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Originally Posted by heavyhaulerss
. my air dryer sneezes every 10 second's. could this leak cause that?
when my dryer 1st started popping off so frequent, i was told it was the governor. put one on, no difference. told air dryer, put new one on, no difference, told air compressor. put one on, no difference. been sneezing for 2 years. had in shop. no one can tell me why it pops off so much. cost too much already by process of elimination & still got the problem. the only thing I can say is everything I had replaced had over 1 mil miles on it, so it probably was at the end off it's life anyway. I just wished 1 of the things I had replaced fixed the problem. downtown, cost me the most.
First of, any audible air leak will put you out of service.
A fan hub leaking air like that will run the fan all the time, and fan hubs can wear out so much they start falling apart, so ya, it should be fixed asap.
Any air leak can make your compressor continuously load or frequently cycle over and over.
Air dryer sneezing every 10 seconds... I would have changed the easiest and cheapest part first.
Those pop off valves on the bottom of the dryer screw up all the time, very common and could cause your problem with the air drier.Very common in my enviroment. (dust, dirt, ice, etc.)
Sometimes they sound like a rattle snake between sneezes and sometimes they just purge air between sneezes.
Really easy to change out, last one I seen was just a snap ring holding the spring/plunger assembly in.