Looking for an evaporator, or a place that can put new pipes on mine...
Anyone?
Weeeellll.....
Mine's an early vin car and I'm guessing the evaporator has never been uncoupled.
When the AC chap attempted to remove the orifice tube it fell apart, half jammed deep inside the high pressure side tube.
Trying to remove the nut on the other pipe which attaches it to the accumulator, the tube had seriously corroded to the nut. All attempts to free it failed miserably so the tube had to be twisted to destruction to remove it.
So the high pressure tube has a part orifice tube stuck inside, and the low pressure tube is twisted in two!
Ummmmmmmmmmmm.
Honestly, I'd ditch it and get a new one from DMCH. If you try to repair it, you'll need to purge it with Oxygen free nitrogen, to stop slag and scale build up INSIDE the pipes your brazing or silver soldering on. Also with a capillary tube evaporator any flux or scale from the repair that has "varnish/coated" the inside of the tube during the repair could block the capillary months/days after recommissioning the system. This is the biggest problem. You could acid flush it afterwards but it all starts getting expensive.
To be fair, to do the repair PROPERLY would cost more in labour for a skilled man than a new evaporator, and even then you couldn't guarantee it.
If your really, really strapped for cash bring it to eurotech and I'll take a look and give you a better appraisal when I can see it.
Regards
D
Thanks for the info Darren
I have struggled to
find anywhere to even try to get anything done with it.
The new ones aren't toooooo expensive, but from experience, the shipping charges from Houston are monsterously overpriced at $90+ and not 'to your door'. Fedex usually slap a £20.00 'handling' fee on top of the customs bill - that's over £100 in shipping alone
which is taking the pi** quite frankly.
I don't want to put all the interior back together and have to take it all apart again - but then again I don't want the D sitting around any longer than necessary.... :roll:
Have you asked Ed if he has one? He could bring it over at eurotec.
Yup, just waiting a reply...
I may get the full works from SpecialT, but I've heard they can be a little slow..?
Bozzy, you've used them a couple of times, what's your experience been?
I've not had a radiator sent from SpecialT but I ordered an alternator monday and picked it up from post office saturday.
NickT.
I have used SpecialT a lot, sometimes John can be a bit slow at posting (should that be shipping?) things out, but not allways and more impotantly he will use normal USPS so you dont get stung with the Fed-Ex bill and import duties.
Chris