removing air con

[off2harrys]

was wondering if its easy enough to remove the air con even for a retard like myself,or should it be left to the pros.anyone wanna write up a detailed how to? ;D

[Guest]

Need to get system de-gassed first.

Don't just let the gas go, it's illegal and you can get refridgerant burns

Once degassed just unbolt and remove all the components

[off2harrys]

damn the cars broken so guess ill have to leave that until i get all the parts i want,lucky i didnt just go attack it with a ratchet and hammer then aye

[Ryan]

WHen I stripped my engine down I didnt realise you weren't supposed to release it all..hardly anything came out tho and didn't get burns of any sort all when A-OK..

[Guest]

Because your system had no gas in it, which means you are very lucky

The average system has around 600grams of refrigerant under pressure ( will take 5-10min to relaease via lossening a fitting)

[Joker]

yup - about as lucky as removing an Airbag, and when they say it burns - its like liquid nitrogen burns/frostbite because of the escaping gas is below freezing

[nt_a_foz]

hmmmm haha yeah weve just unscrewed before well actually mates dad did needless say we left the garage very quickly and didnt come back for some time..

I cracked mine but had no gas at all in it...

Easy enough to remove once degassed though man.

Unbolt hte pump, unbolt air con radiator (in front of radiator) and yeah thats about it

[DRFVDR]

and if u really keen u can take the evaporator out from in the car, I did this in my old '84 RX probably scrapped 25 KGs of alloy

[off2harrys]

umm whats the evaporator haha i thought thats what the radiator thing was

[Guest]

Evaporator is the unit inside the car

Condensor is the radiator looking part that sits infront of your engine coolant radiator

[off2harrys]

wheres that live?so does it total 25kg roughly in total of everything?dam i cant wait to get my car going,its gonna feel like the fastest thing in the world compared to my 1.3 familia which must be broken cause takes prob 10sec to get to 50km (no sh#t)

[Guest boostcut]

what about the reciever dryer? haha everyone forgot about the poor little guy.. and the tx valve..

[Guest]

Oh dont forget the pipes, a/c fan and relays etc

[Stoffa]

 Ichi Ban said:

Evaporator is the unit inside the car

How much drama would the evaporator be to pull out of my V5?

I'll be in there in the weekend trying to remove my brake booster for an engine bay respray

[Old Skool Subbie]

 DRFVDR said:

and if u really keen u can take the evaporator out from in the car, I did this in my old '84 RX probably scrapped 25 KGs of alloy

Remember Darren did take that off his RX. Being that its a older system so probley is heaver. I think also they have some beefy steel brackets holding air con pump on?

I think my old Vortexs air con pump was heaver than my Svxs one.

[DRFVDR]

hhhhe oh yeah it made the modern ones look like it was a baby,Hell it make the one on my current '87 RX look svelte

[off2harrys]

10kg dam that sux,oh well its gotta go for the flipped manifold anyway

[Guest Oscar]

 Ichi Ban said:

Need to get system de-gassed first.

Don't just let the gas go, it's illegal and you can get refridgerant burns

Once degassed just unbolt and remove all the components

Lol. That is why I used really long pliers on the metal lines.

[off2harrys]

sorry to drag this back from the dead,but is this all the parts (minus the evaporator ill get that another day)

[driftrex]

looks about right.

[madmike]

 off2harrys said:

sorry to drag this back from the dead,but is this all the parts (minus the evaporator ill get that another day)

Wack it all on trade me oww..LOL

[off2harrys]

yea should be able to get 50c for all that.dont say you have to pull the whole dash out to get to the evaporator?

[Guest]

 loren']

[quote name='off2harrys said:

yea should be able to get 50c for all that.dont say you have to pull the whole dash out to get to the evaporator?

/quote]

not the dash. glove box probably. you may not want to bother though, because if

I remember correctly, there's only one fan for the whole heater/aircon system,

and it's part of the unit with the evaporator in it. you'd be able to put it back together

without the evap, but the whole process of getting the unit out and putting back in

will be quite a bit of work for little gain.

Correct, i found this out once i had pulled it all out, and then had to put it all back in for the heater... i wasn't amused lol

[Stoffa]

it's not that hard, there's a little metal bracket covering a nut/bolt right in the top left hand corner of the unit, I just unbolted the bracket for better access. Now i've finally got those annoying leaves out of my heater as well

[nt_a_foz]

 Stoffa said:

annoying leaves out of my heater as well

lol how do leaves get in your heater???