Re: No A/C

[Night Shadow <soltwede@ucsub.colorado.edu>]

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Brubaker, John wrote:

> I really want to take out the a/c in my 80 Scirocco and I have a few 
> questions.  I went to the junkyard this weekend and collected all the 

Just ripped the a/c from my 80, so lemme see if I can help!

>  Neither one of these jobs was very easy.  Enough about the first, I 
> have some questions about removing the a/c from my own car.
> 1)	It seems like I have two radiators, will I need both of these once 
> I get rid of the a/c?

NO! One is the condesor for the a/c, remove the one that has the a/c hoses
going to it.

> 2)	There are two hose coming from the a/c, one to the radiator, one 
> goes into the cabin of the car, do I need to replace these hoses as a 
> complete unit?  They don't seem like I can just unattach them from the 
> a/c then attach them to the radiator.

Hmmm, I had 2 a/c lines that went into the firewall on the passenger side,
I removed those, and the little canistor attatched to those lines too,
ended uup breaking the piece that the a/c line attatched to under the
dash...

> 3)	Are there any other little things I need to know about?

Yeah, removing the underdash components was a pain, you see the a/c has
alot of parts under the dash in that big black housing, I have a donor 79
heater/blower/housing that is going in, it's about HALF the size of the
a/c one...tip one, removing the dash is helpful, but messy, there are two
bolts holding the housing to the firewall, look for those, don't do like I
did and try and remove all those little clips that hold the two pieces of
the housing together....also, I'm switching over to manual controlled
vents, instead of the vacuum controlled ones...might be good idea to hunt
junk yard for non-ac model and remove appropriate parts.....hope this
helps john!

Eric

> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 80 Scirocco S
> 
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