| Re: [GMCnet] Overloading Tires [message #326143 is a reply to message #326142] |
Sat, 18 November 2017 10:04   |
James Hupy
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I also have bent a very substantial piece of bar stock with the bogies. I
don't use them any more since I installed my wireless air system. Those air
bags will put an incredible amount of force on anything you put in their
way, especially with the lever action of the bogies.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 GMC ROYALE 403
On Nov 18, 2017 7:58 AM, "Billy Massey" wrote:
> Single sided spacer block? Do you mean a block that only works on one side
> at a time?
> I've got a block from Tom and use it to lift both bogies simultaneously.
> It's a piece of Aluminum barstock 3/4 x 6 x ~2.5".
> What's the problem with this? (if it's what you're referring to)
>
> bdub
>
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Ken Henderson
> wrote:
>
>> Those are undoubtedly Warner blocks -- bad juju.
>>
>> Leigh Harrison supplied a manifold for each side with a ball valve for it
>> and another for each bag, plus a gauge and a Schrader valve. Most
> mounted
>> that in the wheel well. I moved mine to the Generator and "Propane"
>> compartments so I can reach them when the bags are down.
>>
>> Ken H.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Rob Mueller
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Ken,
>>>
>>> I did find two aluminum blocks in Double Trouble when I got it. They
> were
>>> "witness marks" on both of them where something had "dug" into them
>> pretty
>>> well!
>>>
>>> Now I have "manifolds" on both air bags from Dave Lenzi:
>>>
>>> http://www.bdub.net/lenzi/index.html#AirManifold
>>>
>>> As you can see they have shutoff valves, tire valve stems, and gages. I
>>> can shutoff the air supply and bleed the pressure out of the bags
> easily
>>> when I have a flat tire.
>>
>>
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