I finally got some time to work on this thing yesterday after getting all of the parts.

1. Accumulator installed, filled w/4 oz. oil, green o-rings.
a. new low pressure switch, green o-rings
b. transferred water screen.
2. Evaporator installed, filled w/3 oz. oil, green o-rings.
3. Evaporator housing almost all installed.

Of course now I have a couple bolts that I can't remember where they go. Hopefully my mind will remember today. I have everything seperated in bags by part, but these ones have me .

At the great suggestion of SunCR I picked up a roll of ribbon sealer. This stuff works perfect for the case seal and packing around the refrigerant lines. You can see it in use here, it is the black perfectly shaped goop on the 3 sides of the housing.


I also simple green'd this housing half and the one in the car as far as I could reach. 20 years of grimey build up was certainly not helping the air quality in the car. There was a couple small signs of mold forming as well.



Old versus new. Notice that the new evaporator has the pressure switch fitting 180* of the original one. Thankfully it doesn't look like it'll be an issue, but adjusting the screw in it will be tougher.





The new evaporator seal required cutting about 1/2" of material to make it fit squarely. Nice job whoever glued this thing together, geez.


That 3M Trim adhesive worked perfect here. I sprayed the seal and the sides of the evaporator, waited 15 seconds and slapped them together.


You can see the water screen on the new evap here. It is glued to the original with 2 beads of glue on the outter edges of the evaporator. I used RTV Silicon this time around. Ran a bead down each long side, slapped the screen on, and flipped the thing over to lay on it for a couple hours. Worked perfect.

 

Brian, could you come down and do mine?

 

Sure! I actually took that black goop to the store and everyone looked at me like I was crazy looking for it. The ribbon sealer is definitely the way to go.

 

Nice job! Should be better than the factory when done.

 

I hope so! I'm just sick of not being able to drive the car. I decided to repaint the heater valve shutoff pipes and a few other things they were out of the car. They were a mess.

 

Looks good. Taking your time and doing it right the first time is key, as I can tell.

 

Ok, this is the one friggen piece I don't remember taking off. Anyone?

Part 25.


Part 25.

 

I haven't gotten that far into it yet, but I'd bet you have a later core, because my new one looks just like yours (switch towards the engine). What store did you get the ribbon sealer at?

 

Autozone. It was on the bottom shelf underneath all of the RTV and Silicon tubes in a white box.

 

Thanks man. Hope I have as much luck putting mine back together.

 

The bracket pictured is for one of the two wire loam hold downs. One is behind the wheel well cover to the right of the window washer fluid and the other is to the left of the washer fluid.