Technical Forums» Technical / Performance» So who's installed A/C into a micra before?
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since:  Posts: |
So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 06:08:55 PM |
|
will be attempting this in the coming weeks, anyone done it before and got any advice to give?
i've been told the system is complete and everything i need is there, so if that IS the case then it should be a matter of bolt up, wire up, and away i go.. obviously i'll need to get it regassed too anyone got any detailed shots of a micra engine bay with the a/c? |
||
|
|
||
|
Yom » CMF Member Brisbane Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 07:26:28 PM |
|
I've done it.
Definately not jumping up and down to do it again. Wasn't hard but wasn't easy. Just time consuming. |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 08:50:48 PM |
|
okay cool, got a pretty complete setup i think so wish me luck!
not going to pull the dash out but will take everything under it out of the way |
||
|
Yom » CMF Member Brisbane Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 10:43:09 PM |
|
lol.. Its really occured to me that there isnt a single part of the micra's engine bay I havent pulled apart (except the engine lol).
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 10:49:11 PM |
|
yom is a freakin champion for all his help so far, thanks mate!!
the before shot! |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 05 Oct 2007 11:20:14 PM |
|
old brackets and new brackets side by side...
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
ed. » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts:  |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 12:29:10 AM |
|
Hurry up and get it in, hot day tomorrow LOL
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 10:50:27 AM |
|
okay this is where i'm at....
is this engine mount going to get in the way? i don't have any idler wheel or top alternator braket to make it fit it seems :( |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 10:52:00 AM |
|
this is the only bracket i've got left that came with it all.... don't know how the alternator top bracket and adjuster is supposed to attatch!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 11:28:16 AM |
|
and this is what i need, if anyone has one lying around please let me know!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 06:22:13 PM |
|
massive wiring loom... unfun!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 06 Oct 2007 09:46:59 PM |
|
looks like i have to re install all the original brackets again... no idler pulley for the AC fan belt... Bugger!!
better luck next time |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sun 07 Oct 2007 10:45:01 AM |
|
only took about 40 mins to get it back to stock... left the AC core in but otherwise i'm back to non-ac micra-ism...
damn! |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:06:35 PM |
|
So i soldiered on today after a week or two of feeling pretty bummed about the whole thing... a massively hot morning drive to work convinced me it was time to get back into it, as well as installing some decent lighting in the garage!
lo and behold i managed to strip the AC wiring from the spaghetti of loom i was given with the kit... this is the plug that is ready and waiting in the original loom of the car, i didn't realise this at first and pulled the wire from the spare loom... then i found it coiled up waiting! yay! |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:07:29 PM |
|
wrong pic, sorry meant this one..
this wire goes from switched power through to a fuse then onto the relay |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:08:38 PM |
|
this plug is a mystery, does anyone know what it is for? i can't find any matching plugs on the loom or the car?? Yom??
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:09:27 PM |
|
all the bits waiting to go in!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:11:46 PM |
|
after a bit of encouragement i managed to take the backing of the relay holder off and slide the relay into position, i reckon this kit would have been pretty easy to install when the car was new and everything was clean and still bendy!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:13:12 PM |
|
this is the other plug that doesn't seem to have a home
it looks like it should be connected to a thermo fan but the AC system didn't come with an extra thermo fan... i think i'll have to wait and see and test this one because as in the photo above i have a spare fan which i could possibly run up against the core pretty easily if need be Another one that Yom might be able to help me out with! |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:14:17 PM |
|
this is the plug that goes to the rest of the loom at the one that goes through to the cabin of the car... that is the next thing i'm going to attack then finally i'll install the bracket and all the rest
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:51:18 PM |
|
got some more done, mounted reciever dryer, cut out heaterbox and installed cold box, mounted the high pressure lines, took out the dash, installed the new heater control panel
phew... |
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:52:56 PM |
|
cabin loom plug
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:53:32 PM |
|
this is what i had to cut with a jigsaw to make fit the AC box
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:53:55 PM |
|
with the blower removed, notice the factory cutouts for the AC lines
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:54:10 PM |
|
cut and mated up nicely!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:54:33 PM |
|
pulling the dash out took quite a bit of force but i got there in the end
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:54:52 PM |
|
new heater controls installed
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:55:19 PM |
|
what it looks like under the dash before you pull the blower etc out
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Wed 24 Oct 2007 02:55:35 PM |
|
poor car!
|
||
Image Attached:
|
||
|
s13n1 » CMF Member bendigo Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 26 Oct 2007 09:13:45 PM |
|
There is no bloody way i'm ever doing that! i hate working under the dash, you have to contort and twist and end up lying on something pointy.
I reckon i would track down one of those electric compact self contained air con units. About the size of a shoe box and runs off the cars battery. Not sure where you buy them or anything, i'm really not sure if they are even for sale yet, all i know is a local person owns half of the company that makes them, and apparently alot of interest has been shown in them, even by race teams, because of thier compact design, yet excellent performance. |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Fri 26 Oct 2007 11:49:01 PM |
|
dash is back in, compressor is in, lines are on (missing one bolt dammit!) hands are dirty and scratched to shit
gonna leave it at that for the night, cause all i've left to do is put the pulley belt on and adjust the tensioner... i'll start another thread about that cause doubt i'll get much of a looksee in here done wanna break the tensioner cause if i do i gotta start all over again! |
||
|
Yom » CMF Member Brisbane Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 27 Oct 2007 09:19:33 AM |
|
This has taken you so long :P
GTRHOLIC and I had this done in a half a day haha. Dash out and all. |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 27 Oct 2007 09:28:43 AM |
|
you had two people, and all the parts from day 1
this is my first job on the micra too... i could probly do it on a subaru in half a day no worries |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 27 Oct 2007 09:28:43 AM |
|
you had two people, and all the parts from day 1
this is my first job on the micra too... i could probly do it on a subaru in half a day no worries |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Sat 27 Oct 2007 12:29:27 PM |
|
Done! gassed up and everything works!
now just to put some interior bits back in the system is quite cold too which is good, no leaks :D :D :D |
||
|
ed. » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 29 Oct 2007 11:44:36 AM |
|
Well done mate!
Just in time for summer too. |
||
|
smidge » CMF Member Sydney Australia Member since: Posts: |
Re: So who's installed A/C into a micra before? |
Mon 29 Oct 2007 04:08:58 PM |
|
thanks ed., unfortunately none of the bits i got off you fit at all! its a whole different kit....
worth its weight in gold on the drive to work today... stinkin hot |
||