Thread: CTI tyre inflation systems

Sounds like a good idea but those air lines look rather vulnerable.

Originally Posted by Xtreme

Sounds like a good idea but those air lines look rather vulnerable.

Yeah those lines would get torn off within 10 mins on the scratchy tracks to the beach over here.

Besides if you don't have to air down and back up when done how are you supposed to get the beers from the fridge out the back. Lol

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Originally Posted by Xtreme

Sounds like a good idea but those air lines look rather vulnerable.

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Originally Posted by Josh_WA

Yeah those lines would get torn off within 10 mins on the scratchy tracks to the beach over here.

Besides if you don't have to air down and back up when done how are you supposed to get the beers from the fridge out the back. Lol

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I talked to the guys who build these in Moe Vic. They sell these all over the world mostly to military then bush fire fighting brigades etc. They have ripped them off a few times during thousands of ks of testing but they plug back in somtimes need a new bayonet fitting. I first saw this on the trucks that used to run into Nifty mine site back when it was a 600 k dirt road. Of course they were not on the steering wheels of the road trains. Its a great idea just wish they could run on the inside somehow. Wont be long before someone comes up with it. I was surprised to find out there are 3 distributers here in WA so there must be a lot more out there than I thought. Mike

Originally Posted by Defender Mike

... Its a great idea just wish they could run on the inside somehow. ...

First you need a 4x4 with reasonably sized axle shafts so they can be gun drilled. e.g. unimog. LR matchsticks are too small.

I would have ripped those things off hundreds of times. Mine roads are wide and free of trees/scrub.

Log trucks have them, he had cti on his own p38 rangie

Originally Posted by isuzurover

First you need a 4x4 with reasonably sized axle shafts so they can be gun drilled. e.g. unimog. LR matchsticks are too small.

I would have ripped those things off hundreds of times. Mine roads are wide and free of trees/scrub.

I would have ripped all 4 lines off within 5 minutes on a deeply rutted track I drove on the weekend .
I'd imagine it was intended for Jeep axles, but I read in an American 4x4 magazine years ago that Timken made special hub bearings with a slot in the cone races that allowed for a small airline tube to pass through from a hole in the stub axle flange out to an ARB airlocker style rotary air connection at the inside of the axle drive flange.This saves gun drilling the halfshafts.Apparently there are a couple of states in the USA where internal central tyre inflation conversions are quite common enough for Timken to cater for their needs.Perhaps a search on Pirate might be worth doing.
Bill.

I can understand not getting out of a vehicle in war situation and in some work enviroments.....but for most of us, just something else to go wrong and lead to other failures and strandard.......waste of time IMO