Airline recommendation for airing tires, hooks to glad hands.

Get yourself a gladhand kit
https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Powe...hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583657835593245&psc=1

 

I always just bought whatever the truckstop had. Like everything in trucking, some drivers will claim if you don't buy the one made by ABC or made of one particular material you might as well not even have the thing.

It is ALWAYS faster & .ore convenient to use an air compressor installed at a truck stop or shop than squat down beside that ow tire for 20 minutes waiting for your air compressor to boost tire pressure 25 psi. Some have a Chuck on the hose that doesn't require you to press it on the tire valve by hand. Shops use those air chucks.

 

Truckstops have them.

I put one of them tire chucks on. So I don't have to be kneeled down.

The current truck says 130 on the gauges. But your lucky if you can get past 105 on the tires. So I just let er rip.

 

https://www.northerntool.com/produc..._Re8dY5-zRPRgc9VnRBoCnJ0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Had this one for about 3 years before it failed. Ended up doing exactly what @kemosabi49 recomended though.

 

I made my own, purchased 50’ of rubber hose, glad hand, “Long air chuck” and quick disconnects. Had it over 40 years. AND, purchased a high quality air chuck gauge recently.

 

You are smoking the "Thinking man's" cigarettes. Make up your own, better quality, reach where you want to go, and the quick disconnect in a tank is quick to connect.

 

I bought one from a TA about ten years ago for like $60. I probably overpaid for it, but it still works fine.

 

Cut a small x in a tennis ball to put over the fitting on your airtank. To keep it clean from most road grit.