Rear AC lines, installing them with engine in car??
05-29-2011, 12:46 PM
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(And good luck. Hope it works.)
05-30-2011, 03:01 PM
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Well folks, Hillbilly Greg is living up to the name on this repair.
I berate others when they do this kind of repair, so I guess it is my turn in the barrel this time.
I just could not figure out how to do this any other way with what we had to work with in the time we had to get it done.
So sit back and laugh at Greg's backyard "Repair" and I use that in the sense lightly, but I think it will work.
The problem is that you can not get the suction line (low pressure) line in the car with the motor installed, at least I could not, got the high pressure one in, but the low side is just not going to go.
After trying to find some one in Atlanta that could do a proper union on this pipe, and coming up empty handed here is what I ended up doing.
First we cut the pipe at a spot that would make it easy to install.
This is the part that goes along the fender well.
We used a tubing cutter to cut it with.
(PS these are the pipes I had for installing my rear AC in my 87 as it did not come with rear AC, they came out of my 89 parts car.)
With them cut the pipes will go in with out much fuss, but now we had to find something, some way to join them again.
Here is what we came up with after finding nothing at Home Depot. (I hate it when folks put pluming parts on cars)
We found that the pipe from the old secondary air injection system was almost the right size to slip into the low side pipe, just slightly loose.
So we cut the proper length of pipe for it to make our redneck repair.
With the pipe cut I made a bunch of slight "Cuts" with the tubing cutter to give the JB weld a good grip and to also slightly swell the pipe due to the ridges.
Then I did a home made knurling job on the insert using two files, by "Slapping" the insert with one file while laying on another, you have to slap it pretty hard, but not enough to break the files. (I also do this to the slides on the tops of custom 1911's to make them non reflective)
This also swells the insert and gives a really good surface to bond the epoxy.
I put a good coating of JB weld, the hack mechanics choice on the inside and out side of the pipes and put it together, it all seemed to fit nicely, time will tell if it will hold or not, but I have high hopes that it will.
When I do mine I mine I will do it better because we will have more time.
I will get Greg Brown to make up some of his Kevlar hoses and install a union.
But I think this will get Tom going.
feel free to say what a chitty job we did, but it was all we could figure out.
I berate others when they do this kind of repair, so I guess it is my turn in the barrel this time.
I just could not figure out how to do this any other way with what we had to work with in the time we had to get it done.
So sit back and laugh at Greg's backyard "Repair" and I use that in the sense lightly, but I think it will work.
The problem is that you can not get the suction line (low pressure) line in the car with the motor installed, at least I could not, got the high pressure one in, but the low side is just not going to go.
After trying to find some one in Atlanta that could do a proper union on this pipe, and coming up empty handed here is what I ended up doing.
First we cut the pipe at a spot that would make it easy to install.
This is the part that goes along the fender well.
We used a tubing cutter to cut it with.
(PS these are the pipes I had for installing my rear AC in my 87 as it did not come with rear AC, they came out of my 89 parts car.)
With them cut the pipes will go in with out much fuss, but now we had to find something, some way to join them again.
Here is what we came up with after finding nothing at Home Depot. (I hate it when folks put pluming parts on cars)
We found that the pipe from the old secondary air injection system was almost the right size to slip into the low side pipe, just slightly loose.
So we cut the proper length of pipe for it to make our redneck repair.
With the pipe cut I made a bunch of slight "Cuts" with the tubing cutter to give the JB weld a good grip and to also slightly swell the pipe due to the ridges.
Then I did a home made knurling job on the insert using two files, by "Slapping" the insert with one file while laying on another, you have to slap it pretty hard, but not enough to break the files. (I also do this to the slides on the tops of custom 1911's to make them non reflective)
This also swells the insert and gives a really good surface to bond the epoxy.
I put a good coating of JB weld, the hack mechanics choice on the inside and out side of the pipes and put it together, it all seemed to fit nicely, time will tell if it will hold or not, but I have high hopes that it will.
When I do mine I mine I will do it better because we will have more time.
I will get Greg Brown to make up some of his Kevlar hoses and install a union.
But I think this will get Tom going.
feel free to say what a chitty job we did, but it was all we could figure out.
05-30-2011, 05:40 PM
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That should work, but in case it doesn't - look into
maybe using something like this as long as the tubing o.d. is a standard metric size. They should
be avail as a coupler:
http://www.williamsfluidair.com/prod...-fittings-voss
brand is "voss" any good counterman at a hydraulic
supply should be able to source them
maybe using something like this as long as the tubing o.d. is a standard metric size. They should
be avail as a coupler:
http://www.williamsfluidair.com/prod...-fittings-voss
brand is "voss" any good counterman at a hydraulic
supply should be able to source them
05-30-2011, 08:06 PM
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That should work, but in case it doesn't - look into
maybe using something like this as long as the tubing o.d. is a standard metric size. They should
be avail as a coupler:
http://www.williamsfluidair.com/prod...-fittings-voss
brand is "voss" any good counterman at a hydraulic
supply should be able to source them
maybe using something like this as long as the tubing o.d. is a standard metric size. They should
be avail as a coupler:
http://www.williamsfluidair.com/prod...-fittings-voss
brand is "voss" any good counterman at a hydraulic
supply should be able to source them
I would not trust a compression fitting to hold freon in.
