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Offline mbmarkyb

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #15 on: March 09, 2005, 10:10:03 PM »
i run a truck air compressor witha  2L tank....

I have an MP3 player.. soon to add some speaker and a AMP , basically the CD player i had broke and i thought I may else well bin it as im bound to sink it .

Red switches do the compressor, one in the middle does the winch and yeah the front spots when they were attached.
going to change that soon once it warms up
Markyb (UK)
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Offline Bobzooki

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2005, 12:18:11 AM »
I should do the in-dash winch switch!  I used a stock Sidekick 4-door rear-window defroster switch to power my rock lights.  The connector for it is in the dash harness, so it's a "plug and go" deal - works great!

I also have a pressure gauge for my air tank (I put a 2.5 gallon Sun tank between the frame rails under where the back seat is) - it's in the hole where the cigarette lighter was.
Bob

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Offline mbmarkyb

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2005, 01:32:05 AM »
I like your switch position Bob,  Mine is in the middle to give the co driver something to do .

I will have to ordr me a ARB compressor switch to match the other one, maybe later in teh year i will replace my locrite with a rear ARB
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Offline Bobzooki

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2005, 01:51:33 AM »
Oh, I see you've got the Black Button!  I have one of those on my 4-door.

The rumor has it, that if you're in heavy traffic, and you press the black button, the vehicle in front of you will be instantaneously transported back to where they started their trip.  Use it carefully!

Bob

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Offline mbmarkyb

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2005, 02:11:57 AM »
it that not AC climate control bob, or make the outside go cold the inside warm :-)
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Offline Bobzooki

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2005, 02:16:36 AM »
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it that not AC climate control bob, or make the outside go cold the inside warm :-)



No, I'm talking about that black button, where your A/C switch is, if you HAVE A/C!  My 4-door doesn't have A/C, so I have that stupid little black "hole filler" button, too!
Bob

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Offline ed oorklep

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2005, 03:10:39 AM »
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Oh, I see you've got the Black Button!  I have one of those on my 4-door.

The rumor has it, that if you're in heavy traffic, and you press the black button, the vehicle in front of you will be instantaneously transported back to where they started their trip.  Use it carefully!



I have it too in mine and it works great!!!  ;D especially in traffic jams  ;D
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Offline hcgalvin

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Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #22 on: March 10, 2005, 04:32:39 AM »
It's not the turbo boost button like one would have in Knight Rider?

(You can't leap frog over traffic?)
Heather Galvin
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mudfkr

Re: ARB woes....Update, now fitted.
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2005, 06:41:44 AM »
Well after a few more problems (which I won't bother going into ::)) I finally got my front ARB installed with the 5.83's.  ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'm wrapped with the new gears and combined with the front ARB it's hard to even explain how much of a difference it's made so I'll just wait and post some pics later instead  ;D

« Last Edit: March 24, 2005, 06:42:11 AM by mudfkr »

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mudfkr

Re: ARB woes....
« Reply #24 on: March 25, 2005, 09:20:03 PM »
Well looks like I have more ARB woes  :o.

The R/H stub axle has started to move out, Now I have to explain the rest of the story first. In brief it goes like this.

The locker that was coming from the out back was fitted and found to be faulty. Very hard to turn the axles and very lumpy so back we go to see the local agent. He say's "yep this is not right" and contacts ARB Aussie immediately who say they will run one with the next batch in about a month or so.

Local agent argues on my behalf that this is BS and not good enough, so ARB say they will get one out in a week. So I'm happy enough with that and wait patiently. Well then the frickin carrier  loses it and it never arrives.

So the NZ agent then gets involved and replaces my RD 88 (26 spline Vitara front) that I ordered with an RD72 (Sammy 26 spline rear) and says it will be fine, OK then we fit it and it's not 100% smooth to turn but better than the last one and they (ARB Aussie) assure me that  it's only the thrust washers with a bit of machining burrs on them and they will wear in quickly so with that I'm to keep an eye on it - like real frickin close eye too ( hint of sarcasm here, that I'm not overly happy with there explanation of why it's lumpy and tight ;)) . Then Today I drain the oil to check for any crap and rotate axles to see if it's improved with a few hours wheeling and I notice the R/H stub axle has moved away from the housing by about 3/8" WTF  ???  ???

Hmmm......... so I've been thinking that seems it's a rear locker theres no  recess for the front axle clips to seat in and thats why it's moved out. Any other ideas ??

Pic from test run yesterday.....