A/C Compressor (Sanden) adaptor plate ?

have you seen the adaptor plate on Pantera Place?
looks like the dimensions could be taken from orignal and new
http://www.panteraplace.com/page123.htm

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"Sanden" style compressor

These are to be avoided.

As are rebuilt Sanden units.

The sanden 'style' are Chinese copies and their longevity is not so impressive.

Mark Johnson, a one-man machine shop known as IPSCO, is a great guy to work with. I suspect he would ship to UK.

His offering is aluminum and thus likely under 4 pounds weight. USPS First class international package allows up to four pounds. Four pounds to UK is about $50. Or Priority Int. would be about $35.

Contact me by PM if you are interested in me receiving an adapter plate and then re-shipping it to you in UK. I've done a lot of international shipping over the years.

Larry

Hello Larry,

thank your for your offer to help with shipping I do appreciate it. the Ipsco bracket is superb but its a bit too expensive with shipping and tax too.
My £30 quid pump, will have to put up with a steel offering and be content with it!
again thank you for your help, best Pete.

Peter -

You have a great metal fab guy.

Just get the compressor (the real Sanden), and have him make the plate.

Look in my thread on 5357, and you will see what we did.

You don't need to make those tubes / ribs. We just fabbed up some "ears" coming off the main plate. I'm traveling, or I would get you some better pictures.

Anyone else in the USA should buy the IPSCO bracket, unless you like to fabricate for the fun of it.

Rocky

Hello Rocky, I am to pick up the pump tomorrow,

so I will take it to Bill, and get him to make one up for me, I should take some pics of Bills shop and put them up, its an old grammar school from a tiny town near to where I live, Bills going to retire and the building is for sale so I had better get my skates on. Sadly it will be demolished for new houses.
Don't know what I will do without the old bugger!

If you zoom in on the picture in this thread, you can sort of see how we made the ears. They were just cut out of 1/4" plate, and welded to the flat plate.

Page 4 of 5357 Thread

Another shameless plug for my thread, trying to keep ahead of David B.

PS. Note that on mine, we "outboarded" the alternator for the flat firewall mod.

You might think about putting the ears on too, in case you decide to do that in the future, but now is the time to configure the brackets.

Good luck. Maybe Bill wants to retire on your payroll? He could be your permanent fabrication expert!



Rocky

quote:

Originally posted by Rocky:
If you zoom in on the picture in this thread, you can sort of see how we made the ears. They were just cut out of 1/4" plate, and welded to the flat plate.

Page 4 of 5357 Thread

Another shameless plug for my thread, trying to keep ahead of David B.

PS. Note that on mine, we "outboarded" the alternator for the flat firewall mod.

You might think about putting the ears on too, in case you decide to do that in the future, but now is the time to configure the brackets.

Good luck. Maybe Bill wants to retire on your payroll? He could be your permanent fabrication expert!



Rocky

Bill won't make much selling his shop its a bit small, and for a grammar school must have had about only 2 teachers looking at the size of it.
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Rocky
did you re use the old drive belt, I see the pulley is a smaller dia than the york one.

Also did you drill and tap the top section of your new plate, to fix to the engine bracket or use nuts and bolts?

Bills too busy this week to help so I will tack it together and get him to weld it properly next week.

No, I used a smaller diameter belt. I did use a different type idler, but am not as happy with it as I would like.

I would like my pulley to push the belt down....

It causes my belts to crack.

I just drilled holes on the top, and then you use the idler pulley to adjust the tension.

Rocky

quote:

Originally posted by Rocky:
No, I used a smaller diameter belt. I did use a different type idler, but am not as happy with it as I would like.

I would like my pulley to push the belt down....

It causes my belts to crack.

I just drilled holes on the top, and then you use the idler pulley to adjust the tension.

Rocky

Made the bracket now, tacked up drilled and tapped the top plate screwed in 7/16" unf
bolts, will get them welded in place as well as the front and rear plates later on.

Cost so far $7 , has to be the cheapest in town!


Sadly after fitting the bracket and the pump, they were 3mm out of line with the other pulleys.

Tomorrow will cut off the rear bracket and reposition it, Hopefully plan B will be the right one.