At 09:19 PM 8/19/2006 -0500, Greg Schroeder wrote:
>..... After being there for a while a lady was saying something about
>Back to the Future again to my wife and then the high pressure air
>conditioning hose decided to let go.
Greg,
Sorry to hear that! Been there done that, but not in my Bricklin.
>...So tomorrow to complete cleaning up the mess and removing the air
>compressor belt and start the search to replace the hose. As always
>another thing to work on.
For your hose look for a pneumatic shop in the phone book. We've got
several shops in the area that will make up the hoses for you. I
had the AC hose for my 84 Accord made. But check with them and see if
the have the right hose material. On my Accord, they used a thicker
newer hose material for 134a. So it was harder to reinstall as it was
a lot stiffer.
Note to everyone. I did run into the same type of problem with my
Bricklin. I had the condenser cleaned and pressure checked an then put
it in the attic for 5 yrs. When we went to put the AC system back in
the car, I was confident that the parts were fine. But I needed help
making an conversion hose to hook to the new dryer I was installing.
We (a buddy that used to own a commercial AC shop was helping me)
pressurized the system. Found at least 2 leaks in the condenser.
So I junked the original and got a new one. This ment that the hoses
needed more adapters. Finally got it all installed, and pressure
tested it with air at about 90psi. It held so we pulled a vac. on
the system and charged it. Found another leak at the evaporator. One
of the soldered nibbles was leaking. Since I had to pull the evaporator
out, (and had just had a problem with the expansion valve on my 84 Accord)
I decided to replace the expansion valve. Then we got looking at the
hoses. There were cracked, so I figured I'd quit wasting time and replace
them also. We finally got the AC system working.
continued....
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948@cox.net
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75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
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