Eagle Air leak

pete81eaglefanasty · February 04, 2010, 02:01:47 PM

A while back we found an air leak accidentally with me being so hard of hearing my wife standing next to me could hear it, we were refueling at the time. We were refueling on the left, but the right side was louder. To make the story short, when we got home my son went under the bus we got shop air going to the bus, he couldn't hardly hear it but by feeling around it he found it was on the s shaped cooler line, it's mounted up under the duel wheels on a steel plate next to the floor, it's a copper tubing that was twisted, in the twist the copper had cracked next to the fitting, so there was no way to fix it so we had to take it out, then we found out way it was twisted was because it wouldn't break free you had to take the whole s line out, it could not be fixed, the trouble was trying to find one. After we got it off it was in two pieces, see in the attached pictures. The line comes from the compressor to the s coil (which was broken) to the dryer. Had trouble finding one, calling all over the country, finally found one and find out that the fitting is silver soldered on. I just wanted Eagle owners to know about a possible are leak that is hard to find and fix due to the size of the wrenches and where it's at.

Pete & Jean
FANTASY

luvrbus · February 04, 2010, 02:30:31 PM

That is your air compressor cooling loop most of us just do away with it, wasn't that great of an idea to start with and you can move the dryer and use a stright line fwiw

good luck

Dreamscape · February 04, 2010, 05:33:43 PM

Clifford, When did they start using that?

Pete, Glad you found your leak. Maybe you should thank your Wife!

Paul

Van · February 04, 2010, 06:12:33 PM

Straight S/S braided line on mine to the dryer. fwiw

Dreamscape · February 04, 2010, 06:57:46 PM

Quote from: van on February 04, 2010, 06:12:33 PM
Straight S/S braided line on mine to the dryer. fwiw

Mine too, was just wondering when they did that. Maybe they did a few and quit. And there is a big age different between our choaches!

luvrbus · February 04, 2010, 07:11:12 PM

Paul,some of the last Brownsville built 05's had the setup but most 10's had it with a few model 15's it was a joke no air could get to it to cool the air so they just moved the dryer.

good luck

tomhamrick · February 05, 2010, 10:03:15 AM

My 1984 Model 10S has this setup as well. Clifford, My air dryer is located in the door in front of the radiator with the transmission fill tube. Where would it have been moved to if the coil was eliminated?
Thanks,
Tom Hamrick

luvrbus · February 05, 2010, 10:13:25 AM

Tom, when Bendix came out the AD-4 dryer they wanted a long run of tubing away from the compressor for cooling before the dryer so that was Eagle's answer you never know where a AD is going to be on a Eagle I seen them in the engine compartment (like mine) and in the spare tire compartment and points in between

good luck

Prather · February 05, 2010, 12:56:19 PM

On my 72 05 it is just a braided line from the compressor to the dryer which is located in the back drivers side corner of the bus. Someone in the early 80's (in Texas) converted my 05 to a 10 which included the caps, wiring, dash and just about everything else.

Prather

john9861 · February 05, 2010, 02:05:10 PM

Clifford,
Mine is in the same spot as Tom's. If I cut out the cooling coil & run straight to the dryer we're talking about 5 ft. Would that be ok?
Thanks, John

David Anderson · February 05, 2010, 04:55:23 PM

Looks like my metro 10 has that, too, right above the drive shaft between the drive wheels.