URGENTLY WANTED COMPRESSOR 400-118

#)#%)#%&$ Compressor has failed on our Astral Bus...2 hours before the new owner collected!!!!!!!!
Its mounted on the front of a Detroit so I THOUGHT it wouldnt be hard to replace LOL!!!!!!!
Any ideas? CAn they be reco'd? Why isnt it just a case of new rings? (Not pumping a breeze let alone air) Havent opened it up to have a look see...just want a quick option right now, not necessarily cheap (although that would be nice)
Hooroo
DD

westinghouse 400 2 cyclinder comp would be rare to not pump at all i would check the button valves -stuck or broken spring? , if gear driven gm style check it is actually turning!!!

Thanks Ivor, Will pop the head off tomorrow for a look see.

Ding
Gudday M8

Sum of the screemers have the compressor bolted to the blocks @ end of cam shaft
the earlier V: had a Fibre gear to make the coupling
quite normal for the fibre cog to disintegrate

Also U could try the bush stethoscope


ButWaddaEyeKno

That could make sense Swishy, its on the end of the block adjacent to the valley formed by the V6....Would the alternator (also a direct drive) be driven off the other cam? It sits dangerously close to the compressor. I didnt look into the block...I wasnt laying around in the bowls of a 40' coach with a crook back for too long....but the drive on the compressor is a long splined affair and looked clean...Doesnt sound like its geared does it....... just straight drive.... Although with two dead batteries, a spiked tyre, a jammed engine bay door ram (popping a set of hinges off) and now this all in two days I wouldnt be suprised if Im up for an engine rebuild!!!!!!!!! :'(

Well twenty five hundred bucks later and we have air! The collars around the ball valves had disintegrated, basically stuffing the head, easier to get a whole new unit than a head...Fortunatley it was direct drive so no awkward moments with fibre gears. Thanks for all your help guys.
DD

well done Ddan, nice to get the end of the story too..


/me