check valve question....

ok i have seen people talkin bout putting check valves on their cylinders to make the rear hold up when pulling dogleg my question is where have yall been mounting them? on the cylinder?on top of the valve?where

i don't understand how this would work... but ok most people i know of run air into the bottom port on the cylinder and then when you dogleg it dump the air out of the top and run it in the bottom SLOWLY and it will suck right up

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this is what i meant, a guy sells check valves on ebay and wrote this(the paragraph didnt show above)......screw one of the check valves on the dump end of your rear valve assembly, so when you lay the ass out, just pick up one of the corners, and the other rear corner should stay sucked up in the wheel well without dropping down due to the tires weight. And then drop the opposite front corner while the other front corner is locked up.

Edited: 8/22/2005 2:13:56 PM by Duckn

i don't know who's reading this wrong but it may be me.... this is what i get out of it...

i have check valves on my set up. the check valves help in the sense that when i would hit a bump my front end would go down because the air would push backwords through my vlaves and leak back into the tank. i placed 1 check valve on each corner (so 4 total) just before the fill valves, between the fill valves and the tank. this also helped hold the front up a little better when i doglegged because before the car wouldn't hold the weight up in the front when i tried to drop just one corner.... i dunno if that makes sense or not

yea it does make sense but i was wondering if the same principle would work for the rear. i.e. i want to try and use one to keep the rear aired up while dogleggin cause the weight of the car is pullin it down so i thought maybe i would be able to use one so the air wouldnt leak back out of the cylinder causing the car to drop some in the rear... ive got some ideas im gonna try and see what works

ok let me see if i understand... say you have the passenger side rear in the air doglegging. you're saying the driver side rear starts to drop causing the passenger side to fall with it? if that's what you're saying then first make sure you don't have any leaks because there's barely any weight in the back so it shouldn't be dropping like that, but ifyou have no leaks then a check valve before the fill valve should work i believe

well i have a lil added weight back there lol speakers,extra battery,air tanks,valves....etc. and in the bottom of the trunk is a 1/4 inch sheet metal bottom lol