<VV> Clark's A/C Instruction booklet

[John O'Shea]

I installed a 66 factory system in my 65.  I used the Clark's repro of the 
GM manual and the Clark's templates.  Can't verify if 69 models have all the 
dimples in the body, but the 65 and 66 models come from the factory with 
locating dimples for add-on factory A/C systems.

Examine the area just below your windshield wiper motor.  If 69s have them, 
you should find dimples for two of the evaporator bolts and the cutout for 
the liquid line to the evaporator.  To the right of the passenger windshield 
squirter there should be dimples to locate the factory fresh air cutout. 
The blower housing requires one big cutout, not two.

I believe there was also a dimple to locate the large hole on the passenger 
side just below the rear seat cushion where the evaporator suction line goes 
from inside the car to underneath.  I also mounted a modern parallel flow 
condenser in the trunk with a large fan in the bottom of the trunk.

If you are installing a factory system and you intend to use R-134A 
refrigerant, you may want to convert all the connections to modern O-ring 
fittings.
All modern cars for quite few years have used O-ring connections.  R-134A 
really doesn't like Corvair style hose barbs and hose clamps.

Those that have installed a factory A/C chime in here.

A Corvair without A/C in a Las Vegas summer is a Corvair from Hell!
Jack - Vegas Vairs



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Taruffi57 at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Clark's A/C Instruction booklet


> Massive Confusion.
>
> After a read-through and looking at the templates I was sent by Clark's, I
> find these points confusing:  AND, several of their pics are so black and
> poor that you can't see detail.
> (a)  Pg. 19 of booklet:  Reference to drilling of a hole at  "A".  There 
> is
> no "A" in the pic but it may be in a black/dark area which  would be from
> Clark's poor copying of this booklet.
> (b)  Pg. 19 of booklet.  Hole "C" - which appears to be hose hole  for 
> line
> from Dryer to Evaporator, is shown right where I think the Blower Assy.
> has to sit.  This has to be wrong.
> (c)  I can find no reference to exactly where you position the Blower
> template to cut the large hole - or is it 2 holes(?) to mount the Blower 
> Assy.
> (d)  there is not one pic of the blower holes - cut, nor any pic of  the
> blower mounted in position in this instructional booklet.  In short, I 
> know
> where it goes, but I'm not going to cut until I know EXACTLY where to 
> cut.
> (e)  no mention of moving the Windshield Washer Bracket/Tank  Assy. nor
> where to re-mount it.
> (f)  1 or 2 of the Templates have 2 Templates overlayed each other on  the
> same sheet of paper - with instructions to cut them out.  Not only is 
> there
> NO wording on those Templates to say WHAT they are for, but it is not
> clear exactly where to cut to separate them.
>
> I am doing a trunk-mount Condenser new A/C installation on my '69  Coupe.
> All of the above makes me wonder what confusion I will run  into when I 
> get
> into mounting the Evaporator and the Engine area parts.
>
> While I certainly appreciate the vast effort someone put into creating 
> this
> manual, there are also other small points of confusion for the first-time
> installer where it appears that the manual writer assumed that we would
> already  know details.  I think I'm better than average at figuring out a 
> lot
> of  things - mechanical, but it seems to me that when you write a manual 
> such
> as  this, you have to assume that the reader may be a 1st-time, 
> cold-turkey
> installer who needs everything written out in clear step-by-step sequence.
>
> I'll be calling Clark's on Monday morning.
>
> Joe Dunlap
> Florida
> 2 Corvairs
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