Your dad's shed is such a typical Australian garage. Bessa brick walls. Peanut butter jars with nails in them. Corn tins with bits of plumbing kit. Peg board with tools hanging up.
I bought the single for the same reason. Many people miss the whole less is more thing and want the latest and greatest. I’ve always admired your common sense.
I ended up putting my compressor under the rear seat, which was inspired by your rear seat removal video. I took out that awful lock box thing and it opened up so much space under those seats. Thanks for the idea!
I installed my ARB compressor in a similar place on my JK and found that the thermal cut-out would sometimes kick in while airing up my tyres, especially after a long day of slow low range driving. To help with this, I made up a simple heat shield with some aluminium tread plate, which should help shield it from the worst water and mud too.
Good job man cannot wait to see this build come together I’m super excited to see you get on the road and show parts of Australia I will likely never get to see. Keep up the great job man.
Osram has a portable kompressor with gauge and adjustable airpressure up to 120 psi. Weight 1,4 pound. hight 6,7, width 2,7 inch and cost 70 usd. Saving weight, a lot of money and no struggle with a 18 feet long air hose. Infact the hole unit has smaller footprint than the air hose to the ARB, and it is also a powerbank and has a ight.
Nice job. I installed my complressor under the front passenger seat. It's cool, clean under there and I can leave the hose attached too. I connected to the Aux buttons it was so easy to run the cable under the plastic trim.
Awesome timing, I just ordered that compressor to mount in my LJ engine compartment. I've used a Smittybilt portable for several years between my 4x4s (works great), but wanted to free up space in the jeep and have a dedicated compressor.
Nice video. One note: for critical systems (the air compressor is not) it is better to do crimp connections rather than solder for things that are in a vibrating environment. Solder makes the wire brittle and it may eventually fail. High quality crimps with good shrink wrap around is recommended.
Love this, I just recently bought myself the ARB Compressor and love the size, and the way you can move that parts of the compressor around to suit your fitting space - keep up the vids dan
Nice, I’ve had the single in my JKUR for 3 years and love it. I ran an air line and mounted a chuck on the bumper with a dust cover. Then put the switch inside so I don’t need to pop the hood. That’s worked well for me.
It's good to think things through. I am enjoying watching the new adventure truck being put together. Thank you Dan for sharing the upgrades step by step.
Great vid. I Had my single in similar position in the JL, Worked well but it does get very hot as the 3.6 is known for, the pump failed after about a year, so I swapped to the twin under the seat using a purpose made bracket from ARB. Something to look for…Steve 🇦🇺
Then you most definitely should not work on any of the hybrid or plug-in-electric vehicles... They have voltages in certain areas that will definitely "knock your dick in the dirt"... Sure, it's the "amperage" that kills you, but without the voltage to overcome the resistance of your body, it doesn't matter how much amperage you might have... A few hundred amps of potential at 12V and you won't even feel it... Change that to a 400+V battery pack and you will most definitely feel it (and there is a very good chance that it will kill you also)...
They most definitely HAVE jammed something into every possible cranny and often it is a bunch of useless shit. For example, the 2nd battery that they needed for the auto-stop-start system (which was only needed in order to game the CAFE testing system so that they could claim better gas mileage than it really gets in real world driving. I have a hydraulic winch that is from one of my previous Jeeps that I would like to put on my JL, but it needs to run off the power steering pump. Since the JL's power steering pump is electric, that is not likely an option. The advantage of a hydraulic winch is that it does not have a duty cycle and you can use it all day long and not have to worry about it overheating. With an electric power steering pump, you now have to worry about it overheating, just like you do with an electric winch.
nothing wrong with this install. But I thought those Jeep’s have dash aux switches with connections in engine bay ready for accessories like this. Could be wrong. Either way. Nice install and I like the thinking around the single vs twin compressor. 👍
Hi! Awesome video as always!!! And I wanted to ask you if you personally do or recommend washing the engine bay (bonnet) of your vehicles with a pressure washer?, do you use degreaser?, how often do you usually do it?, and if you apply anything on it (like wd40) to keep it looking nice and in good condition?
Hahahaha. You engineers. I'll bet you could've drawn a nice wiring diagram. I have the same compressor, but as a builder it went pretty quickly. (Just kidding ya. You know us builders have to rib you engineers.)
@@TheRoadChoseMe thank you for your opinion, it's nice to hear from you as you definitely have a lot more experience than, if his licence plate is correct, a 1998 baby...lol!
No, I'll just open the hood and connect straight to the compressor. Gives me a chance to have a good look around under the hood, make sure everything is sane!
I figured if I'm already right there plugging in the air hose, I'm happy to use the switch that is right there. The Aux switches are spoken for with other things coming soon!
That would use up cargo volume, and every time I want to use it I have to get it out, plug it in, etc. etc. Much better to have items like Compressors mounted out of they way and ready to go with minimal effort.
@@alexlawmaster And you can have a more powerful (faster) pump going directly to the battery. My compressor is a portable one but has no 12V socket plug, you must connect it to the battery and have the engine running, serves me well as we do road trips but only for a moth or so at a time so space isn't quite the issue Dan will have.
Could we get a close up of the wires that are stripped and not stripped. What goes to the on off switch. What’s the point of this video. Other than you are lost too
I actually just did this again. You need the two big wires going into and out of the relay. Then there are two smaller ones. One is the ground, one is the +12v signal. Make one be interrupted by the pressure switch, and the other interrupted by the physical switch, and you'll have it working perfectly. Now I've done it three times I got it quickly.
