[AT] Compressor Problems

[Cecil Bearden]

  An update on the compressor problem.    I received a post on Smokstak 
from a former owner of a smaller Inger soll compressor who stated that 
this occurred on his unit just before the compressor end failed and he 
could not get parts so he junked it...  I cannot afford to let this one 
get junked, so I am trying to find out what to look for.  Last year when 
running at idle I would hear something like a dry bearing squeal, but 
could find nothing out of the ordinary.  I remember Bo Hinch telling me 
that he used to make the vanes for these compressors and nearly 
everything could be re-made on them from a machine shop.

Cecil

On 6/8/2019 3:45 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>
> This is a little off topic, but I use this compressor to blow out my 
> hay equipment before putting it back in the shed, and also to blow out 
> the radiators.   It is a Ingersoll Rand VAne Type compressor 250 cfm 
> powered by a 4-53 Detroit diesel.   When the compressor build back up 
> and the engine begins to idle down it makes a loud clicking sound.  I 
> cannot determine if it is a rod knocking or maybe valve related.  I 
> know Bo Hinch had a lot of experience with these engine compressor 
> combinations.  I don't think the compressor is making the noise.   I 
> had some knocking in the engine a couple of years ago when I changed 
> the oil and used 15W-40 Mystic.   I changed over to 40W Mystic and it 
> stopped the knocking, but now the loud click.   I cannot afford for 
> this machine to be down if we ever get a hay crop to bale.  My baler 
> has to be blown out every day or the belts bind up with chaff and stop.
>
> Cecil
>
>
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