Sonar_un

Well, after fighting and fighting with my cooling system, I finally bit the bullet and bought a parallel flow condenser. I took a bunch of pics with my crappy camera phone to show what I did in hopes that it may help someone else down the road. Oh yeah, and forigve my pathetic camera phone pics.

Notice the size difference between the orignal condenser and the new parallel flow one. I could not find an exact fit, but this one came pretty damn close. The size I ordered was 15.5 x 24.75.







In this picture, I had the old tubes cut off the original condenser and brazed to the new condenser. This was going to make it much easier for me to install the unit using fairly factory peices. Unfortunately, by the time I was done, my soft low side line was about 2 inches too short. The strange part was that the solid high side line fit.







In these next two pictures, you can see how I mounted the condenser. I used self tapping screws and just drilled into the support. In the second picture, in order to get the right distance, I used a peice of flat aluminium to help bridge the gap. The bottom half fits perfectly in the groove so it isn't going anywhere. The whole condenser is solid as a rock. Notice how I did not have to take the radiator out to do the whole project. I was even able to drill the holes I needed with a 90 degree drill.







With my previous condenser, which you can kind of see in the earlier pics, was pretty beat up. I had a leak coming from somewhere which I could not find and my high pressures were though the roof. I am hoping this will fix the problem.

Since my line was too short, I haven't had a chance to get a new one made, however I will update this post when I get everything blowing again.

FbodTrek

Also, an update (since sonar is too lazy). Before, we could only get his system moderately cool. High side pressure was too high, and changing orifice tubes, adn all teh toehr tricks would not work to improve the A/C cooling. After the install of the parallel flow, and two cans of 134a, the system now makes ice. His dryer never could even get cool to the touch, now it freezes. So, for any thirdgenner with an A/C that isn't up to snuff...this project cost a total of less than 200 bux, including freon.