Air Suspension Compressor

Supplies the air that holds an air-sprung vehicle at its intended height, topping the springs up as they leak slowly — which they always do. Stop topping them up and the vehicle settles onto its bump stops within hours, so a car that was fine in the evening can be on the floor by morning. Sized for intermittent duty, so a genuine leak makes one run near-continuously until it burns out; replacing the compressor without finding the leak means doing the job twice, which is the same argument the corpus makes about secondary air pumps and hydraulic pumps.

Also known as: air compressor, suspension compressor, air pump, ride height compressor, air ride pump

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