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Originally Posted by Devbot
Good to know you were able to wiggle it in there, that cubby can barely fit my jumper cables so I wasn't holding my breath over it holding a compressor, at least not without some modification. Did you use a bracket of sorts or did you just mount it directly to that black plastic piece? I was thinking of doing that latter for the time being just for the sake of saving time but I've never actually held one of these compressors in my hands to know how big they are, but I've heard they're pretty damn small
The left side was ironically my second choice if the cubby didn't work out; having the cabin vent there would give really good air flow. Really the only reason I wanna go with the other side is cause the door already exists and I don't have to fab anything, but if push comes to shove then I'm not opposed to it either
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I did mount it directly to the plastic 'inner pocket' on the storage cubby, but like I said above, I did reinforce that. Would it have held without the reinforcements? Maybe, but I didn't think so. It's been in there for a long while now, I think it would have fallen off by now if it was going to (I just jinxed myself, lol).
I just sort of quickly slapped it in there when I installed it, no external plumbing/tanks/fittings, it's just there to air up again when rejoining pavement in the boonies. So I jsut drilled some holes in the door for ventilation and a bigger hole for the fitting, and the air hose quick disconnect just fits onto it through the door in normal use.
NOTE: I originally had my orange coiled poly long hose hooked directly to the compressor fitting, but that gets HOT when you're airing all 4 tires back up from 12 to 40 psi, and I had it blow out the first time I used it. So I got a short section of tougher hose that can handle the heat and that buffers the more delicate poly hose from the compressor fitting's heat.
At some point it would be nice to install an air tank somewhere and plumb this to an outside fitting, but so far, this works great. I'd be fetching the hose from the inside anyhow, this way I just leave it attached, lower the rear window, and it stretches around to all 4 corners.