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AC Coil Questions Posted by Goldenbear [Email]  (#123) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Goldenbear) on Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:45:30
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Anyone have a source for an OEM AC coil?
Also, how does the coil wire disconnect from the compressor? I can see what looks like a white cylindrical connector of some sort (attached to the compressor by some sort of small bracket), but we couldn't figure out how to disconnect the wire from it.
Background:
The AC bearing died in June (made loud grinding noises), and the idler pulley disintegrated the following day, taking the belt with it. Since then, I've been running on a short belt while looking at my options. The entire time, the AC worked just fine, blowing nice and cold up to the moment that the belt snapped. Btw, the AC bearing didn't seize up. It fell apart, but you could still turn the pulley by hand.
I ended up ordering a replacement AC bearing, clutch plate, and coil from Adam Barczyk (see his eBay listings). Very nice and helpful guy.
The problem is, the coil he sent me is a generic coil, so the connector doesn't match. My friend and I could figure out how to disconnect the existing coil wire, and since the AC was working just fine before the belt snapped, we figured there's a good chance the coil was still good.
So, we left the exiting coil in place and replaced the pulley (with the new bearing). Then, we discovered that the clutch won't engage when the AC is turned on. We played around with shims so vary the gap between the clutch plate and pulley, but even when the plate is touching the pulley, it won't fully engage when the AC is turned on.
This leads us to believe the coil may be bad, which leads to my questions.
If an OEM coil isn't to expensive (Adam only charged me $3 for his coil), I'm willing to pay a bit more to avoid having to splice wires between the new coil and the existing wire harness. However, I'm also fine with splicing the wires, but it would be a lot easier if I could disconnect the wire first, so I could splice it on my bench.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Btw, I highly recommend you talk to Adam if you need a new bearing. I sent him my pulley ($5 to ship), and he swapped out the bearing and got it back to me very quickly. I dropped it off at the post office at 5pm on a Sat, and I had it back in my hands Friday afternoon. Total cost was $97 for replacing the bearing and resurfacing the pulley as needed, a new clutch plate (old clutch plate was pretty worn, with several grooves gouged in the face), and new coil (just in case old one was bad).
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