etrailer | How to Set Up Your Firestone Air Command Heavy Duty Air Compressor on a 2018 Ram 2500

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Rob: Rob here at etrailer.com, and today you're going to be taking a look at the Firestone Air Command I Heavy-Duty Air Compressor for Air Bags on our 2018 Ram 2500.Now, having an air compressor for your air bags is going to be a really nice thing because let's face it, whenever we're towing a heavy load, those air bags definitely come in handy, helps support our load, keep our truck nice and level and reduce the amount of wear and tear that we put on it from towing those heavy loads. Every time we load up or we change loads, we're going to have to adjust our air bags, which means we're either going to have to get an air truck out, fill them up, an air gauge, lower them down, and have somebody checking the pressure. I don't know about you but I would much rather do it from the comfort of the inside of my truck with a switch rather than having to pull that air hose every time.Our compressor is going to be a kit. It's going to come with the compressor itself we see here along with a gauge and a switch, so we can monitor the pressure as well as adjust it. The compressor itself is going to be a heavy-duty compressor. It's going to work all the way up to 150 psi.

If you have some of those really heavy-duty air bags that go up that high, this is definitely going to be the compressor you want to get because most of them are really only going to go up to about 100 psi, so we're not going to be able to use the full capacity of our air bags.Although our compressor is made by Firestone, it will work with all air bags. You just want to double check the pressure on your air bags because, again, our compressor here does go higher than a lot of the other ones on the market. Our compressor is designed as a single path, which means it's going to allow us to simultaneously fill both bags or decrease the pressure in both bags, so we can get the front and back level.Now, here's the gauge and switch that comes with our compressor. It's analog gauge with a white face, so it's really easy to read, and the adjustments are going to be even easier. If we need to raise the pressure, we just push up.

We can see the needle moving and hear the compressor kicking on, but if we need to deflate the air bags or let air out, we can simply push down. You can hear the air escaping and the needle moving down, very easy, very convenient. Another nice thing about our gauge is that it does have a backlight to it. So if turn on my headlights, the gauge is going to light up, so we can see it even at night.As far as the installation goes, is going to be really straightforward. It's definitely something you can do in your garage.

No special tools are really needed, but there are a few things that you might want to pick up to make your installation a little bit easier. First thing would be obviously the air bags. Those are going to be sold separately. If you already have them on your truck, perfectly fine. May want to pick up a few extra feet of wire, about 10 feet or so, just to make some electrical connections, a fuse tap kit so we can turn on the light on the gauge, some zip ties, some ring terminals.

And if you're doing your air bags at the same time, you'll get air line from the compressor as well as the bags, but if you're adding a compressor to an existing system, you may want to pick up some extra air line just because of how long our truck is. But now that we've seen what it looks like and gone over some of the features, let's get it installed together.To begin your installation, you'll want to find a spot to mount your compressor. Now, we wanted to mount ours on the driver side frame rail, and right behind the rear door, we're going to have this little pocket right here right against the frame rail right by your emergency brake be a nice spot because we can see frame is actually pretty clean because this is actually going to block quite a bit of spray and any kind of debris that's going to be there.We can take our compressor. I'm just going to loosely hold it up there to make sure it's not going to interfere with our emergency brake cable and that we can get the four mounting holes onto a solid piece of metal and it's not going to hit these holes. We can see that it does fit, and in your kit, they're going to provide you with some machine screws and some nuts, but since the frame is so thick, it's going to be really