[smcurry83]

I'm interested to see what people have come up with for deflators. I've seen some dual, some quad and other misc stuff. I'm working on a dual deflator/inflator right now, so lets see what you guys are using.....

[Indy]

[kingvm]

I use the ones found all over ebay for <$10.

Could not figure out how how to buy parts to make some for less than that.

[mikemc411]

I keep two locking tire chucks in my console... clip them on and deflate two tires at a time... Go between the two tires monitoring air pressure,,, when they are good I go to the other two...

[flatlander757]

Look at aftermarket manual boost controllers for turbo vehicles, they work the same way and are quite reliable. I have one on my 90 turbo Sundance set to 15psi.

They're adjustable from about 6 to around 23 or so where more modifications have to be made.

Here's a link explaining them:

http://www.gusmahon.org/html/boostcontrol.htm

Intake manifold would be the tire valve stem and the wastegate can would be nothing, the atmosphere. and the 0.020" hole wouldn't be needed.

Now trying to make them for a reasonable cost, I think you're better off just buying some pre-made.

[smcurry83]

I'll have to get pics soon, but the one I made has two clamping ball chucks (one for each side) that are fed to a valve, gauge and coupler. So I can hook up both front or rear tires, and air down while I watch the gauge. Then when it's time to air up, I just plug the coupler into the coupler on my front/rear bumper. This makes it so both tires have the exact same pressure. Pretty convenient...

[fast64]

Gets the pressure down way faster than sitting there and holding the pin pushed down.

[Benny2Times]

Originally Posted by Indy

I laughed out loud

[Ruthless]

Originally Posted by fast64

Gets the pressure down way faster than sitting there and holding the pin pushed down.

2X.... removing the valve stem is probably the quickest way to air down short of sticking an icepick through your sidewalls. You just got to be careful and not let the valvestem shoot out of your fingers from the pressure, and bring spares.

[USMCredneck]

Originally Posted by Ruthless

2X.... removing the valve stem is probably the quickest way to air down short of sticking an icepick through your sidewalls. You just got to be careful and not let the valvestem shoot out of your fingers from the pressure, and bring spares.

x3. Most good tire repair kits have the stem tool ans a few spare stems as well.

[CNY]

Laugh all you want. About 75 cents for a set of four, and nothing is faster, except removing the valve stems.

[Jerry Bransford]

I used to use the below 4-hose "octopus I made for both deflating and refilling all four tires at once. I thought it was cool but it never seemed to get the tire tires filled or deflated evenly, even if I gave it a little extra time for the tires to equalize. Plus it was very slow to deflate or inflate the tires because the air valves in the tire stems stayed in place, it just pushed the little valve pins in to let air in or out.

Then I discovered Currie's tire deflator like is reviewed at http://www.rockcrawler.com/techreports/curriedeflator/currie2.htm
The Currie deflator is easier and MUCH FASTER to use because it has a nifty mechanism for removing the center tire valve so it dumps the air out in seconds, plus it keeps the valve inside the deflator so it's easy to reinstall it without ever even touching it. It now only takes seconds to deflate my tires, I'll never use my "octopus rig" again.

[sportcoupe]

Originally Posted by thedirt

Nice! I have to pick up one of those: http://www.currieenterprises.com/CESTORE/Product569.aspx?id=1236

Out of curiosity, does it damage the wheel stem or anything like that over time? Taking it in and out can't be good for it, no?

They say it lets the air out really fast. How fast are we talking? Like 35psi - 10psi in like.. 10 seconds or 60 seconds?

I'd say 10 seconds is a reasonable estimate for the Currie EZ tire deflater. Pulling the core is very fast at air removal.

[Jerry Bransford]

Originally Posted by thedirt

Out of curiosity, does it damage the wheel stem or anything like that over time? Taking it in and out can't be good for it, no?

They say it lets the air out really fast. How fast are we talking? Like 35psi - 10psi in like.. 10 seconds or 60 seconds?

So long as you're not a gorilla that can't screw something in without cross-threading it, it's not going to affect the life of anything on or in the tire stem in a meaningful way.

So far as time goes, I'd say it takes my 35" tires from 28 to 7-8 psi in maybe 10-15 seconds at the most but I never actually clocked it.

[TSEJEEPERS]

Have one of these on each valve stem. Way quicker to just take the valve core out. This way you always have the remover with you.

http://www.farmandfleet.com/catalog/image.aspx?i=023090