Airbags installation
More Turbo
Joined: Nov 2016
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From: Durango, CO
I installed the same exact system but mounted it just behind the fuel tank on the the fifth wheel backing plate. It works great. The ride is not harsh at all without a load when you take the bags down to 5 psi
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Post Fiend
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From: North of Salt Lake City
It was fun to finally use the upfitter switch and wiring. It is soooo easy. The wires are plenty long enough to use and their position in the engine compartment is a lot easier to get to rather than tucked up under the driver side dash like on the previous generation.
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From: Weatherford Texas.
It was fun to finally use the upfitter switch and wiring. It is soooo easy. The wires are plenty long enough to use and their position in the engine compartment is a lot easier to get to rather than tucked up under the driver side dash like on the previous generation.
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Post Fiend
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From: North of Salt Lake City
I haven't done that yet but am planning to. I want to use #5 as an always-on for the dash cam and #6 for backup/camp setup lights.
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From: Weatherford Texas.
You will have to pull the plastic cover under the A/C unit, even then it was very difficult holding the wires and getting a stripper crimper in there to do anything, I didn't cut the protective cover off, I was able to slice it and peel it off to try and keep what little length there is. It would probably be easier to just run your own wire through a grommet on the drivers side.
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From: Western MA
My pass through wires were plenty long on the engine side. (They are taped in half so if you aren't pulling them out of the tape, you're only getting half the length.) Much better than on my 2012. On the inside under the dash is where mine were WAY too short. I used three of them for my radar, dash cam, and sub amp. What a pain in the ****...
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From: Weatherford Texas.
those are the upfitter wires not the pass through, the pass thru wires are on the passenger side blunt cut on both ends, one end just below the computer, the other end up high behind the A/C unit.
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From: Western MA
Yes, I'm aware of the difference but I was indeed referring to the blunt cut pass through wires. I had to use three of the 4 pass through wires to feed the devices I mentioned in my previous post. Both the uptfitters and the pass through wires on my truck were plenty long on the engine side once you unfolded them where they were taped in half.
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From: Weatherford Texas.
Yes, I'm aware of the difference but I was indeed referring to the blunt cut pass through wires. I had to use three of the 4 pass through wires to feed the devices I mentioned in my previous post. Both the uptfitters and the pass through wires on my truck were plenty long on the engine side once you unfolded them where they were taped in half.
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From: Weatherford Texas.
I was so tempted to remove the pax seat to lay down and reach the wires, would have been easier maybe. Instead of kneeling and twisting under the dash. Thats what I usually did to work under instrument panels in aircraft.
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For the short pass through wires, it took me less than a minute for each one to strip and splice.
https://www.amazon.com/Capri-Tools-20011-Automatic-Stripper/dp/B01018CX46
https://www.posi-products.com/posilock.html
https://www.amazon.com/Capri-Tools-20011-Automatic-Stripper/dp/B01018CX46
https://www.posi-products.com/posilock.html
Post Fiend
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From: Greenwood, SC
Re: air tank. I don't have a 2017 truck but I want to help....if it's similar.
On my 2015 I installed the 2.5 gallon air tank directly behind the carrier bearing and above the drive shaft. I used a 12" x 18" sheet of sheet metal, mounted the tank and wiring and two 100% duty cycle compressors (viair #10009) to the sheet metal and then mounted the whole thing to the cross supports under the bed. It stays pretty clean and dry up there. Hope this gives you an option.
On my 2015 I installed the 2.5 gallon air tank directly behind the carrier bearing and above the drive shaft. I used a 12" x 18" sheet of sheet metal, mounted the tank and wiring and two 100% duty cycle compressors (viair #10009) to the sheet metal and then mounted the whole thing to the cross supports under the bed. It stays pretty clean and dry up there. Hope this gives you an option.