A/C Removal Help

[phoonTy]

Since I'm really trying to make my truck a weekend cruiser instead of a daily driver, I've decided to pull the A/C to clean up the engine bay, and my blower motor didn't work for about a year (until I finally found the loose ground) so I got used to not having it.

Long story short, I have everything loosened at the firewall, the A/C box is loose etc. By loosening the rest at the radiator side, I should be able to pull everything out as one unit, correct? On the radiator side, there's just a small cooler held in by a restraining strap, correct? Anything else I need to watch for, loosen, etc. to get it out easily?

Thanks for the help! :tup:

oh, one more question, the lines running under the box, but not into the box, into the cabin are the coolent lines into the heater core correct? they run through a hole in the box and i'd rather not cut it, incase i fell like returning everything to stock and having it look untouched. :tup:

now, thanks for the help. :lol: :tup:

 

[Flyin Ryan]

Re: A/C Removal Help

Long story short, I have everything loosened at the firewall, the A/C box is loose etc. By loosening the rest at the radiator side, I should be able to pull everything out as one unit, correct?

I wasn't able to yank it all as one because the two coolent lines you mentioned that run to the heater core actually go thru a whole in that ac heater box so I had to seperate the box to get everything over those two lines and out. Maybe different for you not sure but I would say you'd have to split the box if I remember right.

On the radiator side, there's just a small cooler held in by a restraining strap, correct?

In order to get the ac condenser out I had to undo the stock trans cooler lines from the radiator and lift up the radiator enough to pull the condenser out. I didn't want to have to disconnect the oil cooler lines (driver side lines) at all so I just lifted the rad up and had someone hold it while I unbolted and yanked the condenser.

 

[TYTILIDIE]

Re: A/C Removal Help

Wierd, mine came out as one unit. I didnt have to cut anything. I will say that removing the fender makes it much easier. And yes, those are the heater core lines. You dont want to even move them.

 

[phoonTy]

Re: A/C Removal Help

I've already got the fender well out, and had started to separate the a/c box, so I'll go ahead and do that. For some reason, my radiator is pretty loose (fan shroud is off) so I'll just have my wife hold it up as I loosen things up.

Looks like I was basically there, that's good to know. :tup:

And yeah, I don't plan on messing with the heater core lines. I had to do that on my old Jimmy... not fun!

Thanks for the help!

 

[socalblue]

Re: A/C Removal Help

what I wanna know is how the hell do u drain teh radiator without it gettin all over the place, they put the drain plug in the worst possible place... :rant: