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It's official. Murphy and his infamous law was the previous owner of my 1992 Imperial. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
Spent the afternoon touching up chipped paint on the car, and afterward decided I needed a Coke after working out in the sun. Thought the AC, while cooling pretty well, wasn't cooling as well as it should on the trip to the store. So, when I got home I popped the hood and went to inspect the sight glass. Nope, no bubbles. Plenty of grinding bearing noise from the AC compressor pulley, though.
Went and shut off the ATC while the car was still running. The noise eased up dramatically, but did not go away. Unplugged the AC clutch and engaged the AC again, and got a healthy 14V at the connector.
So, this car is now making me replace the AC clutch. I have no tools for this. What I'm wondering is, will the homemade clutch puller detailed on the main site for the C171 work for the 6C17 too? I'm already in bad shape for money - this needs to be kept as cheap as possible, and I ain't giving up my AC. Well, not for long anyway. I'm going to pull the clutch relay until I can get this fixed. It's going to suck not having AC when I know the system has a good R-12 charge in there, but not much else I can do.
That's only just the most recent problem. The car still needs struts and a hub/bearing assembly on the left front wheel. Struts are getting put off again. Not sure how long I can put off the hub/bearing assembly, but it's only making noise at low speed for now. I also need to rebuild the solenoid pack and see if that saves me from having to rebuild the tranny.
Why couldn't this car wait until fall to mess with the AC clutch? Some days I wonder about this thing. Just wait, I'll replace the clutch and it'll leak out all the R-12 just to spite me.
Spent the afternoon touching up chipped paint on the car, and afterward decided I needed a Coke after working out in the sun. Thought the AC, while cooling pretty well, wasn't cooling as well as it should on the trip to the store. So, when I got home I popped the hood and went to inspect the sight glass. Nope, no bubbles. Plenty of grinding bearing noise from the AC compressor pulley, though.
Went and shut off the ATC while the car was still running. The noise eased up dramatically, but did not go away. Unplugged the AC clutch and engaged the AC again, and got a healthy 14V at the connector.
So, this car is now making me replace the AC clutch. I have no tools for this. What I'm wondering is, will the homemade clutch puller detailed on the main site for the C171 work for the 6C17 too? I'm already in bad shape for money - this needs to be kept as cheap as possible, and I ain't giving up my AC. Well, not for long anyway. I'm going to pull the clutch relay until I can get this fixed. It's going to suck not having AC when I know the system has a good R-12 charge in there, but not much else I can do.
That's only just the most recent problem. The car still needs struts and a hub/bearing assembly on the left front wheel. Struts are getting put off again. Not sure how long I can put off the hub/bearing assembly, but it's only making noise at low speed for now. I also need to rebuild the solenoid pack and see if that saves me from having to rebuild the tranny.
Why couldn't this car wait until fall to mess with the AC clutch? Some days I wonder about this thing. Just wait, I'll replace the clutch and it'll leak out all the R-12 just to spite me.