I never made one of these threads, and I figure now is a great time to do so with the addition of my ARB air locker installation finished. Here are some new pictures of my 2002 Xterra.


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Very nice!

Dude!!!... are those revo's in the back? It's like a double-hinge shackle with a revolver or something. I haven't seen that design before. What kind of droop do you get with that?

hey drake go to 4x4parts.com and look at there revolver shackles... here is a link to some youtube vids of a guy from TNO


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wRs9gF5lAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFO3ZcgPec

what you think of that flex.. LOL

yes drake, they are revolver shackles. I get amazing droop. I will have to find somewhere to get it to full droop, take a picture and then post it up.

i bet its hard to find a place HUH??? LOL

definitally...there is a lot of droop to be dropped. My rear shocks have 12" of travel, and thats a lot of shock to drop out. I would say the revolvers are worth every penny, cause theree is a lot more suspension droop to keep tires on the ground longer.

how about a mod list :)

Here ya go: http://www.clubxterra.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3508

Dude, your X is freakin killer, I love it.

It reminds me of my wheelin days, lol, I had a 83 yota with 9" of lift and 36's, I miss that thing, lol.

Where did you mount your OBA for the locker? Did you go with the min-compressor from ARB or did you add a larger tank?

The locker mod is a couple years down the road for me (unless I win the lottery.. lol) but when I do it, I'd like to put a full OBA system in the spare tire area so I can run pneumatic tools and tire fills from it as well.

I went with the compact locker compressor. And I do plan on installing OBA as well. I have a theory though...multi-tools are good, but not as good as a single tool for a single purpose. So I took that and put it towards my X. If I went with a combined system, and it craps out, then I don't have a locker or air to fill back up at the end of the day. I figure, keep each system dedicated to its own purpose and there is less chance of breakdown.

I will get a pic or 2 of where I mounted the compressor.

sounds good punk... very good idea

Excellent idea to have a back-up/secondary unit. I've got a dream to hopefully have an "xterra trailer" by year's end. If I get it, then I won't have to worry about OBA so much.

I'm looking for enclosed cargo hauler trailers so I can carry my M/T's and put them on when I get to a park. Plus keep trail spares, tools and hopefully even a small welding unit in it.

DAMN COOL Kyle! Drake what do you think about his pics for our project? I see one that might juz work! but needz an outback backdrop behind it!

If you go to his photobucket page, he has a shite load of pics to choose from. Check out his pics in the nomination thread for the March XOTM. The link is in that thread somewhere.

Axion...here ya go: http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o271/punkrockdrummerx there are a ton of albums on the left side of the page.

Gotcha... will T.A.L. and get back...

The ARB compressor is not a backup/secondary unit. They will be 2 complete seperate units. If the OBA fails, then I don't have OBA. If the Locker compressor fails, then I have no more locker. The compressor itself is too small to run constantly and dosen't put out enough air to fill a tire. I think it would probally take 1 hour to fill each tire if I even wanted to try that.

Drake, here are some pics of the compressor mount. Notice my on-board battery charger in the background of the 3rd pic.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o271/punkrockdrummerx/DSC06568.jpg
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here's some pics of tjtj's revolver shackles

http://www.clubxterra.org/forums/showthread.php?t=740&highlight=revolver+shackles

That's a sweet setup!

The few air-lockers that I've seen were mounted in the rear framerail. Exposed to everything. I saw one where a dude installed it right next to his sub in the rear cargo area. Then wanted to complain about oil stains. hahaha

Do you get a lot of oil seep/spray from the compressor?

I have only had it fully installed for 3 days so I don't know yet. I don't see why there would be oil coming out of it since its a sealed unit.

It's a problem they've probably fixed by now but early last year I was reading about them and they got rave reviews but the one common knock against them was that they seemed to spray minute amounts of oil around the hose fitting. Probably just a design flaw like the 1st gen rear swaybar. lol I think it must have been updated because it looks like the housing on yours is much more well design than the old cylinder style it used to have.

ARB makes a few different compressors. I got the compact air locker activation one. Maybe they were having problems with one of the others.

Probably so. I mean your compressor looks nothing like the ones I saw. It looks much better.

And I'm diggin' that batt. charger man! That's a sweet idea.

yeah...since my X dosen't get driven all that much and just sits in my yard, I was having problems with batteries going dead. So I just invested $400 in 2 new batteries and 2 onboard battery chargers for them. This way, it keeps the battery full and all I have to do is plug them in and let it go. The CTEC charger I got is much like a battery tender except better and cheaper. Now when I say $400, that is $400 at my employee price where I work. The 2 batteries and chargers would normalls cost $670. So this way I don't have to worry about it anymore. And the batteries have a 3 year free replacement warranty.

i like the compressor install you got a how-to??? LOL you know we love how-to's.. LOL

Kyle,

The next time you do the wild thing take some angle shots of the rig sitting still with some good backdrops for me. Get some good tight picturez.....
Wilderness, no people, good lighting!!! a must and at least 8megapixals....
with no D.O.F. in them....

I GOTZ SUM PLANZ Fo-em....

Here ya go: http://www.clubxterra.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3508

I wish my mod list was that long!!! :usuck:

:aufkopfhauen-big:

chris, thats ok...I still forgot some things. haha

Axion...my camera is only 5megapixels

Jason, sorry no how too. I am usually way to dirty to even get near my camera when working on my xterra.

Kyle, I have one that's 8 megapixels. We can take some shots a rausch and I'll email you them or we could just go take them somewhere you pick. let me know. Which batteries did you get?

Exide Orbital Batteries. ORB75DT84 is the part number of the batteries I got.

punk do u work for csk lol

pics are not working!

yeah I moved them in my photobucket and lost all the links

dude that truck is wicked.