1972 C20 -Airride conversion-

[SCOTI]

Impressive work on the pulleys.

[Wiekser]

-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.

[SCOTI]

Originally Posted by Wiekser

-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.

[Wiekser]

It has been a long time since the last update.
I've been out of motivation for a little bit, but I'm trying to get back at it.

Some things that dit happen:

Made a bracket on the rightside head.



This will hold a belt tentioner for waterpump drive belt.
using the threaded hole in the head, a waterpump bolt and a intake manifolt bolt to get it mounted solid.

Made a little sliding bracket for the pulley, and mounted it up:



Mounted the alternator


And with a tentioning rod.



Decided to mount al the electrical stuff, and the valve block inside of a watertight box. Just so the most of the dirt and dust stays off of all the expensive stuff. So this is what i got.


started filling it up


made nice sealed holes for the air lines

still needs some more work done, for cable looms and such.

I'm working on getting more done in less time, cause it's kinda frustrating to just let it sit.