lug wrench!!!!

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Originally posted by Doug Krebs
an impact gun needs alot of pressure and volume to work well, can you put that amount through a regular regulator???

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Does the 100# spring mean the regulator puts down 100psi max? Doesn't say anything about the volume, though. I guess if you just needed to break really tight stuff free, a low volume of high pressure would work allright...you wouldn't be rattling your Ubolt nuts all the way off, though. AgDieseler, you wanna hook an impact up to your setup and let us know how it goes?

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Originally posted by Doug Krebs
Using an impact is usually a luxury when working on a car. To tell you the truth, on the trail i have never used an impact to get my lugs off. It's usually a more of a pain in the ass of getting the hose out than turning the lug wrench!!!!

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you're apparently not lazy enough. And who said anything about working on a CAR?

Cars need work too. There is not much on a truck that isn't on a car when your talking about impact guns. Unless your unbolting your cage or something.

easy tiger; I was just playin'

Okay, the impact was just for comparison sake. (though me and busa did use an impact to completly strip down and reassemble my front axle when we welded up the diff and installed the longfields). An air rachet would be a nice little tool to have though.

Out in the woods of Virginia, the prefered CO2 setup uses a "liberated" Coke CO2 bottle and regulator. Add an air chuck with hose and its off to the races.

-Mark

Doug, most impact guns are rated for about 90psi of pressure. The 100 lb spring means that 100 lb of pressure is available. The time is takes for a conventional 135psi compressor to inflate my tire versus my CO2 tank supposedly regulated at 100psi is about the same. Even though there are no gauges on my setup, I would say that it is putting out at or near the rated psi. I have no idea what the rated cfm is.

Keep in mind that I paid $30 for this regulator, and for the price, it's a damn good bang for the buck. The regulator alone from powertank cost $200.

Eric, come over somtime and bring a 1/2" impact and a 9" extension if you've got it, and we'll try her out.

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Originally posted by mark
Out in the woods of Virginia, the prefered CO2 setup uses a "liberated" Coke CO2 bottle and regulator. Add an air chuck with hose and its off to the races.

-Mark

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Yeah, it hurts to think about dumping $100+ on a tank when I got all these nice ones laying around at work :D I had actually thought about trying to get one of the vendors to hook me up with an old bottle for cheap, but I've heard alot of places won't fill those tanks because they think they're "liberated".

Can ya'll just not fit a york in the engine bay??? Or just don't want to mess with it at all. I don't understand why you wouldn't want one unless you couldn't fit it in there. Mine was pretty damn cheap to do.

York and AC hoses with the factory Volve mount: $30 junk yard

Manifold with pressure regulator: $2 compressor rebuild shop

Check and pressure relief valve: $15 compressor rebuild shop

Brake line from manifold to relief valve: $3 Ho' Reilly

Belt from Ho' Reilly: $8

Rubber hose to connect tanks and manifold: FREEBIE, found on a construction site cause it had a couple holes.

Assorted brass fittings, connectors, hose clamps, and hardware: ~$20

Steel for bracket: ??? Pretty damn cheap, left over from other projects

Time: weekend to make the bracket, wire a switch in the cab, and plumb the set up

Total cost: ~$79

Decent constant air supply: Priceless...

does anyone know if the york came with the single belt setup??

Mike the one i have in the garage right now has a single v-belt.

i meant i was looking for one with serpentine belt setup. my mustang motor runs that. it would be nice to take out the old compressor and put the york in place of that.