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odd ball question
ok guys, here's one i bet u haven't heard before... does anybody know of a company that makes or sells an air compressor that's pto driven off of the transmission? in my case i have a t-18 4spd, and i just want a compressor to bolt onto the accessory plate so it's run off of the counter shaft in my tranny.
getting sooo tired of tossing my shop air compressor in the back of the truck, dragging out miles of extension cord, and even more air hose...want some portable air so my headaches...and backaches...go away!
getting sooo tired of tossing my shop air compressor in the back of the truck, dragging out miles of extension cord, and even more air hose...want some portable air so my headaches...and backaches...go away!
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if you're not using the PTO for hydraulics then just make a mount and direct drive it off of the pto shaft. you'll have to make a coupling of some sort to go from the shaft of the compressor to the yoke of the pto shaft. i've never done it but i often thought about doing it on my old 66 mercury M350.
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are u speaking of a pto housing that bolts up to the tranny, driven off of the coutershaft? i kinda assumed that if there was a compressor built for this tranny, then it would have the gear and everything ready to bolt on. but if there is just a pto housing that bolts up, then i could make that work pretty easily...know of anybody that supplies that?
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That seems like a lot of work and expense to go to when you could just mount a compressor under the hood. Brackets arn't that hard to build. We actually mounted a compressor on the steel inner finder on an 83 Chevy one ton. Just welded a half inch plate directly to the inner finder and added the bracket ears and aligned and mounted the compressor. (an air conditioner compressor). We then ran a belt to the alternator, which had a double belt pulley. We put an eighty gallon propane tank in the back for air storage. It would pump up around 120 pounds of pressure. It worked great for many years.
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are u speaking of a pto housing that bolts up to the tranny, driven off of the coutershaft? i kinda assumed that if there was a compressor built for this tranny, then it would have the gear and everything ready to bolt on. but if there is just a pto housing that bolts up, then i could make that work pretty easily...know of anybody that supplies that?
The most common use is to install the pto onto the tranny, and it has a lever or cable that engages or disengages the gearing. Then a drivehshaft is hooked up to the pto adapter, and it runs over to a bracket on the frame where a hydraulic pump is mounted. This is what works the dump bed. If you have fab skills, you could use the driveshaft to run a compressor.
Here's an article on the adapters. http://jeep.off-road.com/jeep/articl....jsp?id=260340
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Look at both sides of your tranny. If you have a large square plate with bolts, then yours is setup to accept a standard pto adapter. These are very common and can be bought from a local shop that puts dump bodies and utility bodies on trucks.
The most common use is to install the pto onto the tranny, and it has a lever or cable that engages or disengages the gearing. Then a drivehshaft is hooked up to the pto adapter, and it runs over to a bracket on the frame where a hydraulic pump is mounted. This is what works the dump bed. If you have fab skills, you could use the driveshaft to run a compressor.
The most common use is to install the pto onto the tranny, and it has a lever or cable that engages or disengages the gearing. Then a drivehshaft is hooked up to the pto adapter, and it runs over to a bracket on the frame where a hydraulic pump is mounted. This is what works the dump bed. If you have fab skills, you could use the driveshaft to run a compressor.
ya, that's wat i have in mind. i've got the access panels to the coutershaft on my tranny and just want a cable engaged compressor. i'll have to get with one of these local truck companies down here and c wat the availability and price would be on one of those.
i could make an ac compressor work, but i would just rather have the tranny driven compressor because i have a working ac in the truck already and with the upcoming engine upgrades i plan on, don't really want anything else in my way when i'm under the hood
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