Hey All. I'm down one cruisair. As usual, my first call was to Johnny at AAP. And as usual, he went above and beyond. Volt meter in hand, he walked me through a diagnosis. Turns out my compressor is bad. So far, so good.
So I'm near Dallas/Fort Worth next week and thought I'd get the new compressor installed at either Prevost or Marathon. Bolt told me the same thing. They don't install compressors, they replace the entire cruisair. The new (I assume rebuilt) cruisair runs $2,000, plus 4 hours labor to install it. Both said they don't like messing with sweating the new compressor in and prefer to just replace the whole unit. This seems strange to me. Am I missing something? I can get the new compressor from AAP direct. (Heck, I could get a whole new cruisair unit from them for $1250.) I just can't vacuum the lines down and refill them myself.
Am I missing something here? There has got to be a way to get a new compressor installed into what is otherwise a perfectly good unit. Sure do wish this happened when I was trucking past AAP in Virginia. Anybody know of a place in central TX to get this fixed? Here is our list of stops over the next couple of weeks:
Marshall, TX
Paris, TX
Terrell, TX
Irving, TX
Brownwood, TX
Midland, TX
Carlsbad, NM
Artesia, NM
Plainview, TX
And then, if I haven't got it fixed by then, a very long trip down to Juno Beach, FL. I could take any variety of routes... especially if somebody has a good idea of where to get the compressor installed and the unit charged.
Any ideas? I'm thinking this shouldn't be so difficult. I seem to remember pictures of some dude out in the dessert somewhere replacing a compressor on a POG bus? Who was it?
Thanks for the help.
~Adam