Use your battery charger or battery to engage clutch and a strap wrench to hold pulley then while holding strap wrench ratchet off nut CCW aka lefty loosey. If you have air impact gun put it in reverse and take makes it easier than ratch but you need clutch engaged.OK the compressor is sitting on a piece of plywood on top of the engine. Now, can anyone give me an easy way to get the nut off-the one in the center of the clutch assembly? I need to keep everything from turning while I wrench on the nut.
Thanks!
Sounds like maybe clutch coil is toasted if you hooked negative to case and positive to red coil wire. You don't need bigger wires than one coming out of coil.I was just out trying to get the clutch to engage. I wired a spare battery to the compressor, grounded on compressor frame. Got no click, wires just got hot. I'm gonna try heavier wires (jumper cables) but I think I'm doomed.
Well, right now I am doing a major a/c evaporator replacement on my wife's like new with only 212,000 miles on it Jeep Grand Cherokee. The 164 a/c system is a cake walk. I had to pull entire dash and lay on front seats and boy is it heavy to even get to box that holds evaporator, heater core and blower motor.Steve-
The compressor itself turns fine, so I think it's OK. I'm sure your bolt method will work. Where can I source a clutch module? I need to get this heap back on the road as I really don't like "sharing" my other Alfas!
As an aside, what would we be doing if we didn't have these cars?
Probably a fair price as ebayer in Miami offered job for $1000 recently and then came back with new listing of about $850 I think.Just found out that the evaporator in our Jeep Grand Cherokee (98, only 140K) also needs replacement. Our local garage that we use for almost all repairs quoted $850. They also said they need it for 2 days. After looking at the photos, it looks like a good deal.
You might try Polar Air for clutch coil I printed number of it pulley and clutch in link above. 7x5 pulley bit hard to find but coil maybe easier and you can replace pulley bearing pretty easy.Steve-
The compressor itself turns fine, so I think it's OK. I'm sure your bolt method will work. Where can I source a clutch module? I need to get this heap back on the road as I really don't like "sharing" my other Alfas!
As an aside, what would we be doing if we didn't have these cars?
No 6mm/1.25 bolts in our little town, so it's off to Ft. Smith this morning to get some. Sure wish my compressor was plumbed in so I could hit it with impact!
Yes they are same size as you would use on Milano compressor clutch plate. Please post what size you find fits both cars so I can correct/update my procedure posts.You caught me in time. Now I'm nervous. I wonder if they're same as my Milano, as I'll be driving it. Maybe I'll just buy 3 of every pitch available.