my luck at the ircc show this past weekend

had fun at the event, placed 1st in my class, blah blah blah, we go to leave the show and i crack my first bottle, completely empty. good thing i just loaded up a new one before we left town, i crack the 2nd bottle and notice that my regulator t-handle wasnt showin threads (normally i dial in the bottles when i put em in the truck at the house, but i didnt this time). someone at the show, no idea who, but god i wanna beat the fuk outta em; took it upon themselves to adjust that regulator all the way in. so when i opened up the bottle, the needle pegged completely 180 so i basically had 800psi chillin in my system. so yea, long story short i managed to drop the pressure w/o killin my truck, but from what my buddy at praxair told me, that regulator is shot now, he thinks that the diaphragm inside it is fucked. im thinkin i might be able to just replace the gauge but either way, due to some idiot at the show fukin w/ something they shouldnt have, i get to buy new parts. and if i wasnt doublecheckin the system, id most likely be buyin new bags, and possibly more, and had the luxury to watch my truck clear the pavement at a very rapid speed. give ya an idea, i run the truck at 220psi (i just feather the valves when i drive it), at 200 itll clear all 4 wheels off the ground no problem. at 800 all i forsee is destruction. sorry had to vent, ive been goin to shows for quite a long time and ive never had my stuff messed w/.

Probably some crybaby that thought they should have won...and messed with your stuff...either way it's fucked up and I'd be pissed to!

wow that sux. i would catch a case over that shit

damn man that sucks. id be highly pissed off if that happened to me as well. i bet it was a helluva ride when you aired up tho and hopped your truck up....lol.

yeah that sucks, i had a regulater go bad in atlanta georgia once. dont know the amount of psi in my system but a few of the dot approved exploded like a road runner cartoon. i had to replace all my air lines due to streaching.

i dropped the pressure in the tank by holding my pancake switch open and hittin the rear switch up, to drain the system. and even at that it was still liftin the assend of the truck off ground, had to keep featherin it till we were good again.