GTGallop
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- First Name
- Greg
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- Anthem, AZ
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- 2019 Ranger XLT 4X4 SOLD - Now 2023 TRD Offroad
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- Program Manager
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So my truck parks on the side of our house. Right next to my neighbors bedroom window. I needed to get up and go at 5:00 this morning and he's retired - can sleep as long as he wants so I try to stay quiet. This morning my tires were between 24 and 26 PSI all the way around. Likely the cooler nights setting in.
I didn't want to fire up an air compressor at 4:30 next to his bedroom so I broke out the bicycle pump. It took NO TIME to air up the tires to 30. I was expecting to be running late. Now the pump in question is a high capacity 630 ccm/pump model but still - truck tires are BIG and they take a lot of air. This was faster than waiting an hour to reinflate / air up my tires on the side of a trail using a 12 air compressor and letting it cool between tires.
Now obviously going from 26 to 30 is going to be exponentially faster than 18 or 20 to 30. I think next time I'm off road, I'll do a shoot out comparison. Left side aired up with a compressor and right side with a high capacity hand pump. If the hand pump comes even close to the time the air compressor does, I'll look for a larger hand pump and keep it in the truck instead of the crappy hot 12v air compressor.
I didn't want to fire up an air compressor at 4:30 next to his bedroom so I broke out the bicycle pump. It took NO TIME to air up the tires to 30. I was expecting to be running late. Now the pump in question is a high capacity 630 ccm/pump model but still - truck tires are BIG and they take a lot of air. This was faster than waiting an hour to reinflate / air up my tires on the side of a trail using a 12 air compressor and letting it cool between tires.
Now obviously going from 26 to 30 is going to be exponentially faster than 18 or 20 to 30. I think next time I'm off road, I'll do a shoot out comparison. Left side aired up with a compressor and right side with a high capacity hand pump. If the hand pump comes even close to the time the air compressor does, I'll look for a larger hand pump and keep it in the truck instead of the crappy hot 12v air compressor.
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