jspearin

I'm going through the process of putting the A/C system back together on my 86 N/A and since the system has been open for a while I am replacing the dryer. When I removed the old dryer however, I realized that whoever put the dryer on previously badly cross threaded the fitting on the hose that comes from the evaporator and attempted to just threadlock the fitting on. With the hose fitting so badly cross threaded now though I am not able to connect it to the new dryer.

I've tried cleaning out the threads with a chaser but the fitting is pretty far gone. I would love to not have to replace the entire hose as it travels back along the firewall and into the passenger compartment where it connects to the evaporator so my question is, can I have just the threaded fitting cut off and replaced? Would any automotive shop that does A/C work be able to do something like this or will I need to find a specialist?

Any help or ideas would be great, thanks.

griffiths

Assuming that is the drier outlet to the expansion valve inlet line, if a local shop has a 'crimper', they can carefully cut the ferrule (steel shell with the damaged fitting crimped on the rubber section of hose) with a dremel (do not cut in so deep you cut the hose)
on two sides, peel the ferrule back and it breaks off, put in a new #6 fitting and crimp the new ferrule. Otherwise, you could remove line and bring it to a 'hose' shop. We have done many of these repairs in the past. Griff