Has anyone seen a truck with Dealer Installed Air? - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

loweredd · 09-29-2003, 03:11 PM

Just like the heading? Anyone have one, or seen one? I want some brackets.....

79BIG10 · 09-29-2003, 05:34 PM

I haven't seen one btu I did sell a dealer installed a/c interior dash bezel. It had controls and vents made into a non/ac bezel. They had cut and inserted vents by screwing the face of the frame of the vent into the face of the bezel.

loweredd · 09-29-2003, 05:58 PM

Yeah. The controls are where the cubby on a non-AC truck is, or the top vent is on an AC truck.

PHOENIX · 09-29-2003, 06:43 PM

My truck had an aftermarket a/c system that sucked. It looked stock from the inside. But under the hood it had a huge bracket for the compressor that attached to all kinds of stuff. It was a pain in the @$$ to work on anything on the front of the engine, because you had to remove that bracket. The other part of the system that sucked was the switch inside the dash. It looked like they modified a non-a/c control system, by adding cheap switches that had bad connections and drove me crazy. When my mother first bough the truck they a/c worked well, by the time I got the truck the a/c system was going down hill and causing me headaches. I ripped almost the entire system out. I do not plan on putting in another system, but it gets damn hot here, so I might.

loweredd · 09-29-2003, 07:42 PM

was the compressor a York compressor? Do you still have the brackets?

cochino12 · 09-30-2003, 10:03 AM

i THINK MY TRUCK HAD DEALER INSTALLED AIR, BUT I AM NOT 100% SURE. I TOOK MOST OF IT OUT A LITTLE WHILE AGO. IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN GET SOME PICS OF THE COMPRESSOR AND THE BRACKETS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 11:01 AM

oh, Im interested if in fact it is dealer installed!!!!

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 11:03 AM

LOL, you forgot your caps lock was on.

PHOENIX · 09-30-2003, 11:24 AM

Yes it was a york type compressor. I sold the bracket and compressor to another board member awhile back.

I might still have pictures of the bracket though, if it would be helpful in finding one.

If I had to do it again I would make my own bracket that wasnt so big, ugly, and pain in the @$$.

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 11:58 AM

Oh. Thanks Phoenix. I have a bracket set, but it needs to stay on the all original truck. I want to run the York as my air compressor. I might just rob this bracket, and make one. It would be easier if someone had a bracket to sell though. That's why I wondered.

clubairth · 09-30-2003, 12:50 PM

I have a dealer installed A/C unit on a 1977 GMC pickup. Made by ARA. ARA was sold to ACME in 1981 or so. I had a heck of a hard time getting the correct top radiator hose because of the compressor mounting. Finally got 2!! Keep one as a spare!

It has the York compressor. If you need pictures let me know. Seems to be a good system. Had never been serviced in 26 years and did not cool anymore. Pulled a vacuum to look for leaks. Found none. Refilled the system with R-12 and works great!
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loweredd · 09-30-2003, 02:42 PM

but..........do you have brackets you would like to sell?

clubairth · 09-30-2003, 03:27 PM

Sorry! I will keep these. I have not seen another with dealer air?
I wonder how rare it is?
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72MARIO · 09-30-2003, 03:27 PM

I think that I saw a set up that may have been delear installed. It looked funny the compressor was on the drivers side the hoses went behind the motor The heater box looked alot diffirent than the other trucks I have seen. The truck was a 4x4 and it had Air and roll down windows and manual locks and no tilt.

Wierd Huh ?

( Note I edited My post )

Sorry I was in a rush.

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 03:49 PM

clubairth, I have not seen another besides my Grandpa's, and mario, you are right. The hoses go into the firewall just like the heater core. I dunno about the air windows.....that's pretty crazy!

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 03:51 PM

ROFL, ooops. I see you forgot a coma, and didnt mean air powered windows. LOL. My dad has those in his Freightliner though!

1974ChevyC10 · 09-30-2003, 06:06 PM

my dad used to have a 73 with a dealer installed air setup.he bought from this old mans widow and the guy bought the truck that way.it had the controls in the cubby hole,gm factory ducting and a really big ass compressor mounted to the front of the engine on the drivers side of the motor if im not mistaken-my memory is a little hazy on this one my dad sold the truck over 5 yrs ago.his never worked worth a damn and the compressor on it finally seized and my dad never repaired it.

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 06:11 PM

That's the setup exactly!! Controls, and a little vent in the cubby. Dang it. I want the compressor brackets!! AAAAGGGHHHHH

72MARIO · 09-30-2003, 09:12 PM

Make Em !

loweredd · 09-30-2003, 10:43 PM

yeah, I know. I will end up doing that. I just wish right now.....that I have 15 other things goin on, that I could find them. Ya know?

**Captkaos** · 10-01-2003, 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by loweredd
Just like the heading? Anyone have one, or seen one? I want some brackets.....

I have seen a few, but not any that are going to give up brackets. It should be easy to copy the originals based on what I have seen. Heck like what has been said here, a couple looked like crap to me...

09-29-2003, 03:11 PM	#1
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	Has anyone seen a truck with Dealer Installed Air? Just like the heading? Anyone have one, or seen one? I want some brackets.....

09-29-2003, 05:34 PM	#2
79BIG10 I'm back with 2nd truck! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 3,774	I haven't seen one btu I did sell a dealer installed a/c interior dash bezel. It had controls and vents made into a non/ac bezel. They had cut and inserted vents by screwing the face of the frame of the vent into the face of the bezel. __________________ 1979 Chevrolet Bonanza Big10 "Tootsie Roll" 1985 Chevrolet Silverado (wife's) Member of the Southern Bowties Club "Don't underestimate how sexy a fat man who drinks to excess can be." Homer Simpson

09-29-2003, 06:43 PM	#4
PHOENIX Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Phoenix, Arizona Posts: 4,703	My truck had an aftermarket a/c system that sucked. It looked stock from the inside. But under the hood it had a huge bracket for the compressor that attached to all kinds of stuff. It was a pain in the @$$ to work on anything on the front of the engine, because you had to remove that bracket. The other part of the system that sucked was the switch inside the dash. It looked like they modified a non-a/c control system, by adding cheap switches that had bad connections and drove me crazy. When my mother first bough the truck they a/c worked well, by the time I got the truck the a/c system was going down hill and causing me headaches. I ripped almost the entire system out. I do not plan on putting in another system, but it gets damn hot here, so I might. __________________ * AVOID: LOPER'S PERMORANCE / LOPERSPEED.COM OF PHOENIX, AZ & COTTMAN TRANSMISSION *

09-30-2003, 10:03 AM	#6
cochino12 It followed me home? Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Yup Posts: 5,751	i THINK MY TRUCK HAD DEALER INSTALLED AIR, BUT I AM NOT 100% SURE. I TOOK MOST OF IT OUT A LITTLE WHILE AGO. IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN GET SOME PICS OF THE COMPRESSOR AND THE BRACKETS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. __________________ Adam That's why they call it a shortcut Kyle, if it was easy it would just be the way. 86 c-10 SWB 85 CCSB 90 GMC K30 Crew SRW 1985 C30 Dually

09-30-2003, 11:24 AM	#9
PHOENIX Registered User Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Phoenix, Arizona Posts: 4,703	Yes it was a york type compressor. I sold the bracket and compressor to another board member awhile back. I might still have pictures of the bracket though, if it would be helpful in finding one. If I had to do it again I would make my own bracket that wasnt so big, ugly, and pain in the @$$. __________________ * AVOID: LOPER'S PERMORANCE / LOPERSPEED.COM OF PHOENIX, AZ & COTTMAN TRANSMISSION * Last edited by PHOENIX; 09-30-2003 at 11:34 AM.

09-29-2003, 05:58 PM	#3
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	Yeah. The controls are where the cubby on a non-AC truck is, or the top vent is on an AC truck.

09-29-2003, 07:42 PM	#5
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	was the compressor a York compressor? Do you still have the brackets?

09-30-2003, 11:01 AM	#7
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	oh, Im interested if in fact it is dealer installed!!!!

09-30-2003, 11:03 AM	#8
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	LOL, you forgot your caps lock was on.

09-30-2003, 11:58 AM	#10
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	Oh. Thanks Phoenix. I have a bracket set, but it needs to stay on the all original truck. I want to run the York as my air compressor. I might just rob this bracket, and make one. It would be easier if someone had a bracket to sell though. That's why I wondered.

09-30-2003, 12:50 PM	#11
clubairth Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 14	I have a dealer installed A/C unit on a 1977 GMC pickup. Made by ARA. ARA was sold to ACME in 1981 or so. I had a heck of a hard time getting the correct top radiator hose because of the compressor mounting. Finally got 2!! Keep one as a spare! It has the York compressor. If you need pictures let me know. Seems to be a good system. Had never been serviced in 26 years and did not cool anymore. Pulled a vacuum to look for leaks. Found none. Refilled the system with R-12 and works great! . .

09-30-2003, 02:42 PM	#12
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	but..........do you have brackets you would like to sell?

09-30-2003, 03:27 PM	#13
clubairth Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 14	Sorry! I will keep these. I have not seen another with dealer air? I wonder how rare it is? . . .

09-30-2003, 03:27 PM	#14
72MARIO Registered User Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Huntsville Ontario Canada Posts: 4,051	I think that I saw a set up that may have been delear installed. It looked funny the compressor was on the drivers side the hoses went behind the motor The heater box looked alot diffirent than the other trucks I have seen. The truck was a 4x4 and it had Air and roll down windows and manual locks and no tilt. Wierd Huh ? ( Note I edited My post ) Sorry I was in a rush. __________________ 1968 Suburban numbers matching all original truck now equipped with 6.0/4L80 on Accuair http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=625017 1967 C/20 6.0/4L80 Roofing Truck 1990 V2500 Suburban "Plow Truck" 2005 TAHOE DD Last edited by 72MARIO; 09-30-2003 at 09:10 PM.

09-30-2003, 03:49 PM	#15
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	clubairth, I have not seen another besides my Grandpa's, and mario, you are right. The hoses go into the firewall just like the heater core. I dunno about the air windows.....that's pretty crazy!



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09-30-2003, 03:51 PM	#16
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	ROFL, ooops. I see you forgot a coma, and didnt mean air powered windows. LOL. My dad has those in his Freightliner though!

09-30-2003, 06:06 PM	#17
1974ChevyC10 Overworked and Underlaid Join Date: May 2002 Location: Flagstaff,Arizona Posts: 1,279	my dad used to have a 73 with a dealer installed air setup.he bought from this old mans widow and the guy bought the truck that way.it had the controls in the cubby hole,gm factory ducting and a really big ass compressor mounted to the front of the engine on the drivers side of the motor if im not mistaken-my memory is a little hazy on this one my dad sold the truck over 5 yrs ago.his never worked worth a damn and the compressor on it finally seized and my dad never repaired it. __________________ I'd rather push a Chevy than drive a Ford The Beast-1978 C10 LWB Red-1978 C10 LWB (Uncle Mike)Michael Henry Millett 11/5/1957 to 03/08/2012 Gone but will never be forgotten-RIP (Uncle Chuck)Charles Manning Gulbronsen Sr 1956-2012 Taken from us to soon but you will live on in our hearts-RIP

09-30-2003, 06:11 PM	#18
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	That's the setup exactly!! Controls, and a little vent in the cubby. Dang it. I want the compressor brackets!! AAAAGGGHHHHH

09-30-2003, 09:12 PM	#19
72MARIO Registered User Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Huntsville Ontario Canada Posts: 4,051	Make Em ! __________________ 1968 Suburban numbers matching all original truck now equipped with 6.0/4L80 on Accuair http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=625017 1967 C/20 6.0/4L80 Roofing Truck 1990 V2500 Suburban "Plow Truck" 2005 TAHOE DD

09-30-2003, 10:43 PM	#20
loweredd www.loweredd.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Struble IA Posts: 808	yeah, I know. I will end up doing that. I just wish right now.....that I have 15 other things goin on, that I could find them. Ya know?

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