Removing a/c compressor from coach. Bit off more than I can chew...

[Scott & Heather]

Got it loose. Removed all bolts...cut tubing...now it's stuck in in its little cradle and too stinking heaving to get out. Trying leverage, comealong, not sure how else to get it up and out into the clean and empty former holding tank area. Sigh. Oh to know someone with BIG muscles. My guns are just not up to it.

[belfert]

Engine hoist might help if you have access to one.

[Zeroclearance]

Rent or borrow a engine cherry picker to lift it out of there.   It will save your back..

[Busted Knuckle]

Scott it is not a job for one person! Now that said and your not planning on reusing it here is what I have done. (and heard about it later yada yada yada)

Get a piece of plywood for it to land on in "the clean and empty former holding tank area." (so it don't bust and go straight thru the plastic/fiberglass floor there)

Then take a pry bar and lift up the corner/side closest to that area & wedge in a small piece of plywood or a 1" X ?" piece of wood.

Then come around back to the main engine doors and use pry bar to lift while you push it off the cradle.  
 BK  

PS; don't do this with one that you are repairing or working on for someone else! (my father still gets mad at me when I mention "It's not a problem, I don't need help I've done it before.")

[Busted Knuckle]

Belfert & Zero;
Good suggestion, but btdt & not really any room to lift once cherry picker in there on his model bus!
  BK 

[belfert]

That is why I said it might help not knowing MCIs that well.  The compressor on my Dina was right next the the engine and an engine hoist would have worked great.  I didn't have one so a couple of us lifted it out.

[bevans6]

As long as you have removed ALL the junk attached to it, and truly disconnected it, it will be on a kind of rocker base that lets it pivot a bit to adjust the belt tension.  You need a crow bar, some wood for ramps and slides.  I got mine out with no particular problem, just leverage and a little skull sweat to judge the flow of momentum.  It helps a lot if you don't particularly need to keep it pristine, but you don't want it to damage the bus on it's way out the side door.

Brian

[Geoff]

If all the bolts/nuts and fittings are off I would hit the rear of it with a 4lb. lead shot plastic hammer to break it loose.  Someone must have glued both sides of the gasket.

BTW, getting it off is the easy part, to getting it back in the is hard part!  You have to line the gears up perfect, if you have studs you need someone to bar the engine over slowly as you push the compressor into place.

[buswarrior]

Geoff, AC compressor, not the air compressor.

but I do agree with your strategy!

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Geoff]

Geoff, AC compressor, not the air compressor.

but I do agree with your strategy!

happy coaching!
buswarrior

No wonder he is having problems!  If it were me I would figure out how to hang the second hook of the come along above the A/C compressor to lift it up and pull it out, but I have no idea what Scott is up against. 

[Scott & Heather]

problem solved. My 5 foot wife came out and helped me.   no lie. It's now happily sitting at the scrap yard.

[Taibob]

Behind every successful man is a good woman  LOL

[Busted Knuckle]

Geoff, AC compressor, not the air compressor.

but I do agree with your strategy!

happy coaching!
buswarrior

No wonder he is having problems!  If it were me I would figure out how to hang the second hook of the come along above the A/C compressor to lift it up and pull it out, but I have no idea what Scott is up against. 

Good catch BW........... I was looking @ Geoff's answer thinking Wed, Thurs, F[/b]ri ............ is he talking about gaskets? Both sides? huh?
Then it hit me just as I read BW's response I wasn't even thinking air compressor! Doh! as Homer would say!
  BK 

And yes Scott as I said a little help sure makes it easier no matter how pretty or small they are!

[David Anderson]

Every man needs a good wife

[Gerry4104]

LMAO..and YUCK !