Help diagnose LR3 Air Compressor?

A.J.M

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I've heard bad reviews of the polybush and the metal fatiguing due to the removal and refit of the bush.

My uppers were done on my driveway. My LR Indy is mobile do he did them while I went to work. No body mounts etc were moved.

I had similar issues with my old Hitachi compressor. A new AMK lives in its place.
I have the iid tool so I could update the software to the amk but also the pipes on my old unit were seized in place. Cutting them to fit the amk worked out best for me.
 

zelatore

Explorer
I think I did a story on the break last fall when it happened. Here's the short of it:

Was in AZ for the WNLRR; on the way there I ran Back way to Crown King and since I wasn't traveling alone for once I took all the 'fun' lines. This combined with some previous rock crawling in the prior month likely cracked the weld at the bushing. Oh, don't forget to throw in maybe 15 miles of washboard roads. The next day I was on a simple gravel road up by Jerome and began hearing a scary clunk from the rear. Pulled over and it didn't take long to find the culprit. I eased it back to camp and made arrangements with an AZLRO member who was coming up from Phoenix to pick up a replacement control arm from LR Scottsdale. While he was on the way I pulled the old broken one out and when he arrived I stuck the new one in - it came complete with stock bushings, which I'm still running. I don't really think it had much/anything to do with the polybushes, more likely it was due to a very heavy truck being used hard in the rocks.

Yes, I did a full inspection of all the control arms when I got home and didn't find any cracks.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled compressor discussion.
 

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