Place that customizes in pneumatics/air suspension?

[Cooked Rice]

The factory air ride in the rear on my T4R shit the bed, due to corroded height sensors($300+ a side). There are no aftermarket lift options available unless I fab up some spring seats and weld them in to convert to coils. Eventually that is what I'll do. But for now, I want to put shreder valves on the existing factory bags, so I can manually put air into them and get a lift that way. Need somewhere that can take a look at the existing lines and come up with a solution to get a couple valves on there.

[Alak]

Hmm somewhere that deals with air suspension daily. Maybe a heavy truck shop? 99.9% of big rigs are air ride. Fleet Brake might be a place to call. They do alot of fab for the company I work for. Im sure they can put together something.

[Alak]

I just had a thought, you could bypass the leveler valve. Like, you connect a line from left bag to right, then connect the airpump to that line, or a sub system that feeds into it.

Then when you flex, it will move the air back and forth between the bags (I suspect it already has a similar system) and you can put in a manual switch to use the air pump already on it.

[AndyL]

Got a few pics? Not overly familiar with the system, but i'll betcha it's a cheap easy fix...

[Cooked Rice]

http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/2003/4runner/215/ncf/suspension_rearair.pdf

That has info on the entire air system. CH66 and CH77 have some good diagrams of the routing. Just the pneumatic tubing is something i've never worked with before, it's a hard flexible plastic, never worked with that stuff before and unsure of how to put a shreder valve onto it, if i cut it.

[AndyL]

fuckit bring it by :) that stuffs easy to work with, depending on size I probably have some fittings around (use them on air operators in car washes). Wanna run two shraeders or T it into a single - then you're not worrying about unequal loading, and there's opportunity to cross feed and flex better...

[Cooked Rice]

That'd be great! When are you available?

I was looking at some fittings. Would something like this work?

http://www.airridefittings.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=106_90_103&products_id=625

along with

http://www.airridefittings.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=24

I'm unsure on the diameter of the factory lines, hopefully it's something common. I'll try to measure tomorrow.


... measured and it shows about 5mm in outer diameter 3/16ths would be the closest match