ABAC AB13-30GH 13 HP Honda Gas Drive Air Compressor - 30 Gallon Horizontal, 175 PSI, 22 CFM

The ABAC AB13-30GH puts full shop-grade air anywhere a truck can reach. A 13 HP Honda gas engine drives a T39 hybrid pump on a 30 gallon horizontal ASME tank, producing 22 CFM at a maximum 175 PSI with no electrical service required. At 378 lbs it is the lightest machine in ABAC's gas engine range, which is what makes it the one crews actually lift onto a service bed.

Key specifications

• Model: AB13-30GH (part number 8090304620)
• Engine: 13 HP Honda gas, 12V electric start with recoil backup
• Pump: T39 two-stage Hybrid Pro, aluminum block with cast iron cylinders
• Air delivery: 22 CFM at max pressure
• Maximum pressure: 175 PSI
• Tank: 30 gallon horizontal, ASME tank and safety valves, EZ pull tank drain
• Dimensions: 45 x 19 x 45 in
• Weight: 378 lbs
• Fully enclosed belt guard
• Warranty: 2 year full, assembled in the USA

What the Hybrid Pro pump brings

ABAC lists the AB13-30GH on its engine range as the single Two-Stage Hybrid Pro gas model, and the T39 pump is where that name comes from. ABAC builds the Hybrid Pro pump as an aluminum pump carrying cast iron cylinders, with an aluminum head and aftercooler, and describes its inner cooling technology as managing operating temperature to reduce the risk of overheating. The practical effect is a pump that wears like cast iron where it matters while the aluminum castings keep the mass down, and that is the whole argument for this machine: 22 CFM in a 378 lb package, where the fully cast iron Ironman pumps delivering 23 to 32 CFM start at 509 lbs.

How it compares

This is the Hybrid Pro gas model, and the trade it makes is weight against pump life. The aluminum and cast iron T39 pump brings the machine in at 378 lbs and 22 CFM. Step across to the fully cast iron Ironman pump and the numbers move together: the 11 HP Honda ABC11-30GH delivers 23 CFM at 509 lbs, the 13 HP Honda ABC13-30GH delivers 25 CFM at 519 lbs, the 14 HP Kohler ABC14-30GK matches it at 526 lbs, and the 16 HP Vanguard ABC16-30GV tops the range at 32 CFM and 605 lbs. All five run 175 PSI on a 30 gallon horizontal tank. If the compressor lives on a truck and gets loaded and unloaded daily, the 130 to 230 lbs this model saves is the deciding number. If it runs hard every day in one place, the cast iron Ironman pump is the one built for it.

Typical applications

ABAC rates its engine range for heavy duty work where mobility is the point and no electrical outlet is available, and rates the Hybrid Pro pump for air and water spraying, impact wrenching and screwing. In practice that means mobile service and tire trucks, construction and framing crews, fence and deck installation, roofing and siding, agricultural and farm work away from the shop, and any remote site where running an air tool matters more than finding an outlet. At 22 CFM it will keep an impact wrench, a framing nailer or a pair of air hammers fed, and the 30 gallon ASME receiver stops the pump short cycling between tool triggers.

Siting and running a gas drive

Run it outdoors or in an open bay, never in a closed shop or a van with the doors shut, because the engine exhausts carbon monoxide. Keep it level so the engine and pump oil sit where they should, leave the flywheel and belt guard clear air for cooling, and drain the tank at the end of the day. ABAC fits the EZ pull tank drain and the fully enclosed belt guard for exactly this duty cycle, where a machine gets loaded, bounced down a road and started cold again the next morning. The 12V electric start saves the rope pull on those cold mornings and the recoil backup means a flat battery does not end the shift, so check the engine oil at every fuel fill and keep a spare pump oil and air filter element on the truck.

Part of ABAC's Engine Drive range from the Atlas Copco group. See the rest of the gas engine compressors and our wider range of portable air compressors.