Thread: D3/RRS Air Compressor

Good point - had not thought of that.

All work has come to a halt - climbed under the car this morning and within 30 secs my world was spinning around in a major dizzy/vertigo attack so I have some sort of medical issue related to balance rather than low blood pressure as I get extremely nauseous as well. Seems to be mainly related to climbing under the car but I remain a little dizzy after the main attack for a couple of hours.

An extremely unpleasant experience. Off to the doctors as soon as they open on Tuesday (if I can get in - and the medical system wonders why people go to hospital emergency rather than their GPs).

I will get a friend to put the compressor back in and connect it all up and fix the compressor exhaust pipe later.

Thanks for all the good information.

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by garrycol

All work has come to a halt - climbed under the car this morning and within 30 secs my world was spinning around in a major dizzy/vertigo attack so I have some sort of medical issue related to balance rather than low blood pressure as I get extremely nauseous as well. Seems to be mainly related to climbing under the car but I remain a little dizzy after the main attack for a couple of hours.

An extremely unpleasant experience. Off to the doctors as soon as they open on Tuesday (if I can get in - and the medical system wonders why people go to hospital emergency rather than their GPs).

I will get a friend to put the compressor back in and connect it all up and fix the compressor exhaust pipe later.

Thanks for all the good information.

Cheers

Garry

Gary, that's no good at all.

Heres hoping that you find the issue soon, and work out a solution.

I hope all is well soon.

Brett....

Originally Posted by garrycol

within 30 secs my world was spinning around in a major dizzy/vertigo attack so I have some sort of medical issue related to balance rather than low blood pressure as I get extremely nauseous as well.

My experience has been that the nausea is a direct result of the dizzyness. Some 30 years ago I couldn't even stand-up which resulted in being carted off to hospital for a few days for all sorts of tests. They found nothing so assumed it was an infection on an auditory nerve and treated me for that. I hope your dizzyness passes quickly.

Originally Posted by Graeme

My experience has been that the nausea is a direct result of the dizzyness. Some 30 years ago I couldn't even stand-up which resulted in being carted off to hospital for a few days for all sorts of tests. They found nothing so assumed it was an infection on an auditory nerve and treated me for that. I hope your dizzyness passes quickly.

That is my guess as well - not low blood pressure. Seems to happen mainly when I am lying down under the RRS and I turn left.

Tomorrow I am going to turn the car around so when I lie down to work on it I turn right . The person I was going to get help from is not the greatest mechanic around - in fact has no idea - the air compressor bolt had him stumped even under my direct supervision and we managed to loose the end of the 10mm plastic hose ontop of the chassis so I think I will cut the hose in the spare wheel well and just run rubber hose with 10mm inside diameter from there to the compressor.

What should have been a 1 hour job has turned into an episode bigger than Ben Hur. The funny thing is that I have realised I did not even need to take out these pipes and could have done the job with them all in place.

Oh well - we live and learn. The upside the 101 is getting a bit more use than it normally gets.

Hi Garry, many years ago, I also suffered from dizzy spells, and nausea, when my head was quickly moved from the vertical, to horizontal, and vice versa.
Indeed, if I came up from under a car quickly, and stood up, I would just fall over, and no way of stopping that happening.
I was in the Royal Air Force at that time, and they 'Grounded' me. Lasted one month. Turned out that it was an 'Inner Ear' Virus infection, and therefore not treatable with medicines. Body had to fight it, hence the month to get over it.
Hope your ailment is no more complicated than that. Best of luck.
Don.

Still suffering but not as much as before - I noted that if I do not move my head I do not get dizzy so I had a lie down under the car with all tools and bits within hand reach and head in the right position .

I managed to get the air compressor back in - (that top bolt is now a breeze using a 1/2" drive, Uj and extension). The 8mm pipe (is the sucker) is in but I have not connected up the 10mm exhaust (confirmed by running the pump) so just dumps at the moment into the air compressor housing.

Runs all ok but when it dumps air it sounds like a bus dumping its air - the exhaust goes into a body cavity somewhere where it is muffled.

I understood that dealers sell the plastic pipe and joiners so I went to the local landrover dealer and got a blank look - response - oh we go down to Repco to buy it (hmm no you don't as the 10mm plastic is very thin wall and is unique). When pushed they then said they just replace the entire section - in reality they have no idea so I politely said thanks and left.

I will make up an end by drilling out some thick wall pipe so the brass fitting fits and then trim the external diameter back to 10mm (it expands when the brass fitting is inserted) and use it - just as well it is not high pressure.

This whole process has been extremely enlightening - great idea poorly executed - mounting system could be better, pump needs to a bit more robust (but I am surprised it lasts as long as it does), desiccant could be made from household grade and in a container that is changed with each service, the inlet and high pressure pipes are exceptionally small so I can see why the pump has to work so hard.

However with something like LLAMs fitted the pump actually needs to be used a lot less than standard as the suspension height is not continually being changed as speed goes up and down through 50kph.

Anyway - the workings of the air compressor is a little less mysterious now - thanks to everyone for your input.

Garry

Hey Garry,

Sounds like you may have Ménière's syndrome. My missus gets it from time to time. Her symptoms are same as yours. She uses a drug called Serc when she gets a giddy spell. Your doc should be able to diagnose

I bought a cheap two post hoist, to avoid grovelling on the floor.
Can sympathise with the compressor, mine failed but was covered with Allianz ext warranty, so didnt lift a spanner

Good luck with the dizzy spells