PTO driven air compressor - would it work ?

**VladTepes** · 16th May 2005, 09:14 PM

Just for the sake of discussion.

What would be involved in using the PTO to drive an air compressor and could it be done at a reasonable price ?

I stress I am not contemplating actually doing it (my max air does me just fine)

Unless......

:wink:

**camel_landy** · 17th May 2005, 04:27 AM

It probably could be done....

Mind you, if you're not running aircon on a 200/300TDi then you could always use the Aircon compressor mounting (with Aircon compressor if you wanted...).

Mark.

**VladTepes** · 17th May 2005, 03:53 PM

But I AM runing aircon.

It's not England here you know :roll:

It's sunny for a start [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

(and yes I am reading paul's thread on the air con compressor thingy)

**DEFENDERZOOK** · 19th May 2005, 12:49 AM

thats an idea ive been thinking about but havent looked into it yet.

i want to run a york compressor off the PTO cos it wont fit under the bonnet....

HSVRangie · 19th May 2005, 09:03 AM

Do it

Michael.

nutgrass · 19th May 2005, 11:05 AM

http://www.4wdworld.com.au/products/maxidrive/

Not sure how up to date this is, but looks like MaxiDrive can gear up there PTO drives to suit.

**Hymie** · 2nd December 2011, 07:59 PM

Driving the Lawnmower at work today I had the same idea and as soon as I got home searched the forum to see if anybody else had the same idea.
Has anybody actually done it yet?

**uninformed** · 2nd December 2011, 08:06 PM

LR did this back in the 50s,60s,70s, 80s etc.... I think they were high out put units for construction work. Another option would be to get a compressor from a semi, drive it with a hyd motor and then get the MD hyd pto to run it......if you went this route, you could design the system with a winch in mind and have the whole set up....the MD stuff will drive a pump that will put out 60ltrs/min no worries