Does anybody use a portable tire inflator?

That reminds me, I have to make a trip out to rural king here soon for some stuff before winter.
Thanks for reminding me by mentioning them.

 

I bought mine from Amazon for $8 I believe. And added fittings. Quick disconnects. So I can fill up an air tank if need be. For those times when the tire is off the rim.

Watch for the gauge to level off.

The gauge stays maxed. I also kick up the idle. Have to listen for the air movement to the tire.

Superwides. The hardest tires to fill up.

 

One thing that everybody has to keep in mind is that having the ability to fill your tire with air shouldn't change the fact that if you need to add air to your tire there is something wrong. If it doesn't get up to max pressure it's not necessarily the end of the world because you should probably be headed to the tire shop anyway.

 

Good point.

 

Any body ever experienced the pleasure of dismounting and trying to repair a truck tire that has had the inner liner soaked in the oily crud from an onboard engine compressor? The smell of the air coming out of the stem when the core is removed and the loft of air across the nose when that first bead has been broke loose. Ahh memories.

 

Sounds like there might have been other problems. Other serious problems.

 

This is what I got a while back ago. Works pretty good but need to have the large batteries to make sure to have enough power.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Q4ZDCKB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Air wipers had that smell too, and the oily gunk under the dash. As mentioned, with tubeless, unless you run over something, you really shouldn't have to air up the tires, and the glad hand/hose, or Aro coupler on the air tank, was only for emergencies. I hauled rail cans for several years, the #1 complaint, was the tube tires were always low. At 2am on Chicagos lower east side, good luck.The glad hand hose got them to at least 75 or 80, good enough for bias ply, and saved me many times. I even got an "attaboy" from the boss who said I had the least tire problems. A portable 12v job could never do that, at least the ones I've had.

 

Depends on how often you have to add air. I don't go to the shop just because a tire is low. Unless I'm adding on a daily basis.

Every 2 months.

Tires lose air. Not uncommon to have to top them off. Specially as the weather gets colder.

 

Higher altitudes too will cause pressure loss. Someone told me, at 10,000 feet, a tire can lose as much as 6 pounds.