Date:         Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:04:10 +0000
Reply-To:     kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Kenneth Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Air Conditioning Question (NOT conversion related)
Comments: To: TJ Hemrick <x53gunner@GMAIL.COM>

I just had the two long lines under the van made up at a local NAPA that does AC lines.  Usually a hydraulic shop that does hydraulic lines for tractors and industrial supply will also make up AC lines.  Let your fingers do the walking and call around.  Brand new lines would be the way to go.  That way you have all new ends and barrier hoses to boot!  Should run $75 per hose or less.  The only wierd end I had was the one at the compressor on the later models.  It looks like a tube with a big washer welded on it.  No one has this end, but they can crimp a compression fitting on your line and then splice this end on for you.  So you are reusing this particular end but it never has the problem of stripping that a threaded end does.

Hope this helps,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com


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From: TJ Hemrick <x53gunner@GMAIL.COM>

> OK all you A/C experts, here's your chance to show your stuff. The PO on my
> Wolfie jacked up the threads on the condenser something fierce as I almost
> killed myself undoing the fittings. Long story short, I pinched a good
> condenser from my Synco (currently on jacks) and set about to putting it in.
> (BTW, I was changing the radiator so the condenser had to be removed and
> replaced so I had to flush it for it's upcoming conversion--That's another
> message...) Anyhow, no matter how well I've picked and scraped the inside
> of the steel connectors(to get out any galled up aluminum from the male
> portion on the condenser) on the lines, the small one keeps messing up the
> threads on the replacement condenser. Question of the day is: Those A/C
> connectors are standard industry sizes--Yes???? Or...did Hans & Franz
> decide to make those metric also??? If the former I can get a shop to put
> new ends on. If not--Well, I could pinch the lines out of the Synco but I
> REALLY don't want to spend the day under that beast pulling those
> #$%@$%lines out...Ya know what I mean?
>
> Thanks
>
> TJ