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12-21-2005, 03:53 PM
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Location: Saskatchewan
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Adding A/C
Wanting feedback from people who've added A/C to their truck. My 81 Sierra Classic came from the factory with cruise as the only option. I added a tilt column years ago, but now I want cold air. I was planning on scrounging brackets, ducts, vents, controls and everything from a wreck and buying parts store condenser and compressor. That way everything looked like the General did it.
But now I'm wondering if an aftermarket system wouldn't be better so there is no doghouse under the hood for the evaporator. Is there an aftermarket kit that uses the factory dash controls? That is one thing I won't deviate from. It's got to use the factory dash controls.
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12-21-2005, 03:57 PM
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Re: Adding A/C
Look at vintage air. They have a number of kits avaliable.
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12-21-2005, 04:09 PM
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Re: Adding A/C
Aftermarket is prolly the easiest to retrofit A/C. The firewall openings are different between a factory A/C cab and a non A/C cab.
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12-21-2005, 05:18 PM
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Re: Adding A/C
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12-21-2005, 06:26 PM
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Re: Adding A/C
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I was just at the Vintage Air site and it shows the system using the original controls. I'll check that out more.
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12-22-2005, 03:20 AM
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Location: Sacramento, CA
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Re: Adding A/C
I'll tell you, Vintage air will probably be the most cost effective way to add a/c. Just to get my a/c to r134a was $300+ (including compressor) and that is if you have all the equiptment (vacuum pump, gauges, & lines).
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12-22-2005, 11:14 AM
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Re: Adding A/C
A friend of mine used to work at Vintage Air. he says the kit is of good quality.
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12-22-2005, 11:53 AM
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Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Re: Adding A/C
When I got my truck it had an aftermarket kit in it.
It worked well, but I had problems and didn't like the design. I was from some company in Texas. I ripped it all out and have no A/C in Phoenix, its hot. I vote factory a/c!
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