Automotive Air Conditioning Information Forum

partial checklist:
1) In USA heavy trucks with Vee belt use Dayco 17/32 top width belt
2) never use back side tension pulley w/ single Vee belt
3) Severe start up at higher rpm liquid slugging can cause belt failure
4) long belt spans w/o idler pulley allow excessive belt bounce
5) Tension pulley ...

Tim please forward to Marcia
Hope you were able to contact Milt Jones sons in Harlingen TX (Jones Auto Supply). Inventors who helped Mark IV That I worked for were Anderson, Oleson, and Pecorni (from tecumseh) and Hazzard. Another (outside JEMCO) inventor I worked for was Bob Bandeen (who wrote ...

Marcia.
What is your dad's name? I helped on several patents at JEMCO.
hotrodac

Rubber covered metal gaskets seal more reliably with lube instead of dry. Refrigerant mineral oil also works good.
04 Burb w/4.3 =195 hp. pushing 4400 lbs. w/ A/C?
hotrodac (located halfway between Duncanville and Princeton)

T Bird, You could probably help teach the course. but this MACS certificate or ASE are fun and would look good.
Training is separate from trade show. Was with about 10 other aftermarket installers/repairmen and OEM reps at launch to debug 3 day proposed training. Next MACS made training videos and ...

We all have a AC trial and error learning curve. At 18 years old, my first AC installation in my Ford used scrap freebe components but I couldn"t charge it until I found the rubber plug I left inside the condenser.
Should have good hunting in Kimberly, NW Australia and you have the cold offroad ...

Was Ford guy with horizontal condenser under rumble seat, Jimmy Pell on your tour?

a/c

The 61 Catalina that I was air conditioning had a 7.25" C/s pulley on a noninterference engine, so I was using it as an example of how to calculate the inputs so that the max comp rpm rating is not exceeded.
My 2 cents for specifically for T bird:
Since you are fabbing pulleys (as I have given ...

The Sanden cut out was only for wide open throttle clutch cut out for acceleration enhancement.
I rigged a WOT switch on my 59 Impala (when I was a kid w/ MARK IV building ACs for my cars out of trash cans) using a microswitch and distributor advance pneumatic diaphragm solenoid on a mounting plate ...