Airbrake

[Burritoboi5]

Hey all, despite not being done painting my cab, my bed needing to be sanded, and my flamethrower only partially hooked up, I have decided to put another project in the works. I probably won't get to fabbing anything until tomorrow night or sunday.

I'm adding an airbrake as my parking brake. Really no other reason then I think it would be cool to pull up to a fuel station and get that Psssssssss when I set the brake. I'm using a real deal can with all mechanical linkage that uses my highangle driveline brake to keep her from rolling. I just wanted to start this thread now and plan to update with pictures tomorrow or sunday.

Here's my brake.


-Kriv

[bmoeller]

I know a Case W26 wheel loader has an air brake on the driveline. Thought about adding one myself a time or 2. Would work great.

[PToombs]

All the larger W series loaders had them, from the W14 on up.

If you're only doing it for the cool factor, just hang it under there someplace, why go to all the work of hooking it up?

[bmoeller]

I'd want mine to work, though. Could have it rigged to actuate the stock cables though.

I'd use a different clevis though. I'd have one that is longer, to allow more adjustability. No real need for a clevis for an auto-slack either. What size brake chamber? Almost looks like a 30/30. Plenty of over kill.

[Burritoboi5]

Correct, I think it's a 30/30. In any case definitely is overkill and then some. I got it mounted tonight but no time to get pictures of it under the truck because I ran out of light. I made a crossmember that mounts behind my trans case and puts the airbrake on the inside driver side frame rail. It goes on with three half inch bolts. The geometry on my pivot arm took some prototyping in cardboard to get it all figured out. But tomorrow I hope to either mount my switch or atleast fab the last connection between my brake L arm and trans case brake.






Here's a video of me running it on shop air





Kriv

[bmoeller]

Looks pretty good.

[Burritoboi5]

Thanks, so far I'm happy with how things are coming along. Today I mounted my valve. So I'm just waiting now on my tank and fittings to hook everything up. I have a flashing warning light and a buzzer that will be my low air pressure alarm. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get my last piece of linkage fabbed up from the airbrake to the driveline brake.

I had to sacrifice an AC vent but I think it's cleaner than trying to cobble a mount together somewhere else.



Kriv

[PToombs]

Is that a spare glowplug for your Cummins?
Do you have a cargo light switch? You could put it there, or where that green switch is by the light switch. I put my fuel pressure gauge next to the light switch. Worked out good.

[Burritoboi5]

Haha that's an anti rattle device for my gauge pod. I do have a cargo light and my strobes take up the spot where my OD switch was before I swapped the nv4500. I'm pretty happy with where it is though.

[Burritoboi5]

Here's the setup all done! It sounds pretty good as long as the idiot taking the video doesn't keep his phone in the cab, my mistake.



I can get more pictures of the workings underneath if anyone is interested.

Also my buddy found a set of HIDs and the housings that fit my truck when he was cleaning up the shop today. Brand new, apparently someone backed out of the deal on them so I took em for a good price. I had to open up the back of the headlight buckets a bit, as well as drill out about 5 of the eight headlight retaining screws but they're in there. I'll see how much I like them tonight. They have halo/angel eyes but that doesn't suit me so I cut those wires off. I did however run the blue LED they come with into my clearance lights because my truck is named the Blue Mule after all.



I know one of my clearance lights is out, it's a bad ground I intend on fixing when I paint my cab.

-Kriv

[Gots_a_sol]

I wouldn't mind seeing some more pics of your setup.

[Tacoclaw]

True dat, I'm interested in seeing what sort of brake you've got this thing hooked up to. Any info on it? If my RC inherits my Dodge's parking brakes I'm gonna need to figure something else.

[Burritoboi5]

I'll try and get some more pictures today or tomorrow but I'm headed out now for the day.

Here's the brake I run.

http://www.highangledriveline.com/e_brake.html