Homemade 12v SWAMP COOLER!

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I’m not a Redneck, well ok maybe a little, you’ll understand why I said that after reading this! A few days ago I was stuck in traffic in my 1973 C20 454 with NON-WORKING FACTORY AC sweating my Huevos off and had an idea, since I can’t spend hundreds to fix the AC just yet I decided to build my own 12v Swamp Cooler! Hold on, don’t give up on me yet here’s my parts list: two 5 gallon buckets I had laying around, one electric cooling fan from junkyard $10, one electric submersible fuel pump from junkyard $5, blue swamp cooler pad from ACE $10 and the rest of these parts I already had, 3’ of ¾” tubing & a 3-way tee, some stucco wire, a hand full of Zip Ties, a few nuts & bolts and some wire! This is how I built it, I made the bucket taller, popped out 26 holes with my 3” hole saw and some 1’ holes, I wrapped the inside of the bucket with the stucco wire and attached the blue swamp cooler pad to it. I cut the tubing to the I.D. of the bucket and added the 3-way tee, I drilled about 20 3/16th holes in the bottom of the tubing so water could drip on the pad then I cut a piece of tubing long enough to reach the bottom of the bucket where the fuel pump is, I cut the frame off the cooling fan and set it below the rim of the bucket so it would only suck air through the pads and there you go, a 12v Swamp Cooler! I’m kinda proud of my creation, it’s ugly and kinda big but it cools down the inside of my truck dramatically! It’s the difference between sweating profusely to where it’s almost intolerable to not sweating at all, no joke! I’m definitely a lot happier now when I get home from work, it seems to have cured that pesky little Road Rage issue I had, lol!!




I'll build more!