Re: [DML] Re: A/C Trouble

[Warren Wallingford <warren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How 'bout that?  Maybe the clutch was sticking all this time.  There is 
a procedure for adjusting the air gap, [and removal of the clutch], in 
the Workshop Manual.  Take the clutch assembly off the compressor shaft 
and see if the splines or the clutch plate itself are boogered up. 
Reset the gap and put the belt back on.  You won't have to purge the 
system of R12 to do this.
Warren at DMC



Videobob Moseley wrote:
> Update....
> Yesterday while talking to Warren on the phone I fired up the car with the 
> A/C on MAX.
> I let it idle for about 1/2 hour and the car ran cool as a cucumber and the 
> air was ice cold.
> So I decided to run down to the post office, everything was fine.
> When I re-started the car....no cold air?
> ...as I got home the fuse for the AC blew.
> The wire to the AC was hot as fire and it melted the block.
> 
> I re-wired the fuse with an external inline fuse link and tried it again.
> I cranked up the car again and had a look....
> the clutch was trying to move, a little.
> I used a pole to tap it and give it a shove and it locked and started
> spinning and working.
> On close inspection I could see metal shavings around the inside
> of the clutch.
> So it seems the problem is the clutch, or the electronic mechanism
> that activates the clutch.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> - VB

>>From: "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [DML] Re: A/C Trouble
>>Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:00:13 -0000
>>
>>Your A/C symptoms can be caused by one of the following:
>>Overcharge and the high limit is shutting you down
>>Undercharge and the low limit is shutting you down
>>Moisture in the system and it freezes shutting you down
>>
> 
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