Okay, so I was doing a little thinking… For those who want to have a manual valve in their truck, but do NOT want to run extra airline, drill holes in the floor, etc. I came up with this idea.
What about the possibility of attaching the manual Graham White to your setup, but being able to use it remotely?
I was thinking of two different ideas…
My first idea is the least complicated. It would involve attaching a wire/cable to the lever and running it to your cab. You could keep the wire “taught” by occasionally having it go over some kind of small pulley wheel (I mean really small, since the wire won’t be too thick). In theory you could run the wire all the way into the cab and pull on it whenever you liked.
2nd Idea…
How about the use of electronics? You could go out and get a servo and a control arm… (one that is powerful enough to pull the Graham White lever). Hook up some basic electronics and run the power wire to your cab… So, every time you press the button, the servo with control arm would pull on the lever slowly… It’ll give you that throttling honk that you were looking for.
I know these are basic ideas, but I thought with the right ingenuity , it could be accomplished
The valves we commonly use are on or off. There are expensive gear valves u could use. Biggest voltage servo is 7.2 volts. Step the voltage down figure out how to control. The inside spring would need to removed. Even a seiko servo would struggle. Then there is linkage. That idea is a hassle. The easiest is a chain which is easy or use use 2 electric valves with one having a flow control on it.
It’s more painful to drill in the bed for me than under the cab. I had big plastic drain caps under my cab so didn’t drill on anything I couldn’t cover up. But you can bring yourself to do it if I did…I take better care of my truck than I do my gf!
Use a power door lock solenoid. Then run a thins cable like the kind used for hanging largere pictures. Then you could use an aux out put from your alarms remote. It will actuate when voltage is applied and pull pack if enough tension is on it. Or use a small linear actuator.
