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Old 09-06-2020, 06:27 PM   #25
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Re: 1972 C20 -Airride conversion-

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Originally Posted by Wiekser View Post
-Update-

Took the oilpan off and welded a bung to it.
Put it back together with new seals and made a hose form my compressor oil pan to the engine oil pan.

So with oil going into the compressor and oil going back to the engine we're ready for a testrun.

https://youtu.be/Mj82cHnSsuo

It runs really smooth. I'm really happy with this.
offcourse when its making 8 bar (100+ psi) it will pull a lot more on the belt. But for what I see now I'm not conserned with it failing.


With the compressor working I can work on getting the air in the tanks.
The air will be going from the compressor into a 3 meter (10 foot) tube in front of the radiator.
This will cool the air down a bit.



After that the air wil go though a big oil and moisture separator with built in safety valve (blow off at 210 psi), filter regenerationvalve and external filtered filling.

From there it wil feed a regeneration air reservoir and the main air tanks under the bed.



So I'll try to explain what it does and how it works.

The compressor clutch will turn on when the main tanks (under the bed) are running low on air.
Than it will fill the main tanks simultaneously with the regenaration tank.
When the main tanks are filled to a set pressure the valve will switch and the regenaration tank will empty though the filter to atmosphere. So it will blow the moisture out of the filter.
When that happens the regeneration air tank wil drop below a set pressure, and the clutch on the compressor will turn off.

You may ask, is this nessesary to have? - No, not really

That's it for now.
More stuff in the works.
Complicated but cool.
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