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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:02 pm 
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Since my aircon s**t itself last year, condensor and evaperator, and i could buy a new ef for the cost of the aircon i was wondering if i could remove the drive belt from the compressor. Im assuming i would need a smaller drive belt. can anyone tell me if it is possible and what i will need?
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:19 pm 
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cant see it being a drama
BUT im not sure the shorter belt will fint and run withouth the compresor pully

since the aircon is never on why bother?

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:36 pm 
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You can on EA-ED, doubt it on EF-BA.

The tensioner would get in the way of the belt running properly, unless you can figure out the way to run the belt so that everything spins the right way still, and bypasses the air-con.

If you can figure it out, I too would be interested, as I have removed all parts of my A/C bar the compressor.

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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:47 pm 
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it is possible - when i was looking around for my EF, i found an EF in a caryard WITHOUT aircon. i thought aircon was standard on all EF's....

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:05 am 
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mr_sperm1 wrote:
it is possible - when i was looking around for my EF, i found an EF in a caryard WITHOUT aircon. i thought aircon was standard on all EF's....


Ill call ford tomorrow and find out.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:07 am 
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mr_sperm1 wrote:
it is possible - when i was looking around for my EF, i found an EF in a caryard WITHOUT aircon. i thought aircon was standard on all EF's....


Very interested in this.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:08 am 
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i was thinking about this the other day, ive always just gone and bought an ef belt and fitted it but it only dawned on me that not all ef's had a/c and i was wondering what belt set up they used.

just out of interest why dont you just fix the a/c second hand parts, in fact i think i have a compressor laying around.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:34 am 
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Rapier wrote:
i was thinking about this the other day, ive always just gone and bought an ef belt and fitted it but it only dawned on me that not all ef's had a/c and i was wondering what belt set up they used.

just out of interest why dont you just fix the a/c second hand parts, in fact i think i have a compressor laying around.


Its a lot of work replacing the evaporator and condensor and who knows what u get with second hand parts. The aircon going on EF is apparently quite common.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:37 am 
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When the XH Utes were delivered to dealerships they had no AC. In place of the compressor is a bracket and a pulley. So they can run the same belt.
All utes had their AC installed at dealerships.

If you can track down one of these pulleys then you could remove the compressor

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:42 am 
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it is possible - when i was looking around for my EF, i found an EF in a caryard WITHOUT aircon. i thought aircon was standard on all EF's....


Funny the way Ford work. All AC on EF/EL Falcon was optional. However they all had it fitted standard in the factory. If you didn't want AC then they had to order the car without it. I guess because most people chose to have it, it was cheaper for ford to install it as they built the car.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:26 am 
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yeah it was almost as if you had to option it off.

there is a bracket and pulley that you can put inplace of the compressor as said. not too sure what you would gain from this though, the belt is still going to be the same length and the resistence difference wouldn't be that much anyway i wouldnt think

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:36 am 
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looks like the compressor stays!
Ford told me im stuck with it.
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