Air compressor blown head gasket
Air compressor blown head gasket
(OP)
We recently received many returned compressors with blown head gasket problem. Open up the head block revealed some of the valve plates are distorted. Any idea what are the possible cause of blown head gasket and distorted valve plate.
Info of the air compressor:
Reciprocating type with direct motor coupled. 2 LP and 1 HP
Intercooler + after cooler, air cooled
Application: Pneumatic circuit for tooling, Industrial plant, Air temperature can be as low as -20C
Thanks.
Info of the air compressor:
Reciprocating type with direct motor coupled. 2 LP and 1 HP
Intercooler + after cooler, air cooled
Application: Pneumatic circuit for tooling, Industrial plant, Air temperature can be as low as -20C
Thanks.





RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei, Italian Physicist
RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
Or do you provide air compressors to the world-at-large and have no idea how they are being used and misused?
How many have failed this way? Two? Two dozen? Two hundred?
RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
many reciprocating compressors use the main pulley to cool the compressor´s head
RE: Air compressor blown head gasket
all were from heat