Woodward Designs 1988 S-10 Longbed Project

[projecthoarder]

Loving the whole thing, it all flows together well.

[silverstonepgt]

Well, my brother just picked up a clean b6 A4 Avant to play with, so I am going to do what I always wanted: manual air management for the truck.

Plans are to use my current valves in the Audi, relocate my tank and compressor into the bed under the tonneau cover along with the battery, and then remove the current wiring to run 3/8" line to Little Larry's Fourplay valve block:



Older MIC style 1/8" or 1/4" valves are slow as hell on S10s since the rear of the truck weighs nothing, but these 3/8" line and equivalent flow close to 1/2" ports should be exactly the speed I want. They include an exhaust port that will be dumped outside the cab.

I've gotta take measurements to see where I can mount it, but it looks like I may just be able to replace the current air ride and headlight panel with this setup, and drill a hole in the blank end of the Fourplay face to place my own headlight switch and compressor shut off.

[hinrichs]

Ive been waiting to see someone use that valve block, I was going to with my c1500 but ended up doing the normal vu4 manifold but that just seemed so much easier and the speed definitely wasn't bad from videos I saw on it.

[CBURKE]

Nice man!!!

[MercTastic]

Looking forward to the plans on this. With the bench seat and the manual ride control, I'm in.

[Robitussin]

Loving this! Longbed looks amazing laying on the ground!

[silverstonepgt]

Woodward Designs 1988 S-10 Longbed Project

Loving this! Longbed looks amazing laying on the ground!

Thanks!

I'm going to try and update this a little bit more often as I work on this thing, especially running this manual valve block. I think a lot of people avoid it and just stick with electric since it's priced similar, but if the install goes easily I'd argue that the simplicity is worth the cost if these things hold up over time.

For me a big motivation is that I will drive this thing in the winter and I've had this current set up so long I'm sick of having to warm the valves up by hand if they ever stick.