If you're looking to add a bunch of functionality to your '97 and
newer F-150, then you might want to consider adding an onboard air system
like the Viair heavy duty option that we have here. Now, with onboard air,
prospective buyers can power things like air horns, supply load leveling air
suspension kits, or an air locker or power air tools, and maybe most importantly,
air up tires after doing some off-roading. Now, price point for the all-inclusive
system here will be just south of 400 bucks, and the install will get a soft
three out of three wrenches on the difficulty meter from me as there is some
advanced mechanical expertise needed here. But we will give you a more thorough
walk-through later in the video. So if you're watching this video then,
chances are you guys already know the value or benefit of running an onboard air
system like this and its infinite number of uses. Now, this particular option that
we're talking about here today happens to be Viair's heavy duty onboard air system,
which will be a few steps above their entry level system and is good enough
to air up to a set of 35-inch tires, according to the company.
Now, you guys have to keep in mind that Viair has a number of different options
on the site here which should appeal to a wide spectrum of truck owners out there,
including the constant duty kit, which might be a step or two above this
option and will air up to tires 37 inches or larger. Now, in addition to that,
that kit will be a little bit more capable overall and handle just about any task.
Now, the biggest difference you will find between each of these Viair kits typically
boils down to the compressor in addition to some small other little bits as well.
Now, for this kit, you're going to be receiving Viair's 400 C compressor,
which will draw 26 amps and put out 1.1 CFM at 90 psi and can be used for 20
minutes straight before needing to be rested for at least 30 minutes. So again,
you can use this thing for just about any duty, including airing up those 35s
like we already talked about. But, if you had a bigger set of tires or needed
to use the compressor for prolonged periods of time, you might want to look
into a different kit like the extreme duty or even the constant duty kit we already
talked about. But let's jump back to the heavy-duty kit we have here and talk a
little bit more about what this thing will deliver. And you're going to be looking
at a max of 150 psi and a max duty cycle of 33% at 100 psi.
Now, for reference sake, the compressor will fill the included
2-and-a-half-gallon tank here in about two-and-a-half minutes,
and will fill a 35-inch tire from 0 to 30 psi in roughly five minutes per tire.
Now, besides the compressor and the tank we've already talked about here,
this kit will also include roughly 35 feet of this coiled air line, as you can see,
and with the clip-on tire chuck. But, by the way, guys, you can easily swap that
guy out for a standard quarter-inch coupler or whatever you had in mind if you
wanted to. Now, this kit will also feature this included dash-mounted gauge panel and
switch here, which will basically turn your compressor on and off and tell you
how much air or psi you are currently working with. Now, Viair also includes a
pressure switch relay right here to automatically kick the compressor
on at 110 psi and shut it off automatically at 150 psi.
Now, in the rare event that the relay should fail, Viair also includes a 175 psi
safety relief valve. Finally, they're going to kick in all
of the hardware, the wiring and miscellaneous bits needed to get this
system up and running for the first time. Speaking of getting up and running,
you're going to encounter a few different options when mounting this system
to your F-150. Now, me, personally, I see a majority of guys going
underneath the truck, to the frame rail or maybe somewhere
underneath the bed. But I have also seen some guys throw it under the hood,
if you can find the real estate, of course, or even in some rare cases
throwing everything inside the cab. Which, I don't know I would totally recommend
because the compressor can get a little warm if it's really being worked.
And for the owners who might be a little apprehensive about mounting this thing
underneath the truck and maybe getting it a little bit wet, you shouldn't be,
because I've got a few buddies who actually have a very similar kit,
including the Viair stuff here, that has been fully submerged and keeps
on ticking. Now, granted, you don't want to do that when the
compressor is running, but it shouldn't be an issue
for you whatsoever.
All right, the first thing we're going to do is start to plumb up our
air tank. And we're going to take two three-eighths compression fittings and put
them in each hole here on the tank. Now, these do come with thread sealant on them,
but I'm going to apply some teflon tape as well because I don't want any leaks and I
do not want to trace any leaks. So, better safe than sorry.
Now we can move to the bottom of the tank and we can install our drain,
better well-known as the drain cock.
Next, moving to the top of the tank, we will install the safety relief valve.
So, included in the pack is a three-eighths to quarter-inch reducer that
we need to use for the pressure switch. So we are going to install the reducer
into the side of the tank first.
And then we can install the pressure switch into our reducer.
And the last port that we have open in our tank is for the lead line
off the compressor. We're not going to install this just yet,
we're going to wait until we have our tank mounted up on our truck and then we can
install our compressor line.
So we removed our spare tire and we're going to relocate it
to the bed of the truck. That's going to give us a ton
of room to mount our air compressor and our tank right where the spare tire used
to be, with the least amount of holes in the bed as possible.
All right. So, what we're doing here is marking up the air tank and marking our
holes to where we're going to mount this thing.
I'm going to drill four quarter-inch holes up here
so we can get our air tank mounted up into place.
With the air tank up in place, I'm going to try and do this one-handed.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.
All right. So now we're going to mount our compressor.
We're kind of limited on places to mount this.
There's a hundred different places you can actually put this thing.
To not make it super permanent, we're going to use a hose clamp for now,
to get this strapped up to the frame, and we're going to see how well
this works.
Now, the first connection we can make is the compressor to air tank,
now that we got both of these things mounted up.
All right. So we're going to start making some electrical connections.
We're going to start off by taking the ground off the compressor,
and the ground off of the pressure switch. And I'm going to ground them right to the
chassis of the truck. And if it's a painted surface,
make sure you grind it down a little bit so it's bare metal so you get a
good ground. I'm going to put both of these wires under the same grounding stud.
Clean them up a little bit. Zip tie them and we'll get them mounted
right to the frame.
All right. Like I said before, we ground down a
little spot on the frame so we get a good ground. And we're going to put both the
compressor and the pressure switch ground wires under the same lug.
And I'm going to ground it up. Next thing we're going to do is mount our
switch and our pressure gauge. I'm going to choose to mount this right
here on our trailer hitch. For one thing, it's going to keep everything in the back
of the truck. I'm also going to have the air chuck come out of our spare tire hole.
Since we don't have the spare tire under the truck anymore, everything will be
at the back of the truck. Come back, turn your switch on,
watch your pressure gauge, watch the tank fill and everything will be
right here. You can also mount this in the cab of your truck if you'd like,
but we're going to choose to mount it back here.
All right. So this wire here is going to connect our pressure sensor to our switch
on the gauge. I'm extending the wire a little bit longer just to get it to where
we need to go.
We can connect this wire to the bottom terminal on our switch and
we're going to just use some zip-ties and clean this up a little bit,
and we'll move on to our next wire.
All right. So this is our power wire.
It's going to go from the battery all the way to the back of the truck.
There's a thousand different ways you can route it. I'm going to go along the driver
side frame rail next to the brake lines, and that's going to get us
where we need to be.
And we're making our connection here from the wire that's going to come
from our battery. This is a fused power wire and it's going to give our
system power.
All right. Now, we can start plumbing up our air system. We have two outlets on our
tank right here. One is going to go to our gauge and the other is going to go to the
yellow coiled-up hose that's going to give us our air supply. So I'm going to start
with the gauge first. We can take off our compression fitting.
We're going to slide this end onto the hose and then this end onto the gauge.
You really got to push hard on these guys to get it over the barb.
You want to keep pressure on it while you're tightening this guy up.
All right. Now, we want to go up to the air tank.
I'm going to measure out some line here.
All right. Now, we got our last line here. We're going to make the last connection
and this is going to be the feed to our yellow hose that's going to come
out of our bumper.
All right. We're going to make our last connection here. Lift a little slack so we
can pull this in and out when we're ready to use it.
And any time we need air, we can come back to our truck,
pull our line out.
Now, I'm going to get this boy up to the battery.
All right. We just need to make our way over to the battery with that guy.
This is our fused positive cable.
This runs all the way back to the air compressor.
All right, guys, that wraps up our install for our onboard air system.
Be sure to check out more at americantrucks.com.
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