DG
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Following the last few off-roading adventures with the disco3 crew, I noticed that my compressor was becoming increasingly noisy during use. I had a chat with 'guru' Slimer  and he advised me to take a look in the housing as there may be some deposits from various lands. So here's a short story of what I found.
For those that may not know where the compressor unit is..it's located just inboard of the sill, just in front of the nearside rear wheel. You don't need to jack the vehicle up to gain access to the housing, just set the suspension to off-road height.
Ensure that your vehicle is in Park\Gear and your EPB is on..the super safety conscious amongst you may wish to chock the wheels and use a trolley jack \ axle stands etc... but to be honest you don't really get very much of your body under the vehicle at any time and I personally didn't find this necessary.
The compressor casing is black and around 20 inches long and around 8 inches at it's widest. The casing has upper and lower sections and for the purpose of this exercise I only needed to remove the lower. This is held in place by three 10mm bolts with washers, two are attached to the chassis rail at each end and one up through the centre of the casing. There are also four plastic wedge type fasteners moulded into the casing to further secure the two parts together.
After removing the bolts and unclasping three of the four fastners...I pulled the casing down and was greeted by this. The whole unit was completely caked in mud !
What have we here?...I could just only make out cabling and connectors.
Is this some kind of fossil?
There was even a Triffid trying to sprout !
Both upper and lower casings have a moulded sponge like foam insert. This can be carefully removed if required.
I chose to use a hose to clean the lower casing and foam. Make sure you ring the foam out well and allow to dry as much as possible before replacing on the vehicle.
With the smooth hand of an archaeologist, carefully break away the encased mud. Be very careful not to damage any wiring, pipes or connections
After a good twenty minutes of picking, brushing and blowing out ...I found a compressor !!
The mud you see here is from the upper casing only. I reckon that overall there was at least 1.5kg's in there.
Replace the casing, bolts\ washers and ensure that the clips are all fastened.
My compressor now purrs like a kitten again  I always advise people never to give advice.
Last edited by DG on Fri Jan 02 2009 12:12am. Edited 1 time in total
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Beaker
Member Since: 29 Aug 2006
Location: 10 metres below sealevel and sinking...
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Wow, I am impressed, Rich 
Is that casing not designed to keep mud and dirt out?   2006 Zermatt Silver TDV6 'SE' Auto, Mantec sump guard, Frontrunner roofrack, Lightforce 140s, split charge system and... a Jetboil.
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DG
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I couldn't believe it either...I'm actually surprised that the thing kept running in those conditions.  I always advise people never to give advice.
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bkehoe
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I blame Boughrood myself - looks like Boughrood mud in your compressor too DG - it just seems to go everywhere!
I actually only cleaned mine out the other day as it was making wierd noises since France, and found it was full of Boughroods finest mud and Frances finest sand! IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
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DG
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Well a soil analysis in my laboratory concluded that there was French, Welsh and 2 types of English particles all huddled in their. What a combination eh !  I always advise people never to give advice.
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bkehoe
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And the origin of the plantlife? IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
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| Sun May 20 2007 6:32pm |
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DG
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It's not of this world that's for sure I always advise people never to give advice.
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DSL
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: On the wagon :(
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Had a new compressor fitted to Mrs DSL's D3 just after Christamas as it had gotten very noisey, stealer told me they had to steam clean it before the old one went back to LR.  Honda dogs say "It's a Land Rover, of course it will break down! If you wanted reliability you should have bought a Honda."
Can't take them anywhere!!!
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dflo
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Rich, ain't you got big thumbs....? "Funny, mine doesn't do that......."
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| Sun May 20 2007 7:41pm |
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DG
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Yeah ...for other reasons I wish I had little hands  I always advise people never to give advice.
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JMC
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DG wrote:Yeah ...for other reasons I wish I had little hands
 Do you want to make your hand-tool look bigger? The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom 
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| Sun May 20 2007 11:03pm |
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DG
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Well...put it this way ...the wife has big hands too  I always advise people never to give advice.
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scolliss
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DG wrote:Well a soil analysis in my laboratory concluded that there was French, Welsh and 2 types of English particles all huddled in their. What a combination eh !
Good job it wasn't pigs  t too! Life is what you make it.
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NoDo$h
Member Since: 02 May 2006
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Following on from DG's post, I took the cover off my compressor this evening and found a similar scene of carnage. Worth doing this as part of the post mudfest checks methinks.
Cheers for the tip DG 
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