Posts Tagged ‘automotive tool’

For Immediate Release: ARB Air Locker Test Gauge

Seattle, October 20/ ARB 4×4 Accessories – The Air Locker Test Gauge has been designed as an easy and effective way to determine the supply pressure and/or detect a loss of pressure in the air system of the ARB Air Locker or the ARB Air Compressor. It simply connects between the existing airline, and a “shop air” constant supply of up to 150 PSI.

Note: The Air Locker Test Gauge was previously offered as ARB part number ‘ALT01′ and is being re-released as a part of ARB’s new Air Locker Tools range of differential service/installation equipment.

Features:

• Works with any model of ARB Air Locker
• Is quick and easy to use
• Requires no special tooling
• Push in fitting is removable for use with other 1/8″ BSP fittings to suit a range of tube
  sizes (5mm supplied)
• Comes with an accurate European made pressure gauge

Specifications:

• Weight: 8.3oz (235g)
• Maximum input air pressure 150 PSI

About ARB
ARB Corporation Limited is Australia’s largest and industry leading manufacturer and distributor of quality, 4WD vehicle accessories, with distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide.

The company manufactures and stocks the worlds most respected and sought after brands including ARB Air Locker locking differentials and bumpers; Old Man Emu (OME) customized suspension systems, IPF high performance lighting, and Safari snorkel systems. ARB’s Seattle office is the North, South & Central American headquarters and importer of ARB 4×4 Accessories.

To view the full line of ARB product, please visit the official ARB website at www.arbusa.com

Media Inquiries
For more information about ARB or to obtain production quality images please contact: Steven Bisig, Marketing Assistant, ARB 4×4 Accessories 720 SW 34th Street, Renton, WA 98057 Tel: (425) 264-1391 | Fax: (425) 264-1392

For Immediate Release: ARB Air Locker Adjuster Nut Pliers

Seattle, October 20/ ARB 4×4 Accessories/ ARB’s new Air Locker Adjuster Nut Pliers are a professional tool that no differential installer should be without. Correct pre-loading of an adjuster nut type differential is an important yet often mishandled part of the installation and service of the differential. Incorrect carrier bearing pre-load can result in premature bearing failure, ring and pinion failure, and possible oil/air leakage issues in an Air Locker differential.

Attempting to pre-load an adjuster nut type differential has proven to be a common cause of incorrectly pre-loaded assemblies and/or damage to the adjuster nut or bearing journal surface. Unfortunately however, most commonly available adjuster nut tools have been designed to suit only a select size or make of adjuster nuts, and many will interfere with the overhang shape of the bearing cap, and so alternative methods such as the ‘hammer and chisel’ technique are sometimes used.

As a part of ARB’s new Air Locker Tools range of differential service/installation equipment, these pliers have been specially designed by ARB to easily and safety accommodate not only the full ARB Air Locker range of adjuster nuts, but also most OE adjuster nuts also, regardless of size, shape and bearing cap type.

Features:

• The one-size-fits-all design quickly and easily adapts to all ARB and most OE adjuster
  nuts.
• Allows the axle to be pre-loaded without the same level of risk of adjuster nut and
  bearing journal damage associated with most other methods of tightening.
• Provides exceptional ‘feel’ to the pre-loading process so that correct pre-load amounts
  can be achieved.
• Rubber molded handle is easy and comfortable to grip.
• Spring energized return-to-closed action allows one handed operation.
• Comes with chromoly tool steel jaws and Grade 8 fasteners

About ARB
ARB Corporation Limited is Australia’s largest and industry leading manufacturer and distributor of quality, 4WD vehicle accessories, with distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide.

The company manufactures and stocks the worlds most respected and sought after brands including ARB Air Locker locking differentials and bumpers; Old Man Emu (OME) customized suspension systems, IPF high performance lighting, and Safari snorkel systems. ARB’s Seattle office is the North, South & Central American headquarters and importer of ARB 4×4 Accessories.

To view the full line of ARB product, please visit the official ARB website at www.arbusa.com

Media Inquiries
For more information about ARB or to obtain production quality images please contact:
Steven Bisig, Marketing Assistant, ARB 4×4 Accessories 720 SW 34th Street, Renton, WA 98057
Tel: (425) 264-1391 | Fax: (425) 264-1392

For Immediate Release: ARB Air Locker Shim Driver Set

Seattle, October 21/ ARB 4×4 Accessories – ARB’s new Air Locker Shim Driver is a professional automotive differential service tool for installing/servicing common shim pre-loaded differentials. Insufficient carrier bearing pre-load can result in premature bearing failure and ring and pinion failure in all differentials, and possible oil/air leakage issues in an Air Locker differential. Most common Salisburry style axle assemblies (e.g., Dana Spicer model 44) require the pre-load shims to be tapped into place in order to achieve the required pre-load during set-up. Tapping shims into a tight space from a single point on the outside edge of the shim can cause damage to the shim and render it useless, resulting in extra cost and labor to the installation.

As part of ARB’s new Air Locker Tools range of differential service/installation equipment, ARB’s Air Locker Shim Driver is comprised of 6 different sized steel profiles designed to evenly distribute the installation force (from tapping) around the outside edge of a differential shim as it is tapped into place in the assembly. This allows thinner shims to be inserted into tighter places than would be possible without the Shim Driver.

Features:

• Reduces the risk of damaging carrier bearing shims as they are installed
• Comes with a size range to suit most common carrier bearing shim diameters
• The set of drivers are joined together as a set for convenience
• Zinc plated finish

About ARB

ARB Corporation Limited is Australia’s largest and industry leading manufacturer and distributor of quality, 4WD vehicle accessories, with distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide.

The company manufactures and stocks the worlds most respected and sought after brands including ARB Air Locker locking differentials and bumpers; Old Man Emu (OME) customized suspension systems, IPF high performance lighting, and Safari snorkel systems. ARB’s Seattle office is the North, South & Central American headquarters and importer of ARB 4×4 Accessories.

To view the full line of ARB product, please visit the official ARB website at www.arbusa.com

Media Inquiries
For more information about ARB or to obtain production quality images please contact:
Steven Bisig, Marketing Assistant, ARB 4×4 Accessories 720 SW 34th Street, Renton, WA 98057
Tel: (425) 264-1391 | Fax: (425) 264-1392

For Immediate Release: ARB Air Locker Differential Spreader

Seattle, October 21/ ARB 4×4 Accessories – ARB’s Air Locker Differential Spreader is a professional automotive tool that no differential installer should be without. Most common Salisbury style axle assemblies (e.g., Dana Spicer model 44) require the use of a differential spreader in order to achieve the required carrier bearing pre-load during set-up. Stretching the housing casting (or ‘pumpkin’) open by sufficient enough force as to allow extra shim to be added to create the pre-load is the method that the OEM manufacture’s endorse, and most manufacture’s have included special “spreader sockets” in the housing for exactly this purpose.

Insufficient pre-load can result in bearing failure, or ring and pinion failure on any differential, and possible oil/air leakage issues in an Air Locker Differential. As a part of ARB’s Air Locker Tools range of differential service/installation equipment, this specialty tool offers an easy, quick and highly effective way of pre-loading these axles.

Features:

• Designed by ARB to quickly and easily install onto most shim adjusted automotive
  differentials.
• Allows the housing to be stretched in a safe and controllable way which reduces the
  risk of causing permanent damage to the housing (i.e., from overspreading the
  housing)
• Pre-drilled with a hole pattern that suits most of the commonly available axle types.
• Also suited to pre-loading shim adjusted Banjo style axle assemblies (e.g., Isuzu 26
  spline).
• Comes in a durable carry case with a dedicated powder coated parts tray for
  storage and transport
• Economically priced at roughly the labor & materials cost of having to re-preload one
  axle (i.e., a differential that was set-up without a spreader that is now showing easy
  symptoms of under pre-loading)

Specifications:
Weight 30.6lb (13.9kg)

About ARB
ARB Corporation Limited is Australia’s largest and industry leading manufacturer and distributor of quality, 4WD vehicle accessories, with distribution in more than 100 countries worldwide.

The company manufactures and stocks the worlds most respected and sought after brands including ARB Air Locker locking differentials and bumpers; Old Man Emu (OME) customized suspension systems, IPF high performance lighting, and Safari snorkel systems. ARB’s Seattle office is the North, South & Central American headquarters and importer of ARB 4×4 Accessories.

To view the full line of ARB product, please visit the official ARB website at www.arbusa.com

Media Inquiries
For more information about ARB or to obtain production quality images please contact:
Steven Bisig, Marketing Assistant, ARB 4×4 Accessories 720 SW 34th Street, Renton, WA 98057
Tel: (425) 264-1391 | Fax: (425) 264-1392