n14 air comp odd issue

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  1. chainslingr

    chainslingr Bobtail Member

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    Hi all. We've got a 96 379 n14 1.2 m miles in framed about 100k ago. The compressor has been passing oodles of oil for awhile now. Builds air like a lizzard blowing for extra cash. The owner said we had another truck with a n14 and they chased a similar problem for months I guess they had some other problem that would cause a good compressor to blow oil through. Couldn't find anything in any search's anything you guys have ran into?
     
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  3. blanco

    blanco Road Train Member

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    get a new air compressor.
     
  4. blanco

    blanco Road Train Member

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    a cut or broken line from air compressor to truck dryer will also cause slow air buildup. Also check dryer to wet tank air connectors.
     
  5. chainslingr

    chainslingr Bobtail Member

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    It builds air and holds air with no problem. Is just dumping oil. One of our other wreckers had the same problem and when they changed the compressor it still had the oil blow by problem. No one can remember what it was though. What I'm trying to find out is if there is a common problem with them that can cause oil blow by other than the compressor
     
  6. Heavyd

    Heavyd Road Train Member

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    Compressors with a restricted clean air intake, or a restricted oil drain will blow oil.
     
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  7. Smellfunny

    Smellfunny Road Train Member

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    Speaking of oil drains. Don't you just love those guys that use silicone on new compressor mounting gaskets or water pumps. We have a shade tree that works on trucks in our area. Whenever someone comes in and I see that red silicone I always ask the customer "did so and so work on your truck?" And they say "how did you know?"
     
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  8. chainslingr

    chainslingr Bobtail Member

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    Yea we have a few techs that are obsessed with rtv. We also have a few who use heat shrink butt connectors and don't shrink them. Anymore I tend to try to do as much work as possible on my own truck as I cannot stand other peoples quality of work.
     
  9. Mr.X

    Mr.X Heavy Load Member

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    Exactly! Never played with trucks air compressors much, but have painted a lot of cars and seen the same thing happen, just from over-spray plugging a filter.
     
  10. chainslingr

    chainslingr Bobtail Member

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    the intake is fine nice and clear which I would assume would also cause slow air building which Isnt a problem. Mr.x it draws air from the intake manifold as some one decided the easy to change filter on the sidthe the compressor was to hard. #### engineers. Which causes premature falure of the compressor. I'll be convetting it to a old style filter as soon as I can get the parts
     
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  11. Mr.X

    Mr.X Heavy Load Member

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    Thank you! Thats interesting. Makes me wonder if a bad seal in the turbo could be pushing a little oil into the intake where the compressor could pick it up? I know it doesn’t take much oil and water in an air tank to make it look like you got a real bad problem.
     
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