Hello new shoes. Hello air

[X5SND]

Progress Update:

So as I previously posted, this new system is up and running....I still have a couple odds and ends to finish off (tidying up the air line runs, pick up my air dryer mount from the machine shop, grab some exhaust port silencers & give everything a thorough clean). I was also dealt a leaky PTC fitting....but all in all I should only be looking at a couple hours of work outstanding, max.

Following my previous post it was a matter of final assembly. So here goes:

Take a box, and put some fittings in:




Now put some more in... and while you're at it, throw in some pressure sensors and a pressure switch:



Add in some valves, hoses, & electrical bulkhead:



How bout some More hoses? Looks like we need a few more...:



MORE MORE MORE!:



Once you've had your fill of playing with with hoses, go find a mounting frame...like this:



Take your spare tire; chuck it out....fill void with twin 3 gallon air tanks mounted to frame 'found' previously. Like so:



From another angle:



Once thats good and secure....and perhaps after a couple cold ones lets have some fun with the 9 million wires that we need to hook up. Now I just want to point out, that I could have shaved about half a day from this nightmare-ish bit, had I not lost my road map (pin-out diagram) of my bulkhead connector.**Enter the "dog ate my homework excuse"** Long story short I had to do it the old fashioned way of testing each pin for continuity. This sucked:



Once that was sorted, we need make up the main tank feed lines & temporarily mount the air dryer. Also, can't forget to connect the main feed line in from the compressor....looks something like this afterwards:



I will point out that those yellow air lines are only temporary...I ran out of black line, so Had to use this stuff for the time being...they aren't staying long. (You should know me by now....Hell would freeze over before those yellow lines are ever considered "acceptable")

As I previously mentioned (I think?) with this setup now, not only do I see the live height values & tank pressure, but also see the pressure in each bag. Dakota Digital really incorporated some nice features into this system as you can set independent values for the minumum height error & time duration needed before the ecu will intervene to correct as well as change valve speeds to slow down the system (minimizing overshoot). Also, because I'm using "the full monty" system, I can specify the the maximum psi difference for bags on opposing sides....this prevents cross-loading & over-filling bags to unsafe levels on uneven ground.

This is what some of the above mentioned pages look like in my display:

Tank PSI readout:



Individual Corner height readout (Sitting bagged out):



Individual Pressure readout (They're all reading "00" as this was taken upon the initial start up; Compressor was still building up)



Speed settings; Adjusting Rear valve speed to slowest value:



Adjusting Maximum psi difference for Front bags:



All buttoned up:



I think I'm going to end up getting some thin gauge stainless shields bent to close in the sides of the tanks/box & finish everything off nicely.

That about does'r....aaaaand that concludes how I spent my weekend!

I'll No doubt have some more to add, but Im pressed for time at the moment so this will have to do!