| AC compressor install help [message #280864] |
Sat, 27 June 2015 16:24  |
Joe Weir
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Registered: February 2013
Location: Columbia, SC
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Anyone care to share a favorite method for installing the 800 lb @!#*A6 compressor without lifting the body off the frame?
After the successful laps around the block I turned my attention to the dash ac -it was not cooling. Put the gauges on it and found the compressor not compressing. So, this week I procured a compressor locally and removed it this am. (4 Seasons rebuild, circa 1997, r134). I had a case of frosty cool anticipating a recharge anyway.
That is when the fun started.
Getting it out was easy enough, Gravity helped. However, I don't seem to have the hand strength/angle/access to lift and rotate it back the way it came out. Getting creative I tried using straps to lift it up from above, but I did not have anything to secure to. Thinking of using the front half of the engine hoist, but that seems to be overkill.
Any tips?
76 Birchaven - "Wicked Mistress" - New engine, trans, alum radiator, brakes, Sully airbags, fuel lines, seats, adult beverage center... those Coachmen guys were really thinking about us second hand owners by including that beverage center...
Columbia, SC.
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