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j-d
Jun 11, 2013Explorer II
Unless you can find a serpentine crankshaft pulley and maybe idler pulley, that eBay compressor with a serp pulley's gonna be hard to drive. Or, you'd have to change the clutch/pulley assembly to go V-Belt like the rest of your pulleys. It's also a "cross bolt" mount design. If you're fabbing your own bracket, you can probably get away with that. Pricing is good since it includes a lot of what you'd need.
The outfit that had the "Sankyo" compressors now has one called "Alpha" that looks like this

It has the "mounting ears", 4 on the bottom, that would drop into a bracket made of angle or channel. Like the one you found, it DOES have the "O-Ring" hose connections. Many compressors use either what I'll call a Hose Manifold that tightens to the compressor with one bolt, or you have to find port adapters to connect to an O-Ring hose end. The 6P148A used port adapters but I had them (kick again!) and mounting ears like pictured above.
The outfit that had the "Sankyo" compressors now has one called "Alpha" that looks like this

It has the "mounting ears", 4 on the bottom, that would drop into a bracket made of angle or channel. Like the one you found, it DOES have the "O-Ring" hose connections. Many compressors use either what I'll call a Hose Manifold that tightens to the compressor with one bolt, or you have to find port adapters to connect to an O-Ring hose end. The 6P148A used port adapters but I had them (kick again!) and mounting ears like pictured above.
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