January 23, 2009

i didnt know how simple this is to do. im glad i had the serpentine belt cause i would have pitched the a/c compressor when i got the truck as i did with everything that i wasnt using.

basically you just cut the ac lines. and hook up a air hose from the one that is throwing pressure. thats pretty much the just of it. had to go the junkyard to get the lines cause i unbolted them and threw them away a few months ago. used some old air hose and fittings i had laying around, rigged the compressor on a toggle and you have a air pump.






last time out a jeep had this set up. he was a life saver. my friend decided to run his 44s at like 8psi with no bead locks and blew 3 beads through out the day. and i even blew one some how running full pressure.

January 23, 2009

I''ve heard good and bad things about this set up.. Did you drain all of the refrigerant out?

January 23, 2009

the whole system is pretty much gone. alls it is is the compressor and the two lines. you can see the intake line just laying there.

whats the bad about it?

January 23, 2009

Not sure.. I remember seeing a post on pirate about it..

January 23, 2009

from what i was told by the guy with the jeep is that these things make a lot of pressure. if you just let it run it will explode the hose so he had to stand by the switch. i got a little bit of a advanage cause my front bumper is a tank so the pressure will take a bit more.... its kinda one of those emergency only type things. im not going to be using it to fill tires around the house

January 23, 2009

I think it was something about that and something about not draining the system first..

January 23, 2009

ill go search. like i said i ripped the a/c out when i first got the truck about a year ago. i know you have to oil it once and a while. if it breaks who cares. just hopefully it dont blow up near me

January 23, 2009

lol no kiddin

January 24, 2009

im puttin a secong alternator in where my AC comnpressor is.

January 24, 2009

what you need a second alternator for? i was thinking of doing that with my k5... even this s10 has a puny battery and a winch and my stock alternator is fine

January 24, 2009

My friend made an air compressor out of his AC on his 79 blazer. Works killer! I dont know how exactly he did it and what he had to do, but if you up the idle it will push quite a bit of air. It pumps up 35''s in no time flat.

I just realized I said pumps up in to time flat, get it? pump, flat. haha. Sorry......

January 24, 2009

its gonna run to an optima blue top and im gonna wire all my off road lights to that battery. so it will have its own lil system. so ill have the truck run off the red top and the lights and (hopefully soon) a winch off the blue top.

only 30 bucks to get the alternator (off an 87 c10) converted to one-wire-fire