I have two Yong Heng compressors, both gifted to me. One from my next door neighbor, and one from forum member Mike in Nashville. The one from my neighbor had been doing just fine until a recent session where I presume I overworked it, filling all my guns and topping off my 45 minute scba & a Airhog buddy. bottle It got up to 4000 psi filling my 45 minute scba tank, but no higher. The very next fill session it wouldn't budge over 2400 psi.
So I ordered parts, (from Amazon, coming from China) and turned to the unit Mike in Nashville gifted me. He told me up front that he had accidently run it w/o the water pump plugged in, but he did provide a new piston. I installed it even though I didn't have new gaskets. It ran fine for one session, but also wouldn't fill past 4000 psi. The next session it wouldn't build any pressure, so I ordered another gasket set.
In the meantime, I looked on e-bay and found a seller in California with gasket sets (including the second stage piston), so I ordered one. When it arrived, it came with TWO gasket sets and a complete piston! So I installed the new piston & gaskets set on the unit given to me by the neighbor. The piston fit very tight, and now it's locked up and won't pump at all.
So I finally dropped some coin on a new Yong Heng unit from Amazon, the one w/o the auto cut-off feature, and a 1.8 kilo watt motor. It looks just like the other two, with the exception of the oil fill cap - it is not the breather type oil cap, just a basic oil fill cap.
WISH ME LUCK!!!
EDIT: and I still can't spell
So I ordered parts, (from Amazon, coming from China) and turned to the unit Mike in Nashville gifted me. He told me up front that he had accidently run it w/o the water pump plugged in, but he did provide a new piston. I installed it even though I didn't have new gaskets. It ran fine for one session, but also wouldn't fill past 4000 psi. The next session it wouldn't build any pressure, so I ordered another gasket set.
In the meantime, I looked on e-bay and found a seller in California with gasket sets (including the second stage piston), so I ordered one. When it arrived, it came with TWO gasket sets and a complete piston! So I installed the new piston & gaskets set on the unit given to me by the neighbor. The piston fit very tight, and now it's locked up and won't pump at all.
So I finally dropped some coin on a new Yong Heng unit from Amazon, the one w/o the auto cut-off feature, and a 1.8 kilo watt motor. It looks just like the other two, with the exception of the oil fill cap - it is not the breather type oil cap, just a basic oil fill cap.
WISH ME LUCK!!!
EDIT: and I still can't spell
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