ive got me radiator off and need to take the aircon rad out

 

if i take it out could i leave it out as i dont use my air con and i know it will help with cooling my rad

 

what would i need to do to leave this out

 

thanx in advance

first you need to release the pressure from the system, theres a pipe with a plastic valve cap near the battery take that off and let gas out (not to atmosphere of course :P)

 

then just undo two screws at top of ac rad, bend forward and chop the pipes as far back as you can. remove the little bottle at the front too (trace pipework from rad) two 10mm bolts hold bracket to car.

 

might as well remove compressor and bracket while your at it seeing as your air con will no longer work

cheers bud, but i think ive got it wrong which one is the aircon rad

 

ive removed one rad which is nearest the enginge

 

then there is a rad infornt of that

 

then there is some sort of rad under the air filter

 

which one is which

 

cheers

cheers bud, but i think ive got it wrong which one is the aircon rad

 

ive removed one rad which is nearest the enginge

 

then there is a rad infornt of that

 

then there is some sort of rad under the air filter

 

which one is which

 

cheers

the small one under the filter (front side of electric fan) is the engine oil cooler. the one on the engine side of the electric fan is the ac rad.

cheers mate got the rad out

 

but where is the compressor

 

is it at the side of the oil cooler

cheers mate got the rad out

 

but where is the compressor

 

is it at the side of the oil cooler

compressor is bolted to the bottom right hand side of the engine (looking from front)

 

you want to remove everything outside the green box

undo circled connection, cut red lines as far back as you can

 

remove red bolts first, then green ones (all 14mm apart from the one through the cam cover

which is 8mm and the one on top of the compressor holding the pipe)

 

you need a flexi-socket to undo the arrowed bolt

 

did you sort it bud?

yeah cheers for your help yas :bow:

yeah cheers for your help yas :bow:

nice one, maybe this can be moved to the FAQ area???