Great content and thank you for sharing it. I can't thank you enough. My compressor has been sort of a mystery unit. It has 30T 560v stamped on the Ingersoll-Rand ID plate under model number. In the serial number spot it has 30T in black ink and 397577 stamped in. The tank has a plate as well telling me was built in 1992. It was given to me by wife's employer. He refused to take anything for it regardless my insistence. He finally told me he knew it was a much better unit than the new one he just went out to harbor freight and purchased. He said he was in the middle of a couple jobs that could not wait. This one has sat by the working on for years now. He also said he was aware that the one he gave me was likely more valuable broken than the one he now uses was as a brans new unit. I can not confirm this but, I assume that the model number stamped on the pump stands for the whole unit and not the compressor pump? Decoded it simply means that 30T is the series of the whole unit tank motor and pump. Then 5 would stand for 5hp and the 60 is for gallon tank size. That would leave the V to mean Vertical. It has the reed valve set up like the one that you are rebuilding and a single coiled intercooler line between the low and high pressure cylinder heads. I am certain I found the issue when I pulled the high pressure head the head gasket was torn and a piece of it was causing the reed valve to stick and surface rust was starting to get to the point of pitting the metal. There was also water mixed in the oil. I figure due the the valve issue and Florida Humidity?? The unit had never been in the weather. Due to the fact that Ingersoll-Rand has not bothered to get back with me and I have no idea which gasket set to buy I bought some Fel-Pro Rubber-Fiber Sheet and used the old gaskets to make rubbings. I transferred the rubbings to pattern material and made templates. I the used the templates to transfer the exact shape of the gaskets to the gasket material. I then cut the gaskets myself. The reeds seemed fine along with the hardware after a good cleaning. I scrapped all the old gasket material off the best it would come off. I followed up with sanding all surfaces with an orbital to brighten up and make sure the parts were flat. . I treated the gaskets with never seize and put everything back together. Using 35 lb ft of torque and tightening in a the bolts in a crisscross pattern. Then retighten after 30 mins run time. The century 5hp single phase 230V motor was then torn down to discover the only thing it needed front bearing to be pulled and and new one pushed in place. The bearing was an easy fix and in stock at my local O Reilly's. It was made by National Bearing. The motor and wiring was then tested and runs smooth as silk. I have not put the belts back on to test everything, but the time is near. I am going to scope the tank first with a camera to verify that he inside is not in too bad of shape and may treat the inside with something if I can figure out how to accomplish it. Worst case I will coat the outside of the tank with Polyurea so that if a tank failure happened it would contain it. My pads to bolt it to the floor will arrive today and that will be the last step I hope before the test. If all goes well I will l be making a silencer and aftercooler next. Any help you could offer about the information I shared here would be greatly appreciated in advance. Last I know Mrs. Guru meant well by mentioning your heavy breathing, but people on You Tube can be real Jerks and I would not give them any ammunition. The heavy breathing It seems get heavier with age and is just a part of life. I notice my own heavy breathing sometimes in video footage that I have shot and think to myself, damn do I sound that out of shape? Really it is not as not, that noticeable in person and the mic from the camera just amplifies it. I am only 45 and I have a spinal cord injury that causes pain all day every day and all night every night. I know where the Guru is coming from and understand what it takes to just put our socks on in the morning. . It embarrasses me when my wife points it out because I just can't help it. I have not let my ailment stop me I still do all the things I used to do only slower. Also I just grunt more and breath heavier while working. I still do not depend on our broken Government to feed me and never will. Never apologize for a man that pushes through the pain, to get up and go to work every day. You guys seem to be having fun with your TH-cam Channel and I wish you all of the success that it may bring.
chad feel free to send me a picture of the pump. use thecompressorguru.com to contact me through ( i do not want to put the email here and have some bot catch it and spam me to death) I am a little confused as to which pump you have. It sounds like a v pump but the number you gave me from the tag doesn't make sense. send me a pic of the tag also. there is a video on youtube of a guy making a silencer out of a 5 gal bucket. that is going to be an upcoming episode shoot. I have a customer that wants 1. I sell a nice silencer it is on thecompressorguru.com But you sound like a real hands on guy. thanks for the input on the wife and my breathing. I had to do some editing because my conversation went off key LOL thanks for watching email the pics . I still do every thing i use to also you are right only slower. except bowl have not thrown a ball in 3 plus years, and yes I miss it . Bud
Mr Guru, I had a question, I have a Ingersoll 3000 and it's starting to make noise like the bearings are going bad, once you take the big pulley wheel off how does the crank come out? On one side it has that big cover on that has the oil filler plug and on the other side the small cover with the big wheel, I was curious as to what was involved in that, thank you so much for your time, I noticed the rods just free float on the crank?
with everything else taken off the pump lay the pump over on the opening that you accessed the rods through. I have no worked on a 3000 for a while I do not remember if there is a snap ring under the seal cover, if there is remove the snap ring. Then PRESS out the crank shaft pushing down on the end of the crank. you will need a press with a large opening to do this. the 3000 is a larger pump on the smaller pumps you may be able to take a large hammer and a piece of wood as a cushion. and hammer the crank out. DO NOT USE THE HAMMER DIRECTLY on the end of the crank. use wood or a piece of brass to keep from damaging the end of the crank. I do have Aftermarket high quality parts for this pump I can also get you OEM which is usually at least twice the amount of aftermarket. You may contact THE Guru through the link below. thecompressorguru.com Good luck. let me know how you make out on this project. Bud
@@THECompressorGuru Thank you so much for your help, that was quick,this compressor is inside a room so I'm guessing is gonna have to be taken out of the room to work on it? i assume thats the only way to replace the bearings is by removing the crank? We have a massive press where we can do this and pull the crank out,won't the rods bend when the crank is coming out or they will just slide off the crank as the crank is falling out while being pressed? hope that made sense, ha ha ha, i'm kinda bad about explaining things, thank you about the offer on the parts, that is great news and if we decide to go that route that would be what we would do,any money we can save is a plus. Does the crank ever bend from running it with a bad bearing or is that a anomaly on these engines? you are correct, its a biggin too, we have 2 of them,we are a machine shop but we try to do most of our own work,most of us have decades of experience working on huge natural gas compressors and things like that but we have never messed with a Ingersoll compressor like this thats why i was asking. It was pumping great when it started making this noise and it sounds exactly like a bad bearing,on the side that has the big wheel you can see that area there is wet like the bearing has been acting up and the seal has failed.
@@dntlss When I said everything has to come of before you pull the crank I meant that you need to remove the cylinders and pistons so once you have done that you should not bend a rod... removing the crank is THE only way to change bearings. we do have a high quality rod and bearing aftermarket kit for the 3000. contact me through thecompressorguru.com for more info
@@THECompressorGuru I gotcha now, man they couldn't have made that more labor intensive if they had tried,lol, thank you much for all your help, I will subscribe when I get home, your top notch in my book.
I've been getting a lot of "compressor explosion" videos recommended by TH-cam. The cause is always an old tank that rusted through. Has anyone ever thought to dump a pint of paint into a new tank to coat the inside thoroughly and pour off the remainder, thus extending the life of the tank?
It probably couldn't hurt. Thinking about it something like the permatex product "Rust Treatment" part number 81773 may work great for this application.
@@THECompressorGuru thank you, does your channel have any videos for building a compressor (I'm very cheap but smart) or do you know anyone that has such knowledge?
Great content and thank you for sharing it. I can't thank you enough. My compressor has been sort of a mystery unit. It has 30T 560v stamped on the Ingersoll-Rand ID plate under model number. In the serial number spot it has 30T in black ink and 397577 stamped in. The tank has a plate as well telling me was built in 1992. It was given to me by wife's employer. He refused to take anything for it regardless my insistence. He finally told me he knew it was a much better unit than the new one he just went out to harbor freight and purchased. He said he was in the middle of a couple jobs that could not wait. This one has sat by the working on for years now. He also said he was aware that the one he gave me was likely more valuable broken than the one he now uses was as a brans new unit. I can not confirm this but, I assume that the model number stamped on the pump stands for the whole unit and not the compressor pump? Decoded it simply means that 30T is the series of the whole unit tank motor and pump. Then 5 would stand for 5hp and the 60 is for gallon tank size. That would leave the V to mean Vertical. It has the reed valve set up like the one that you are rebuilding and a single coiled intercooler line between the low and high pressure cylinder heads. I am certain I found the issue when I pulled the high pressure head the head gasket was torn and a piece of it was causing the reed valve to stick and surface rust was starting to get to the point of pitting the metal. There was also water mixed in the oil. I figure due the the valve issue and Florida Humidity?? The unit had never been in the weather. Due to the fact that Ingersoll-Rand has not bothered to get back with me and I have no idea which gasket set to buy I bought some Fel-Pro Rubber-Fiber Sheet and used the old gaskets to make rubbings. I transferred the rubbings to pattern material and made templates. I the used the templates to transfer the exact shape of the gaskets to the gasket material. I then cut the gaskets myself. The reeds seemed fine along with the hardware after a good cleaning. I scrapped all the old gasket material off the best it would come off. I followed up with sanding all surfaces with an orbital to brighten up and make sure the parts were flat. . I treated the gaskets with never seize and put everything back together. Using 35 lb ft of torque and tightening in a the bolts in a crisscross pattern. Then retighten after 30 mins run time. The century 5hp single phase 230V motor was then torn down to discover the only thing it needed front bearing to be pulled and and new one pushed in place. The bearing was an easy fix and in stock at my local O Reilly's. It was made by National Bearing. The motor and wiring was then tested and runs smooth as silk. I have not put the belts back on to test everything, but the time is near. I am going to scope the tank first with a camera to verify that he inside is not in too bad of shape and may treat the inside with something if I can figure out how to accomplish it. Worst case I will coat the outside of the tank with Polyurea so that if a tank failure happened it would contain it. My pads to bolt it to the floor will arrive today and that will be the last step I hope before the test. If all goes well I will l be making a silencer and aftercooler next. Any help you could offer about the information I shared here would be greatly appreciated in advance. Last I know Mrs. Guru meant well by mentioning your heavy breathing, but people on You Tube can be real Jerks and I would not give them any ammunition. The heavy breathing It seems get heavier with age and is just a part of life. I notice my own heavy breathing sometimes in video footage that I have shot and think to myself, damn do I sound that out of shape? Really it is not as not, that noticeable in person and the mic from the camera just amplifies it. I am only 45 and I have a spinal cord injury that causes pain all day every day and all night every night. I know where the Guru is coming from and understand what it takes to just put our socks on in the morning. . It embarrasses me when my wife points it out because I just can't help it. I have not let my ailment stop me I still do all the things I used to do only slower. Also I just grunt more and breath heavier while working. I still do not depend on our broken Government to feed me and never will. Never apologize for a man that pushes through the pain, to get up and go to work every day. You guys seem to be having fun with your TH-cam Channel and I wish you all of the success that it may bring.
chad feel free to send me a picture of the pump. use thecompressorguru.com to contact me through ( i do not want to put the email here and have some bot catch it and spam me to death) I am a little confused as to which pump you have. It sounds like a v pump but the number you gave me from the tag doesn't make sense. send me a pic of the tag also.
there is a video on youtube of a guy making a silencer out of a 5 gal bucket. that is going to be an upcoming episode shoot. I have a customer that wants 1. I sell a nice silencer it is on thecompressorguru.com But you sound like a real hands on guy. thanks for the input on the wife and my breathing. I had to do some editing because my conversation went off key LOL thanks for watching email the pics . I still do every thing i use to also you are right only slower. except bowl have not thrown a ball in 3 plus years, and yes I miss it . Bud
Mr Guru, I had a question, I have a Ingersoll 3000 and it's starting to make noise like the bearings are going bad, once you take the big pulley wheel off how does the crank come out? On one side it has that big cover on that has the oil filler plug and on the other side the small cover with the big wheel, I was curious as to what was involved in that, thank you so much for your time, I noticed the rods just free float on the crank?
with everything else taken off the pump lay the pump over on the opening that you accessed the rods through. I have no worked on a 3000 for a while I do not remember if there is a snap ring under the seal cover, if there is remove the snap ring. Then PRESS out the crank shaft pushing down on the end of the crank. you will need a press with a large opening to do this. the 3000 is a larger pump on the smaller pumps you may be able to take a large hammer and a piece of wood as a cushion. and hammer the crank out. DO NOT USE THE HAMMER DIRECTLY on the end of the crank. use wood or a piece of brass to keep from damaging the end of the crank.
I do have Aftermarket high quality parts for this pump I can also get you OEM which is usually at least twice the amount of aftermarket.
You may contact THE Guru through the link below.
thecompressorguru.com
Good luck. let me know how you make out on this project.
Bud
@@THECompressorGuru Thank you so much for your help, that was quick,this compressor is inside a room so I'm guessing is gonna have to be taken out of the room to work on it? i assume thats the only way to replace the bearings is by removing the crank?
We have a massive press where we can do this and pull the crank out,won't the rods bend when the crank is coming out or they will just slide off the crank as the crank is falling out while being pressed? hope that made sense, ha ha ha, i'm kinda bad about explaining things, thank you about the offer on the parts, that is great news and if we decide to go that route that would be what we would do,any money we can save is a plus.
Does the crank ever bend from running it with a bad bearing or is that a anomaly on these engines? you are correct, its a biggin too, we have 2 of them,we are a machine shop but we try to do most of our own work,most of us have decades of experience working on huge natural gas compressors and things like that but we have never messed with a Ingersoll compressor like this thats why i was asking.
It was pumping great when it started making this noise and it sounds exactly like a bad bearing,on the side that has the big wheel you can see that area there is wet like the bearing has been acting up and the seal has failed.
@@dntlss When I said everything has to come of before you pull the crank I meant that you need to remove the cylinders and pistons so once you have done that you should not bend a rod...
removing the crank is THE only way to change bearings.
we do have a high quality rod and bearing aftermarket kit for the 3000.
contact me through thecompressorguru.com for more info
@@THECompressorGuru I gotcha now, man they couldn't have made that more labor intensive if they had tried,lol, thank you much for all your help, I will subscribe when I get home, your top notch in my book.
@@dntlss the crank is the first thing in and the last thing out . you are right.
I've been getting a lot of "compressor explosion" videos recommended by TH-cam. The cause is always an old tank that rusted through. Has anyone ever thought to dump a pint of paint into a new tank to coat the inside thoroughly and pour off the remainder, thus extending the life of the tank?
It probably couldn't hurt. Thinking about it something like the permatex product "Rust Treatment" part number 81773 may work great for this application.
@@THECompressorGuru thank you, does your channel have any videos for building a compressor (I'm very cheap but smart) or do you know anyone that has such knowledge?
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