York fittings with a bonus full 210 York comp!

[Jim]

While I have a compressor on the jeep, that is "working", the project is not complete (there's always something).

So, the jeep is sporting a York 210 compressor. The 210 is the largest of the three common sizes (210, 209, 206). It's also the lighter weight version as York has cast aluminum bodies where the Tecumseh uses cast iron bodies (10 lbs heavier). I assume both utilize steel or cast iron liners for the cylinders (York manual says cast iron liners).

The existing setup has a few issues
- Output fitting is a plumbing fitting that does not have great thread matching to what's on the compressor (read - lots-o-teflon tape and finger crossing it won't fly off [surprisingly it hasn't])
- Output hose is hardware store air line and isn't handling the heat of the compressor output
- Existing compressor still passes a fair bit of oil into the air stream even though I've tended one "oil mod" to block off an oil passage.

I want to get as much of this sorted this spring.

I had time today and figured I'd visit the salvage yard east of Greeley - by the airport - if only to walk away with a high-side / pressure hose from about any air conditioning system. Up and down some isles - a great day to be junk-yard'n today! - and at an isle end was a ?Wagoneer? WITH AN UN-TOUCHED YORK A/C SYSTEM! I assumed all York compressors had been scavenged from the yards around here - but maybe I'd find a high side hose. A bonus to find an intact system. Icing is that it's another 210 compressor.

Today's score is a proper fitting and a likely usable hose. One end has a factory fitting and I'll see about having a fitting installed onto the other end (to match the 1-gal air tank hanging below the battery). Either way - I should have two items crossed off of the list. The third might be reduced if this compressor passes less oil than the existing unit.

I'll likely tend the oil mod on this unit - along with a "fill-to" mod on the side of the case to make re-filling crank case oil easy - and will stick it onto the jeep. I'll take the on-jeep 210 off to look at replacing the piston ring with a teflon style ring to see if it can reduce oil consumption.

Yard cost - $25 part + $8 core. Worth the drive!

A fun day.

[Brian]

Nice! Gotta love days like that.

[Jim]

It'll be nice getting a proper fitting in place...

[The StRanger]

It’s kinda sad to see classic steel like that in a bone yard.
But that is a nice find.

[Jim]

`agree.

An AMC PACER caught my eye - way old and an odd duck. Motor and trans - gone with a PICKED CLEAN engine bay. Body was in decent shape with rear, curved windows in it - likely the reason it stays.