I am looking to purchase a glad hand air line to inflate my tires as needed.
My concern is doing it safely. I have heard that tires can explode and kill or seriously injure you.
Is there a way to set up an air line where I can clip the connector to the valve and get air into the tire with a handle/trigger control? Something I could add to the end of the glad hand air line?
Glad Hand Tire Inflation Unit For The Truck?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by CV66GMG3, Jun 5, 2023.
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Just check it frequently. More things to worry about than a tire exploding from a glad hand inflation set up.
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Your truck air compressor will cut out long before you explode a tire, it's set for around 120 psi. When it makes that spit and puff of air, that's the compressor cutting off. But you will run out of patience waiting for an airline to reach a number near 100 psi, you wait and see what I mean!
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Technically it will reach the cut off psi. Practically it will take a long time. Even to 100lbs will be a fair while. You can't hurt anything at all, so start the engine, hook it up, and sit down with a book
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In my experience a gladhand-to-tire airhose is more trouble than it is worth. I had one in almost every OTR truck I ever drove. I only used it in very rare situations. Much better/faster to use the air hose at a truck stop, if you can find one that is not broken or being blocked while someone takes their 10 hour break at the fuel pump. If you pick up a trailer at a customer and the tire is flat, it's possible, it is flat due to a slow air leak It's much more likely that all you will do by hooking up your gladhand air hose is find out how long it takes for your truck's compressor to inflate an empty tire and see that the air leak that caused it to be flat is too big for you to keep inflated. I think in many cases I needed to drop my trailer and park closer to my trailer tandems to use it, especially now there are so many newbies that leave their trailer tandems illegally at the rear of the trailer out of laziness and "can't make me care."WallyWallyWorld Thanks this. -
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It’ll do it, but you’ll see, it’s a slow go.Phoenix Heavy Haul, tscottme and D.Tibbitt Thank this. -
I bought a glad hand, A good quality rubber air hose and a long air chuck that you don't have to hold onto when using it. Have quick connects on the chuck, glad hand and both ends of the hose. I rarely need it but when I do it sure is nice to have available. And I can air up a tire to 100 psi.
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