So I had my air compressor rebuilt twice now. What is a good replacement/upgrade I can put in instead of rebuilding again.

 

Aside from looking at a place like gmpartsdirect and buying a new genuine gm part, I would google arnott industries and see what they have.

 

I used to do a lot of air suspensions on lowered show trucks. So I actually have a vair compressor sitting in my garage. I wonder if I could wire that in to it...

 

I'm not 100% sure that would work. There is a controller that controls the compressor and the vent solenoid (I think it is what it is called), so if it doesn't wire up the same, it probably wouldn't function right.

The other issue would be what if it blew up the air shocks you have on there currently? Then your replacing a compressor and shocks. Probably not worth the potential savings.

Arnott also makes a kit that deletes all of the airride stuff, so you might want to look into that. But now that I am thinking about it, maybe your air shocks are already toast, which is making the compressor fail?

When I bought my truck (used), one of the things the dealer replaced when they got it in (on trade) was the air compressor because it had thrown codes for it. After reading into it, turns out that one reason the compressor fails is the airbags on the shocks are shot, and the compressor runs all the time. I looked at mine and they looked ok, but since I was going to use the vehicle to tow, and because the compressor isn't cheap and it was brand new, I decided to replace the shocks. Was not cheap either (for the shocks). When I pulled them off, both bags on both shocks were completely shot. So I am guessing if I had left them, the compressor may have failed again as well.

So check the shocks. If they aren't holding air or the bags are ripped, you might need both anyways. And at that point you might decide to do the air ride delete.

FWIW, I got replacement rear oem shocks from arnott and so far so good. I recently changed the front struts as well, but I didn't go with oem because I didn't have the cash to do so, and just cut the sensor wires up front and wired in a resistor. Fronts aren't controlled by a compressor (at least on my truck), just the oems have some special fluid that can change the dampening of the shock when voltage is applied (so i've been told). I'll probably go back to oem up front eventually, but for now this does the job.

 

A long time ago Arnott rebuilt compressors but they were never as reliable as we wanted so now we only sell new OES (Original Equipment Supplier) air suspension compressors. https://www.arnottindustries.com/par...LET_yid11.html




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