Thread: Another onboard air system

Well after much delay I finaly pulled my finger out and mounted the Sanden air compressor I bought from the wrecker to the landy, it only took me 2 years.

After the butchery of a length of steel angle, some 10mm all thread rod and the grinding of a protruding engine lift ring, I managed to fit it on to the Isuzu. It only ended up taking about 2hours.

Now all I have to do is hook up the electrics and plumbing

Here are some pics of what I have done so far:



A view of the mounts.




Does anybody know what type of threads are used on the Sanden compressors as shown below? They are finer than normal brass fittings, perhaps I should not have thrown out the original fittings

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Cheers

Paul

Originally Posted by discowhite

thats probably going to shorten the life of the alternator, i personally wouldnt be adding extra load to the alternator bearings. is there anywhere else you could run AC belt?

also watch when the comp is finished and it and the alt are on, with the comp creating load and the alternator also loaded i reckon that you may see the belt slip then.
just something to watch.

on the threads, they are probably NPT, its a bit hard to tell from a photo.

cheers phil

There should not be any extra load on the alternator bearings, The compressor is run off the one belt not a second. The only load on the alternator bearings is from it keeping tension on the belt, exactly the same as the original layout.

Paul