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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on 2018 Ford F-350 Super Duty, we're gonna be showing you how to install the Viair Onboard Air Compressor System. Before we get into that though, why don't we just take a minute, check this system out and make sure it's gonna work for you. Having an onboard air compressor system on your truck is definitely a cool feature to have. You know, essentially, it's gonna be like having a compressor you would, more or less, at your house and your garage, that stays with your truck all the time. You can fire it up and do a lot of different things with it, especially one of this caliber.

You know, this makes a lot of pressure. It can move a lot of volume and can actually do a few different things with it. So, in our case, our customer here today has airbags, air springs, for the rear axle. He can inflate those with the compressor kit. You can air up tires, you can, you know, blow your bed out of your truck, you know, blow out the dirt and everything.

So, really, you know, it opens up your opportunities and how you're gonna be able to use your truck as another tool. This kit's also gonna allow you to use air horns or train horns as some people call them. It seems to be pretty popular. And here in a minute, we'll kinda put everything through its paces and see how it works. Maybe air up a tire, air up our bags and figure a couple of things out there, but I wanted to show you what's kinda going on.

So, I'm not gonna lie, the kit is pretty stout. 2 1/2-gallon tank and the setup has a 200 psi maximum working air pressure, which is really good. The compressor's no joke. This thing will move quite a bit of air. I believe it's 1.86 CFM, but more importantly, it has 100% duty cycle at 100 psi.

So, more or less, what that means, at 100 psi, this thing will run for an hour straight before it needs to cool off. So, you know, that gives you a lot of run time on this thing at a pretty high pressure to be able to do what you're trying to do with it, you know, whatever the case may be. So, pretty cool to see there. Tank seems like it's well-made. A bunch of different prongs located on it so you can put all your different types of fittings and whatnot there. And they give you a hose and actually, a pretty nice gauge too, to inflate your tires or inflate you know, whatever it is you're trying to do. So, with that said, why don't we go ahead and check it out and kinda put the system to the test. So, here's a good situation that never seems to fail. You get a flat tire, you get the spare down, just to realize that the spare is flat too. So, I'm gonna hook up our gauge to it here. (air hissing) Lock that down on there. And it looks like you only got about 20 psi in the tires. A spare on this truck supposed to be 80. I got our compressor tank filled all the way to 200 psi so we'll see how long this takes to pump this up here and if the compressor, there it goes, the compressor kicks on. (compressor running) So, I'm assuming it'll take a little bit. I mean, that's a lot of pressure that this tire's gonna take. It seems to be doing okay. You know, so, this is a good example of how it can get you out of a pinch if something like this were to happen to you. So, there we are, we're able to get it to 80 psi. I'm not gonna lie, from that, I'd say, about 20 to 50 psi, it did that on the first swing. You know, it ripped through that like it wasn't nothing really. From there, you know, about after that 50 psi mark, at least in our tire, you'd get five, seven psi out of it. You know, you'd have to wait a minute for the compressor to get another five pounds of air, wait a few minutes. So, it really started to slow down at the higher range, which is expected. I mean, 80 psi and a tire this large, this one is a 275/70/18. Don't know what that comes out to, but a big truck tire and we we're able to get it, you know, get 80 pounds air in a thing and it would go more too if we wanted, I'm sure. But pretty impressive for a little onboard air compressor kit. Underneath the truck, this is what your kit is go to look like if you install it like we did ours. This is possible to actually get everything underneath here and still get your spare tire back up. It does fit back up, obviously, we left it outta the way so we can see everything and so that's really nice. You're not