removing a/c core under dash

[Polara_500]

Heh, but that's not the challenging way to do it. (Otherwise known as my way.) The car in my gallery didn't come w/AC but I wanted it. Stumbled across an elderly neighbor with a 65 Custom 880 that had non-functioning AC and he only drove his car 1 mile to work, they used hers the rest of the time. He told me "Leave me working heat and defrost and you can have the rest" so I took him up on it. The 65 was one of the two cars we had at the time, so in one weekend I yanked my setup then his and stuffed mine into his car - took all the AC specific pieces and left him a working setup. Heck, he wouldn't even let me patch the holes in the dash when I was done. I will admit it took a good bit longer to put the AC stuff in my car, there's a whole lot of holes to cut and so on - but didn't take real long to get it working properly once it was installed. That project was one of the reasons I tend to overplan my projects now. :eusa_wall:

 

[Blackmopar]

Haha Polara, thats awesome!

So in other words - if I want to split my system into a heat/defrost only - your my man? im keeping this in my back pocket!

to be continued
Sean

 

[Polara_500]

Hey, all you gotta do from where you are is get the vacuum source connected and get all the dampers working with the switch and that's what you've got. If you don't have the AC plumbed it just won't cool even though you could blow air out those vents. The only real downside is the heat control valve for an AC system is separate on the floorboards and if that goes out they're crazy expensive, near as bad as the AC version heater core. So if you get water leaks then it's spendy to fix - or in that case just remove the water lines to the heater and you've still got air moving for defrost even if it's not warmed.

 

[Blackmopar]

that makes sense Polara thank you! Sometimes I think too much about things without thinking about things too much