Air con pump as on board air compressor.

[dr pepper]

I remember looking on this site a while back at a thread that mentioned using an air con pump as an air compressor.
I have a pump off a pugrot lying about its a sanden 7709, the one that was mentioned on the thread was off a range rover, I think it might have been a sanden I cant quite recall, any of you guys know.
The general idea was to take the pump apart, do summat to a valve and fill the 'ole lot full of grease, and connect an old k&n to the inlet.

 

[Jackual_NZ]

I have an old air brake compressor off a bus braking system, it has a little 10ltr storage tank, operated by an air conditioning pump clutch/belt set-up, works bloody real, handy for inflating tyres. I have heard about the air conditioning pump set up...but isnt an air conditioning pump more about the pressure it puts out, rather than the quantity??

 

[dr pepper]

Yeah the cfm of an air con pump is less than the air brake compressor, I was thinking though the air con idea is smaller, brackets are available to fi the 300tdi engine, and it has a electric clutch negating the need to take the drive belt off to save fuel when I'm not using it.
Dunno if an aircon pump would run a impact driver long or not.
Edit: done some digging and found this, I hope the mods dont mind me quoting another landy forum, look at this though all the gen needed here:

http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=2115