Sacrilidge - aircon on a series!

[greenmeanie]

Well my wife got the Audi allroad for her appeasement. It is a good versatile vehicle for a modern car. It's a great machine for the 4 hour haul up the twisties to the mountains for boarding.

Me, I'm up to three now.:
101 I don't know why but I love this machine. It'll never leave but then again if I don't stop tearing it to pieces and rebuilding it it may never run again either.
'71IIA 88 This is my general runabout do everything truck. It keeps taking abuse and just purrs along.
'67IIA NADA 109 SW. Delivered today. She has a Chevy 292 and smells of cat pee or something inside as she has sat idle for so long. I've got a few weeks to spend getting to know her before starting to make some mods. This will be the family truck.

Now I need something that floats for my next truck.

Cheers
Gregor

[JimCT]

RR Classic

Buy her a RR classic....very much a LR and all the comforts of home, and I guarentee it will surprise you off road, and they are cheap these days.

[thixon]

yeah its called the fair hobbies act....invented and adopted without discussion everywhere.

Huh? I can't tell if you're making fun of me, or agreeing with me.

[PH4]

Trying to find thread where someone posted photo of airconditioning unit installed under seat. anyone remember that thread? In addition, what about mounting a airconditioning unit in a center seat tuffy box?

[greenmeanie]

Search is your friend:

http://www.roversnorth.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3844

As the man says finding a condensor big enough is the real art of the game. I've got a 14X25 one but I'm extensively modifying the radiator panel already and will probably have to shorten the headlight buckets too.

A Sanden 508 compressor will also suck about 5hp form your engine and a 709 about 7hp.

Cheers
Gregor

[EASTTNROVER]

A/C??? WHAT A DREAM...

I can't even keep the rain or snow out when i'm drivin, can't imagine keeping the A/C in!

[onecross]

I have always wanted to put this unit behind a tuffy box in the front middle seat of my 1960 series II SW 5 door

http://www.rdac.com/Pages/product_pages/units_pages/6830_unit.html

what do yall think?

[yank]

onecross
Is that box all you need? That looks way to easy.

[greenmeanie]

I'm almost definite you'll still need a condensor, compressor and drier. That looks like the eveporator/air handler only. After all, the heat has to go somewhere external to the cabin.

Cheers
Gregor

[PH4]

If that would work, I believe it would be a no brainer.

I just received my rebuilt 2.25 with 9.1 head and 2.5 cam. I hope I see a difference in performance. At least enough to maintain 65mph and push a airconditioner. I wear a suit to work most days and use my 109 sw as my daily driver so I really need the aircon in South Carolina. If not for suits then would not worry about it. Had a little bit of buyers remorse on the 2.25 when looking at the Robert Davis conversion on line but we will see.

[greenmeanie]

I'll have a Scotty's adapter available soon if you fancy something with more poke. I don't think the old series box is going to be able to keep up with my 292.

[thixon]

I'm almost definite you'll still need a condensor, compressor and drier. That looks like the eveporator/air handler only. After all, the heat has to go somewhere external to the cabin.

Cheers
Gregor

X2.

[adkrover]

PH4 - The condensor I installed required NO modifications to the radiator mount or light buckets other than drilling 2 holes in the LH drivers side cowl to run the hoses. It was a tight squeeze but it did go in just fine. Now that I have a few more miles on the truck I would say that it does a very good job of keeping the truck liveable but it's not the same as having it blow directly in your face. I ran 4 ducts. Two to the front footwell and 2 to the rear footwell. My daughter loves it in the back because it blows from the seat box up to her. For the front passengers, it blows forward and up. Basically at the back of the knees. It does blow 40+ degree air at the vent so it's nice and cold but sometimes it makes the legs cold. If you could find a way to route the front hoses up around the gearbox or as someone else suggested into the center console Tuffy box, so they blow at your chest, that might be an improvement. Otherwise, I still think it's a great improvement. Also, you may not care in AZ but in NY, it can also give the rear seats, HEAT!

Not sure about your engine power but I have the Robert Davis 2.5 and it has more than enough power to run a loaded truck and AC so if you new engine has any kind of power it should be fine. The Sanden compressor draws very little on the engine.

Let me know if you need help sourcing parts or with photos.

Sorry for the late reply, I've been out of the loop the last few days.

[greenmeanie]

Sounds good adkrover,
I'm only going with the bigger condensor because I'm already modifying the cowl behinhd the radiator panel to fit a radiator properly. I think I'm going to go with two Hot Rod Air 50-0005. I'll copy your mount for one using the concole as my educt and the other will go in place of the OEM heater. That one will feed air to the firewall though the existing air ducts and I'm contemplating running the other two to either feed air to the footwells or to blow air straight at the driver/passenger. I'm still figuring out that one though and will have to wait until the bulkhead returns from acid dip to design the routing.

I like the idea of having heat as well as it will be my ski truck too. We do get snow in AZ you know.

Cheers
Gregor.

[adkrover]

Green,

I didn't try for the front mount because my PO had installed a new Mt Mansfield heater from RN that supplies PLENTY, did I say PLENTY of heat for the front passengers and defroster. It just didn't make sense for me to rip out that fabulous heater. I'm sure you'll be able to make the front unit work and it will be great. AZ does get cold but my truck is based where it is normal to see -20F for extended periods so I really wanted to keep my heat. For me, my install works great because we only get really hot weather for 3 months out of the entire year but if I were in AZ I might have done differently. That's the beauty of a Series, you can make it work no matter what your needs.