The New Project: Part Deux!

[njsteve]

Still no title or registration. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] UGH!

So I am still keeping busy with the car. Through the fellow members of my wonderful support group here and at the Performance Years forum, I have managed to pick up all the A/C parts needed for the car. So I spent the day cleaning and installing everything. I had to pull the front valance and the radiator to get the existing wrong condensor out. It's a shame since it looks brand new but has the wrong upper hose fitting that is pointing downward in front of the condensor. I have no idea what application it is supposed to be for?

I'm glad I pulled the radiator as it had several areas where I could see it had been seaping. Another sad story since it was a relatively new CU477 four core brass/copper unit with no miles on it. Went bad from sitting all those years, I guess. I ordered a new CU477 that should be here next week. I also ripped out all the fan wiring as well as the crazy electric fan that was installed behind the radiator.

Here's an original late 1971 condensor with the correct ends for the rubber A/C pressure lines. This was the before shot, prior to removing the brackets, combing out all the fins, repainting it and installing nicer brackets...

[njsteve]

And here is the semi-final result. I installed an old receiver/dryer so as not to ruin the new Delco unit I purchased. Once you open the block offs on a new receiver/dryer you have 15 minutes to get it installed and evacuated or the desicant material soaks up all the moisture and is ruined. So I will vacuum test the system in a week or two to see if it holds a vacuum and then replace the R/D and fill up the system with freon.

[njsteve]

And while I had everything half-way apart I pulled out the original, fried engine compartment harness and installed the new American Autowire harness. (FYI, you can buy the harnesses at Rockauto.com at a hulluva discount. American Autowire lists the harness for $185. Rockauto had it for $120, and it shipped directly from American Autowire here in NJ).

I pulled the driver's side inner fender and that cut out about 4 hours of knucklegouging and blood donations by giving me direct access to the bulkhead area under the booster, where the harness bolts in. You do not want to wrestle with all the power brake lines and booster trying to find the bulkhead by feel. Just no fun. (Something I found out when replacing the defective harness in the 72 T/A).

The hardest part was getting the starter back in while holding it up with one hand, attaching the wires to it with the other hand, tightening the wires with a 1/4&quot; drive ratchet with another hand and keeping it from falling on my head with my other, other hand. And then noticing I forgot the shim. And then the phone sitting on the trunk lid of the Charger rang.... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Here is what taking the inner fender allows you to access the bulkhead area directly. Imagine trying to get that central reatining bolt out of the bulkhead terminal by feel. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Here is the condensor that I removed from the car. Still had the caps on the fitting ends. If anyone can identify it, they can have it!





And the crazy electric fan and the resulting fixed blade fan that it required when it took up too much room behind the radiator. Can anyone use this electric fan setup?

[njsteve]

And the newly repainted, late 1971 fan that one of my Pontiac friends at Perf Years sent me. All ready to go back in once the new radiator arrives.

[napa68]

SCORE!

[njsteve]

LOL. I ran the part number on the four bladed fan that was in the car: 3462185.

It comes back as: &quot;Four Bladed Cooling fan 6 cyl &amp; Hemi SS&quot;

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[olredalert]

----No matter how hard you try you just cant escape your Mopar roots,,,Huh Steve!!!.....Bill S

[njsteve]

I figured it had to some type of obscure rare part given that lucky horseshoe that is still securely lodged you-know-where.

I initially thought it was going to be one of those bazillion dollar ZL1 or L89 fan blades. So Iguess I will have to settle for a 1968 Super Stock Hemi Dart/Barracuda fan blade.