[jarrodblake]

Originally Posted by daddyjeep

Those compressors can really generate some heat. I would keep an eye on how hot it gets in that sealed box.

I don't think they should get too hot between the three of them they make a little over 13 cfm and it's only a 12 gallon tank. So day to day they won't run long enough to get hot. The only time the should ever have to run very long is if I ever end up needing to use a air tool. But I will keep an eye on them.

Originally Posted by LT7A

Very interesting thread. You've done a lot of nice work on this rig and it's going to be very useful. I'm envious.

Thanks! I want it to be able to do a little bit of everything.

Well I started on the box I layed out everything I was planning on installing the box behind the cab on the driver side. So I drilled all my holes installed rive nuts and started mounting and wiring everything up. Then I thought I need to install the new gas tank as I need to put a hole in the back of the cab as I wand to use the stock fuel fill. I was planning on using the 40 gallon suburban tank and have it in the middle of the frame behind the cab but I wrote the measurements down wrong. the tank was to tall to fit where I was planning on putting it. And as big as my truck is I had nowhere else to put it as the only other place it would have fit was where I was putting the air tank. So I had to find a new fuel tank. I started looking at semi tanks I was hoping to find a 40-50 gallon tank. But all the 40 to 50 gallon tanks had a diameter of 25-26 inches but my bed from the out side of the frame to the outer edge of the bed was only 26 inches and from the underside of the bed to the bottom of the frame rail is only 21 inches so I had to settle on a smaller tank I ended up getting a really good deal on as 33 gallon tank with brackets its from a 2006 Nissan UD2000. its 16x40.

Now to the bad news I drilled 30 some holes in the box to mound the battery and compressors and everything else I needed for it but Now I need to mound the box on the passenger side and I needed to move the battery to the other side of the box as the battery cable would be to long but now I have to move everything to the other side of the box so I can still have space to store stuff in it.

Before

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After

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I also started on my switch panel

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I also redid the manual fuel shut off.

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I got more of the exhaust installed

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Since I was not installing the side box on the driver side anymore I installed a side ladder.

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The new tank!

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Making some brackets for the tank brackets

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I started making a flange for the fuel fill neck to pass through the cab to fill the tank.

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Here is another truck doing what I plan on doing.

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