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Hey Mike...I am currently working in Shreveport, LA and will be here for about another year. #4106 is here, but will be bringing her home for winter storage soon. If there is anything going on during Thanksgiving week or around Christmas I would like to meet some of you guys...otherwise it is going to likely be this time next year before I get to see any of you. Frowner But gotta pay for #4106!!
If the system works now, it can be improved a bit by closing the isolation valves on your stone-age York compressor, then carefully unscrewing the smaller line connected to the brass evaporator valve under the passenger side dash. Inside the valve port is a tiny conical debris screen that is usually plugged solid with debris. No flow = no cooling. Soak the screen in carb cleaner or something to dissolve old rubber and carefully brush the rest off. Reassemble, reopen the compressor valves and with less than a can of freon to replace that lost, it should cool better.
Reworking any further will mean cleaning out the system, replacing the dryer, the evaporator valve with one specifically for r-134a, all the hoses for barrier-style o-ringed hoses, and the compressor with a Sankyo rotary. Sankyo sells an adapter bracket that bolts to the Pantera's York bracket, and the stock clutch wire plugs in with no alterations.
I converted 1362 to 134a. The key points are as Jack says.. remove the cone strainer, get a dual crossflow condensor from ackits.com. I bought my rotary style sandeen from Mario at Pantera east with bracket. The hoses and dryer from NAPA. If I had to do it again.. I would locate the condenser up front. The evaporator and expantion valve are stock! The 134a works great.
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