Tozalazz Portable Air Compressor
Driving off road can be a hard and bumpy ride. One way to ease that is to reduce the air pressure in your vehicle's tires. This also widens your tires footprint on the ground providing increased traction. So, a standard procedure for many off roading enthusiasts is to "air down" once they are on dirt before starting a trail, and to "air up" at the end of the trail before hitting pavement again.
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After researching portable air compressors online and watching Youtube videos, I found it difficult to decide on which one to buy. I choose the Tozalazz (don't ask me how to pronounce it). It is a Dual Cylinder 12v portable Air Compressor. It has good reviews on Youtube and is the compressor with the highest CFM (cubic feet per minute) rating at 11.65. I'm no expert, but I assume the larger volume of air a compressor can produce means faster air up times. And that means you can get off the trail and back on the road, and on you way home or to your next adventure.
Portable air compressors have what is called a duty cycle. The duty cycle of the Tozalazz is 15 minutes operating time, then 3 - 5-minute resting time.
This is enough time for me to air up my four 35x12.5 tires from 25psi to 55psi without the compressor shutting off to cool down.
One modification I needed to make (because my truck as a side post mattery) was to purchase a pair of Side Post Battery Terminal Extensions. These replace the standard side-post battery cable bolts with an additional length of bolt beyond the nut that tightens the cable to the battery. Other accessories can then be added using this bolt extension. This bolt extension also makes it much easier to attach the power cable's alligator clamps.
The Tozalazz has a working pressure of 150 psi. I don't know when I would ever want to fill something up with that much pressure, but you never know. The compressor may be used in the future for more than just airing up tires. Perhaps an air mattress, or float toys, or maybe a bicycle tire. I know some of them can need as much as 90 psi.
Anyway.
The compressor worked okay as it came, but there were some things I didn't like about it, so I set out to make a few changes. First, I didn't like the air chuck it came with. There are much easier to work with chucks available. The Tozalazz air hose fittings are different than the one 1/4-inch NPT commonly used here in the U.S. And the hose from the compressor has a non-NPT connector. Meaning I could not purchase a standard, air hose with a 1/4-inch connector to connect to it.
So, I cut the connector off the hose from the compressor and installed a barbed 1/4-inch NPT. So, I could now use any air hose or accessory that uses the common 1/4-inch connector.
Enjoy more comfortable off-road travel by purchasing a portable air compressor, then "air down" before going off road, and "air up" before hitting the pavement again.
Continue Reading
After researching portable air compressors online and watching Youtube videos, I found it difficult to decide on which one to buy. I choose the Tozalazz (don't ask me how to pronounce it). It is a Dual Cylinder 12v portable Air Compressor. It has good reviews on Youtube and is the compressor with the highest CFM (cubic feet per minute) rating at 11.65. I'm no expert, but I assume the larger volume of air a compressor can produce means faster air up times. And that means you can get off the trail and back on the road, and on you way home or to your next adventure.
Portable air compressors have what is called a duty cycle. The duty cycle of the Tozalazz is 15 minutes operating time, then 3 - 5-minute resting time.
This is enough time for me to air up my four 35x12.5 tires from 25psi to 55psi without the compressor shutting off to cool down.
One modification I needed to make (because my truck as a side post mattery) was to purchase a pair of Side Post Battery Terminal Extensions. These replace the standard side-post battery cable bolts with an additional length of bolt beyond the nut that tightens the cable to the battery. Other accessories can then be added using this bolt extension. This bolt extension also makes it much easier to attach the power cable's alligator clamps.
The Tozalazz has a working pressure of 150 psi. I don't know when I would ever want to fill something up with that much pressure, but you never know. The compressor may be used in the future for more than just airing up tires. Perhaps an air mattress, or float toys, or maybe a bicycle tire. I know some of them can need as much as 90 psi.
Anyway.
The compressor worked okay as it came, but there were some things I didn't like about it, so I set out to make a few changes. First, I didn't like the air chuck it came with. There are much easier to work with chucks available. The Tozalazz air hose fittings are different than the one 1/4-inch NPT commonly used here in the U.S. And the hose from the compressor has a non-NPT connector. Meaning I could not purchase a standard, air hose with a 1/4-inch connector to connect to it.
So, I cut the connector off the hose from the compressor and installed a barbed 1/4-inch NPT. So, I could now use any air hose or accessory that uses the common 1/4-inch connector.
Enjoy more comfortable off-road travel by purchasing a portable air compressor, then "air down" before going off road, and "air up" before hitting the pavement again.
