Good morning.
I'd just come to the conclusion that a leaking NRV1 was draining the tank to different degrees when another issue arose. I watched the tank pressure gauge after the last three rides and over a couple of hours the pressure dropped slowly to stop at 29, 100 and 130PSI respectively. I thought I'd fix that in the near future. Last morning the tank pressure was zero and I expected the tank to fill up in 6 minutes like it did last week. Compressor seal changed recently. Contrary to my belief it wouldn't rise but kept flashing when it tried to regain standard height after having automatically lowered on the highway. I pushed down on the rocker switch, it immediately stopped flashing and i pushed the inhibit switch and drove home. Then I noticed the gauge was still at zero and didn't move at all when the compressor ran. I removed the inlet filter and could only feel a very light suction. I removed the airline and could almost stop the air coming out of the compressor with my finger. The sound/vibration was also sort of quiet, sounding different but still clean, not at all like it usually sounds. This sudden loss of compressor power made me think seal wear was probably not the problem so I figured the seal had split up. Whwn I took the compressor apart the seal, liner and reeds/valves were all fine. As were piston which revolved nicely without play.
I then opened up the back plate and a whole lot of carbon fell out even some larger fragments. Cleaned and put back toghether. Brushes looked fine.
Can it be insufficent voltage to the compressor causing a low rpm? I've searched the forum but couldn't find anything about a weak compressor apart from worn seal/liner. I really don't know though and therefore would be very grateful for any ideas.
All the best
Per
I'd just come to the conclusion that a leaking NRV1 was draining the tank to different degrees when another issue arose. I watched the tank pressure gauge after the last three rides and over a couple of hours the pressure dropped slowly to stop at 29, 100 and 130PSI respectively. I thought I'd fix that in the near future. Last morning the tank pressure was zero and I expected the tank to fill up in 6 minutes like it did last week. Compressor seal changed recently. Contrary to my belief it wouldn't rise but kept flashing when it tried to regain standard height after having automatically lowered on the highway. I pushed down on the rocker switch, it immediately stopped flashing and i pushed the inhibit switch and drove home. Then I noticed the gauge was still at zero and didn't move at all when the compressor ran. I removed the inlet filter and could only feel a very light suction. I removed the airline and could almost stop the air coming out of the compressor with my finger. The sound/vibration was also sort of quiet, sounding different but still clean, not at all like it usually sounds. This sudden loss of compressor power made me think seal wear was probably not the problem so I figured the seal had split up. Whwn I took the compressor apart the seal, liner and reeds/valves were all fine. As were piston which revolved nicely without play.
I then opened up the back plate and a whole lot of carbon fell out even some larger fragments. Cleaned and put back toghether. Brushes looked fine.
Can it be insufficent voltage to the compressor causing a low rpm? I've searched the forum but couldn't find anything about a weak compressor apart from worn seal/liner. I really don't know though and therefore would be very grateful for any ideas.
All the best
Per
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