[DML] Re: Evaporator Core fused to Accumulator... ways out?

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

He is on the right track, but it's quite common to twist the end off 
the evap core. Replacing the evaporator is probably my least favorite 
project on the car, as usual, it seems that the entire interior of the 
car is build around the evaporator. There is no other trick to getting 
the bottle off the tube. I've tried heat without success.

The manual's description is pretty accurate, i.e. remove the console, 
pull the radio panel out a bit, remove the kneepads, glove box and then 
the recirc duct and then snap off a few of the retaining studs (just 
above the blower) that you access via that duct. Then find a bunch of 
other hidden screws and pull the whole mess down and out from the dash 
panel.

The "short cut" is, I belive, a Ken Koncelik-developed procedure that 
involves removing the screws that hold the left and right case halves 
together. so that the heater core (left) part stays in the car. This is 
very difficult if you've never seen the entire HVAC unit out of the car 
because the screws are impossible to see, i.e. you have to know where 
they are and work by feel from the driver side footwell. Ken swears he 
can do this, I'm not actually convinced its possible by normal humans 
and even less convinced that it's possible to put it back together with 
all the factory-supplied screws in place!

Dave Swingle


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Greg Zapf <x86Daddy@xxxx> wrote:
---> 
> If nothing else, does anyone have a short-cut method of getting the
> evaporator core replaced...  I've heard terrible things about the time
> involved, but I remember seeing someone say they had a method to
> remove it in an hour or so once.
> 
> Thanks,
> --Greg
> #2894






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