RE: [DMCForum] Re: evaporator hell was... evaporator is back out
From: Travis Goodwin <tgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:29:51 -0400
You have such lovely hands, Walt.
If you put a screen of some kind over the windshield vent are you planning
to do it from the underside? If you do it could clog easily. A few leaves
would completely block it up. Then again, I reckon you could just suck the
out from the top when you need to.
When I did mine I moved the SS mesh to the front to keep the leaves from
getting into the evaporator from the front. It made more sense to me at the
time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Coe [mailto:Whalt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:48 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: evaporator hell was... evaporator is back out
> Evaporators out of 3 Deloreans, how many damn Deloreans do
you got
around there?
About 4.5 -- if you count one that was missing the body when
I got it. It's a bad habit sort of like smoking. I need to
start cutting back. The first one was a regular purchase
which got me hooked. Two others were such good deals
(project cars) that I couldn't pass up -- like I could
instantly resell them for a profit. The other was a so-so
deal, but is in pretty good condition for the price. I
intend to get the numbers down to two daily drivers and stop
at that. Why two? That is the way I tend to live my
life -- with two cars. If at any given time I can keep at
least one running then I'm doing great.
I finally found an evaporator that I like. Unfortunately, I
owe two evaporators back to the cars that I borrowed them
from. (Three if I count the parts car.) I pulled the
orifice out of it, and it looks almost new:
www.DMCForum.org/images/offtopic/cleanorifice.jpg
(I have the orifice held in an extraction tool.)
Here is a pic of a bent orifice that came out of a bent
evaporator high side line. I have the line & the orifice
side by side so you can see the cause & effect. It appears
this one was bent during installation at the factory.
www.DMCForum.org/images/offtopic/orificebent.jpg
Also note the nasty corrosion around the neck of the low
side line (larger pipe). Bill -- yours probably looks a bit
worse than this by now. ;-)
The lines aren't particularly bent. At least the fins
aren't plugged with rat turds & hair. It did have a little
compost, but that is to be expected:
www.DMCForum.org/images/offtopic/cleanevaporator1.jpg
www.DMCForum.org/images/offtopic/cleanevaporator2.jpg
I'm using the built-in flash which doesn't stick up high
enough. Or the lens is too fat. That's the shadow that you
see. I've been trying to get a medical/ring flash, but the
model I'm after has been on back order for months. My old
flash doesn't seem to work with this new camera. Guess I
gotta read the manual.
I am definitely going to put some fiberglass window screen
under the windshield vent. There is no sense in letting
leaves in there. I'm also going to look at ways to add a
baffle to keep water out of the blower motor. But I can do
that with the system together at a later date.
> and now that he has his new toy we are getting almost
daily updates WITH pictures? ;)
Yeah, digital is definitely the way to go. Unfortunately I
haven't had time to learn how to use the thing. I have no
idea how to lock the exposure. It keeps wanting to focus on
the closest object, etc. I know these have simple answers,
but that requires reading the manual. And why do that when
I have a car to get ready for Pigeon Forge?
Will anyone be bringing a laptop computer with USB port to
Pigeon Forge? I may need to download some pics cuz I could
run out of space. I intend to take hundreds of photos of
anything relevant that can be used for the DMCForum
technical section. Which reminds me: I can't even read the
manual to the damn camera. How am I supposed to write HTML
to get these photos online. Rich? Buhler? ;-)
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