Driving home form the inlaws tonight, the A/C compressor started making a grinding sound. It quits when I turn the air off. I'm hoping it's just the clutch and not the entire compressor.
Question is: Is the clutch easy to replace? Any special tools needed?
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Re: A/C compreesor clutch
http://forums.s-10crewcab.net/viewtopic ... sor+clutch
Lots of good info in that thread.
If you read it I asked the same thing becuase mine was slipping at high RPMs. In my case I decided to leave it be till it dies, if it does. But from what I was told in the end it was better to replace the compressor.
Lots of good info in that thread.
If you read it I asked the same thing becuase mine was slipping at high RPMs. In my case I decided to leave it be till it dies, if it does. But from what I was told in the end it was better to replace the compressor.
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After reading the thread, I decided to go ahead, suck it up, sell the firstborn and replace the whole compressor.
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DONE!
Took my father in law and I about 2 hours to do it. He had the vacum pump and had a friend who had a tank for the freon. blowing nice and cold air now.
Really was not that bad of a job. 1 more repair learned.
Took my father in law and I about 2 hours to do it. He had the vacum pump and had a friend who had a tank for the freon. blowing nice and cold air now.
Really was not that bad of a job. 1 more repair learned.
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