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Viair 450P air pump – heavy duty

I was looking for an air compressor to help me out on the trail since I need to air down the tires and once I get on the road, I would need to air up once again.   After looking through many company, there are quite a few choice from basic air compressor to high end system with a tank to support air locker system. Most people can do it with low price budget air compressor/battery start up system, but due to some emergency setup, a 100% duty cycle would be needed, so after checking with others, find this unit is working well from Viair.  This kit is more expensive then some of the others, but its well worth it due to portability, connector, size, power, and it does everything great. Here is the review and stuff.

Viair 450P

Basic specification from the Viair Website

• 12-Volt
• Permanent Magnetic Motor
• Duty Cycle: 100% @ 100 PSI
• Max. Working Pressure: 150 PSI
• Amp Draw: 19 Amps
• Min. Ambient Temp: -40 °F
• Max. Ambient Temp: 158 °F
• Dimensions: 12.50” L x 6.00” W x 7.25” H
• Net Weight: 12.73 lbs. 

450P-A Standard Features:

• Oil-less Design
• High Performance PTFE Piston Ring
• Stainless Steel Valves
• Moisture & Dust Resistant
• Gearless Direct Drive Motor
• Anodized Aluminum Alloy Cylinder
• Automatic Reset Thermal Overload Protector
• Dual-Stage Metal Air Filter
• Aluminum Sand Tray with Vibration Isolators
• Deluxe Dual Compartment Carry Bag
• 3-pc. Inflation Tips Kit
• 25 ft. Quick Connect Extension Hose with Heat Shield
• Gas Station-Style Tire Gun with 200 PSI Gauge
• Dual Battery Clamps with 40-amp Inline Fuse Holder
 

People who off-road usually need an air pump, and Viair 450P is perfect unit. Here is the specification from their website: Viair 450P.

Included Parts:
– Vibration-Resistant Diamond-Plate Sand Tray
– 35 ft. Quick Connect Extension Hose with Heat Shield
– Gas Station-Style Tire Gun with 200 PSI Gauge
– Deluxe Dual Compartment Carry Bag
– 40-amp Inline Fuse Holder
– Dual Battery Clamps
– 3 pc. Inflation Tips Kit
– Power Cord: 8 ft.
– Air Hose: 35 ft.

This is an heavy duty unit, works great.  I usually just get offered, pop the hood, connect the battery (use the power from car battery with included clamp), connect to tires, and usually will finish the fill of my truck tire from 10 PSI to 30 in 5-10 minutes.   Its great unit, come with carrying case, and easily install to work fast.

 

 

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Weather tech Floor mat

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Hellwig Anti-Sway Bar for 2005 Tundra Access Cab

The Toyota Tundra is great vehicle, but for regular street drive with off-road package contain too much swaying for regular road use, and when the trucks turn it’s swaying strongly.  After some research on Tundrasolutions website, which there are a lot of reader prefer Hellwig’s Rear Anti-Sway bar.  At time I purchase the unit, there is a group purchase, and I order one. there are several colors present, but I choose the red one, because rest of the truck is black, and when I go off-road I can see more clearly under carriage.

I installed the bar within 2 hours, which include 15 – 30  minutes of break time.  everything works great, come with one box, just bar and accessory, I installed fast and everything looks great after.  The system works great, flatten the ride a lot, doesn’t sway as much.  after 6 month, I retighten it and just left like that for next five years.  Everything works great and highly recommended.

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Toyota Hood Protector for 2005 Toyota Tundra Access cab Black.

There are just too many bugs flying around, so after driving in the road, kill hundreds of bugs with hood, and there are lots color on the hood.  A decision has been made, which is get the hood protector, so the hood won’t get scratch and kill bugs.

The Toyota Hood Protector made by Toyota guarantees the fit, and cost about $ 150 from dealers directly.  Which there are other manufacture like LUND offers form fit, and they are directly exactly fit the hood, but they requires drill to the hood, which most owners afraid of, and will have permanently damage on the hood.  The Toyota hood protector comes with giant boxes, and holds items pretty well, there are a manual, bags of parts,  hood protector covered by thin white foam, and a bag.   The manual explained the hood protector for Access cab is also use for Sequoia.  The entire procedure of installing the hood takes about ten to fifteen minutes.  There is a lot missing on the explaining which screw and parts is to what, but once actually started, everything went well.  The unit is very sturdy and won’t have any problem in 100 miles per hour speed, but do need to afraid on some automatic car wash place that will destroy the hood.

It pops out a little, and from the center of drivers window, there is only a little will be seen, and most will be under the hood.

This is the hood protector is formed like the shape of the hood, but Smokey plastic and strong.  There are 2 types of clips included; first type of clips, which clips near the center of the hood, the second type of clips, which clips near the end of hood. The center hood have two clips, which have a thick foam thing between clip and hood to protect hood, near the center is the two clips that snap to the Toyota grill and no drill is needed, right side of the u shape hook to hold shield on.  There is another one on the left side, they are all the way to the ends of the hood, holding by none drilling screws, and there is plastic sheet to protect the paint.

 

Excellent:

No drill

Direct fit

Protect hood

easy installation

strong enough in the high speed

good color for black truck

function as advertised

exact fit

 

Not so Excellent:

Expensive

seems weak

can break if hit large rock

need to retorque after few thousand mile

get dirty easy

could be more close to the hood

Links to other useful sites:

toyota

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Undercover Lid for 2005 Toyota Tundra Access Cab lids

I want something to cover my truck bed, lockable, so it can stores massive amount of stuff in the truck bed.  There are lots of options: hard, soft, roll, camper, fiberglass, and lots others.  I did decide to be hard cover, also in some kind of lid form due to following reasons: Campers are just way out of price range, also it’s too heavy to be everyday drive, and it will not handle too well under Off-Road condition.  The Soft top are just not so secure, and roll up takes too much space (hard roll version).  The lid kind basically are Snugtop, A.R.E, Gaylord, and some other smaller brand.  I choose Undercover simply because Bedliners Plus‘s owner Steve recommends that due to lower price than other full complete hard top because it’s not fiberglass like other company.  Also it is tailor fit to the vehicle.

 

Got this for my truck for keeping my truck bed clean and stuff safe, and I found the Undercover.

Here is some info:

The Feature :

Lightweight 58lb for full size trucks

Durability / Toughness and Impact Resistance

Standard No Drill Concealed clamp installation system

Easy On/Easy Off Designed for your truck

Garage Wall Storage system

Heavy Duty Steel Powder coated frame rails

Sleek contour custom fit for each truck

Hydraulically actuated struts for ease of opening and closing

Dual lock point wrap-over tailgate locking design

Paint able

Weather-tite

 

The Lid is not really paintable as much, but it’s solid unit, works great.  I would keep it if I wasn’t needing some more space.