firepop5
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- September 3, 2007
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- floral park ny
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- 96 EB
96 5.0
Replaced my compressor and accumulator today. New orifice tube came with kit, so I wanted to change that too. Grabbed the end with a pair of needle nose pliers, twisted and pulled. Top part broke off and portion from double o-rings down stayed stuck in bottom tube of evaporator. You could have heard me curse a mile away. I wasn't in the mood to remove or replace the evaporator, so a alternate had to be found. I went through my hardware buckets and found a lag bolt long enough to reach the broken piece and fat enough for the threads to catch inside of the broken piece of orifice tube like a bolt extractor. Screwed it in just enough to bite into the plastic and pulled broken portion out.
A/C is working great now and I'm a happy man
Replaced my compressor and accumulator today. New orifice tube came with kit, so I wanted to change that too. Grabbed the end with a pair of needle nose pliers, twisted and pulled. Top part broke off and portion from double o-rings down stayed stuck in bottom tube of evaporator. You could have heard me curse a mile away. I wasn't in the mood to remove or replace the evaporator, so a alternate had to be found. I went through my hardware buckets and found a lag bolt long enough to reach the broken piece and fat enough for the threads to catch inside of the broken piece of orifice tube like a bolt extractor. Screwed it in just enough to bite into the plastic and pulled broken portion out.
A/C is working great now and I'm a happy man