Air Conditioning
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Air Conditioning
I have a 1970 350 Cutlass s holiday coupe that had or has A/C but it doesn't have the compressor and I am wondering how to rig that up I was also wondering if the alternator is supposed to go on the driver side or the passenger side because I got the car and it was on the passenger side but I have a friend that says it is supposed to be on the driver side. Who is right
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AC cars have the alternator on the drivers side.
Non-AC cars have the alternator on the passengers side.
Below is what the AC system looks like under the hood.
edit:
I found this image that shows a different view. Ignore the text; the pic was from a how-to for heater core R&R.
Non-AC cars have the alternator on the passengers side.
Below is what the AC system looks like under the hood.
edit:
I found this image that shows a different view. Ignore the text; the pic was from a how-to for heater core R&R.
Last edited by Fun71; February 19th, 2018 at 04:24 PM.
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Now here I thought a guy whose name is Fedders would know all there is to know about air conditioning.
http://www.fedders.com/collection/climate_control.html
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we had a Fedders brand window air conditioner in our house!
http://www.fedders.com/collection/climate_control.html
When I was a kid in the 1960s, we had a Fedders brand window air conditioner in our house!
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Heat-only simply uses hot engine coolant circulated through a heater core (a small radiator) in the HVAC box under the dash.
A/C has TWO separate systems - a similar heater that circulates hot coolant and a SEPARATE system that circulates freon through an evaporator core (also a small radiator). The two fluid systems (freon and engine coolant) are completely separate. A flapper door inside the HVAC box (the door is called a temperature blend door) regulates how much hot air from the heater core and cold air from the evaporator reach you inside the passenger compartment.
Get a Chassis Service Manual for your car and read Chapter 1.
If you are talking about the diagram in post #4 above, that is ONLY the A/C part of the system (the freon loop). It does not show the heater part of the system. If you only have a heater, NOTHING in that diagram is installed on your car. If you are thinking this is like a heat pump, it is not. You don't get both heat and cold from the same system. It's like having a hot water radiator in your house for heat and a window air conditioner for cooling.
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