Just under 230,000 miles on her and I’m ashamed to say that this is the first time that I’ve personally attempted to fix the air suspension. I am getting a fault related to venting Gallery And my research indicated that it is often in the dryer. I have a dryer on hand and before I removed the old unit, I doused her with soap water and found that virtually every connection on the compressor was leaking. I’ve ordered myself with some different diameter air tube and some pneumatic push fittings but I’ve had to resort to cutting the compressor out on what I believe is the low pressure side. See pictures. Now that she’s in the bench, I anticipated I would be able to get these tubes out easier but they are in there for good. Any clever tricks on how to get these things out? I obviously know you much push the ring in to pull the tube out. Hate to have to buy an new compressor on the account that I can’t get the air lines out !

Any help would be appreciated.

https://imgur.com/gallery/EiItIpd

 

spray them with WD-40, and put the open end of a wrench on them to push them down.

 

Also, that venting code is your exhaust valve on the compressor, not the dryer.

 

Thank you sir. Always appreciate you steering me right.

 

Didn’t try the open end wrench. An obvious solution to smart people. by now the WD40 has had time to lube her up.

 

My future advice on these is to do what you did, cut them. Then just use two push connects. One I got out the other not and it created hell for me. One is 8mm the other 10mm. Apparently an issue is that the vibration/heat from the compressor can actually fuse one of the lines in place. So cutting with enough room for a push connector is probably a good idea.

 

So many things on the LR3/4 were designed for easy build at the factory, but not in field. Not the end of the world, but considering what Land Rover markets the vehicle to, I'd say I'm disappointed. Rock solid vehicle that is sometimes a pain to work on...

 

I was unsuccessful getting one of them out. The issue is that there is air coming from both connections and so replacing the hose that goes into the fitting WAS the entire plan here.

I’m left trying to remove this one, (8mm) line and it’s the one that unscrews from the compressor. It’s roughly 26 mm in diameter, but the thread is very fine and it also appears that there is some sort of one-way valve built into it. I don’t even know where to begin to try to assemble something that would have the same functionality. Am I in for a new compressor? The tragic part is the compressor was working just fine she was just a leaky girl

https://imgur.com/gallery/3QWH1oy