What did you do to your truck today!

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by RossRinSD

My fuggin compresser finally died. Its been having some issues, takes forever to get pressure over 100 PSI. Its a decent Craftsman I purchased almost 15 years ago. I let a buddy borrow it/stored it as his house while I was moving about 2 years ago. When I got it back, the little plastic air filter holder was broken. I didn't worry too much about it at the time...

FFWD to today when the thing won't get up over 60 PSI. I pulled the head, and found where a piece of the plastic air filter holder had gotten in, screwed up the ring on the piston, and then the piston scuffed the hell out of the bore sleeve.

What sucks even more is I saved up for a plasma cutter which will be delivered tomorrow, but with no compressor, I won't get to use it.

Anybody know where I can buy a rebuild kit for a Craftsman compressor? A new sleeve and piston ring should get me by for the next 15 years...

And people wonder why I hate loaning my stuff out...

I did however get my radiator overflow bottle installed. It worked wonderfully, except I didn't fill it enough, the engine warmed up and purged all this air out, and maybe a cup or two of coolant into the resevoir. Once it cooled back down, it sucked the resevoir dry, and probably a bunch of air.

My old compressor died too, but just from age. I replaced the compressor motor with one I picked up from Harbor Freight. 2 years and it is still running strong. In my case it was about the same price as rebuilding my old one.