LR3 | Hitachi Air compressor Rebuild | New piston and barrel | Air suspension

Well my home city of Perth is on a 4 day lockdown and I cant fly to work. So I thought I'd jump into rebuilding my spare air suspension compressor for my Land Rover Discovery 3. This is the earlier Hitachi model as I haven't changed over to the AMK.
This one had excessive wear to the piston glide ring that eventually wore the barrel (cylinder) out. When it originally failed I ordered a basic rebuild kit but only discovered the wear when stripping it down the first time and at that point I ordered a complete new compressor.
I'm getting to the point where I should be doing a desiccant changeout on the current compressor but figured I would have this one ready to go and just do a swap out. I can then get the next one ready for a swap out in the future.
If you require a new piston and barrel, this is the parts I used: amzn.to/3wcdfkc
At time of uploading there was a limited availability of these, they are getting more and more uncommon so I would think at some point the old compressors are going to end up unrepairable. In order to avoid that make sure you maintain your air compressor - throw a new set of seals into it when you do your desiccant every few years.
for rebuild kits from Amazon- amzn.to/2WasZIe
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