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How do I remove a/c evaporator


6spdav6

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Age
41
City
Ontario, CA
Vehicle Year
1990
Transmission
Automatic
I purchased a 1990 4.0 XLT Ranger earlier this year. When I bought the truck, the ac was not working. In the binder of receipts that came with it, there was an estimate for having the full ac system replaced a year earlier, but the original owner elected not to spend the money. I had a local shop look at it, and was quoted $600 to replace a line and the compressor. After doing my research, I can get all of the parts to replace the full system for the same price. After looking at it, I an confident with the process, the only problem is how to remove the evaporator. I have seen a few videos on youtube for the procedure, but not anything in a similar year. I see a bunch of small bolts around the seam in the housing, but am assuming that I need to remove it as one piece to get to all of them (blower housing and all). Does anyone have any guidance on how to move forward on this? My Haynes manual conveniently leaves out the evaporator, and the results from my search here leave me with similar posts without a reply, or that it is only 3 bolts to take out the whole housing, with one being in the passenger compartment. I know I will need to have the system evacuated before moving forward, and that I could always leave the evaporator and flush it, but I am leaning toward replacing it so that the full system is new, and there is no potential for parts of my blown compressor being left in the old evaporator.

Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to answer as many questions as I could in the OP. Thanks for taking the time. -Derek.
 
Found my answer

I ended up finding the answer to my question. Attached is the exploded diagram that helped me out. I figured I would pass the info along since it seems to have been asked before.
 

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Great picture.

Im a little bit confused by looking at the picture though - are all the bolts accessible from the engine bay, or do you have to dig into the dash to get as some from inside the cab?
 
Pretty sure you can get all the evap housing bolts from outside.
 

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