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Perhaps I am a bit bored, or maybe just like to tinker, but I am interested in removing as much of the non-functioning air conditioning hardware in my car as possible (all except evaporator–I’m not that bored). The system is completely dead and discharged, and I know what and where to remove as far as fasteners and such. My main concern is what to do about the high and low pressure inputs for the evaporator on the firewall. Will anything be adversely affected by disconnecting the lines and leaving the connectors open?
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[quote=”BeefyPeeg” post=134516]Perhaps I am a bit bored, or maybe just like to tinker, but I am interested in removing as much of the non-functioning air conditioning hardware in my car as possible (all except evaporator–I’m not that bored). The system is completely dead and discharged, and I know what and where to remove as far as fasteners and such. My main concern is what to do about the high and low pressure inputs for the evaporator on the firewall. Will anything be adversely affected by disconnecting the lines and leaving the connectors open?[/quote]
Just Tye rap them out of the way they are pressure switches which won’t matter without
the system. Nothing should be affected.By “ty rap” do you mean zip tie? The connectors I’m talking about are the two going directly into the firewall.
[quote=”BeefyPeeg” post=134523]By “ty rap” do you mean zip tie? The connectors I’m talking about are the two going directly into the firewall.[/quote]
My bad misunderstood the terminology. tye rap = zip tye 🙂 The high and low piping can be removed
with out consequence. To make the job nice You could remove the lines at the evap with a disconnect
tool and cut the pipe with a tubing cutter and then reconnect the lines with just a stub sticking out. I
would cap the lines with with some type of cap and tape it with electrical tape to keep the evap sealed.If you ever wanted to reuse the evaporator at a later date I would keep it connected to keep dirt out. But if you are not going to use it again and want to clean up the engine compartment there is no reason that you can not disconnect the line to the evap. The high side and low side line should connect on the engine side of the fire wall. There is no need to seal the holes because it is a closed system, the evaporator is just a low side radiator. Just remember if you do not keep foreign mater getting in the evap it will have to be replace to get AC on the car. Can you remove the compressor or is it needed to run the drive belt?
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