[asrassoc]

Good afternoon all,

Although I am doing a complete restoration and trying to stay as true to the original car as we can, calling it concours would not be correct. My Mach came with forced ventilation NOT A/C. As I am working through the restoration I have been struggling what to do about that as she resides in FL.

I was able to locate a complete lower dash in pristine shape with the A/C side vents. Also the COMPLETE (as near as I can tell) duct set up, compressor, evaporator, blower, bracelets and pulleys. BONUS!

Based on one of the markings it looks like this A/C setup came off of a 351. (see Pic) As near as I can tell the 351 set up shares a lot of parts with the 390/428 set up. At least according to the schematics I have.

So.....

Should I plan on replacing the compressor with a more modern one? or can it be rebuilt and use modern refrigerant?

Does anyone have a horror story or preferably a success story doing this they can share?

Any do or dont's would be appreciated.

 

[asrassoc]

Will be sealing it up along with the non-A/C lower dash and boxing it for storage so if and when I sell the car the factory parts are there if someone wants to put her back as originally manufactured.

 

[asrassoc]

Lucky for me the Classic air folks have their A/C refurbish facility about 30 minutes away from me. Which is less than 15 minutes from where my car is being restored. Just dropped off all of the A/C parts yesterday to be restored.

Does anyone have pics they can share of a finished install on their 428CJ? Curious about a few things.

Thanks in advance.