neat lil a/c trick

[leroiboy]

ok, i dont know if im late on this or one out of many that has discovered the following...i swapped my s13 redtop sr20det into my 89 sohc coupe. i used my complete sohc a/c system(lines,bracket,compressor,condensor) on the sr and EVERYTHING LINED UP--------->almost-i just shaved one rib off of a little bigger belt that the stock one. has anyone else experienced this? i was going to eliminate ac until i had the money to to get a complete system of whatever chassis, but my friend came over today and saw me deleting it and he got his hands in it and wah-lah! i discharged it tho so i can retrofit to 134.

[tetsuo]

I'm trying my hardest to get A/C in my 90. what exactly did you mean, "i just shaved one rib off of a little bigger belt that the stock one."

[Rosco]

I'm trying my hardest to get A/C in my 90. what exactly did you mean, "i just shaved one rib off of a little bigger belt that the stock one."

If so, doesn't that ruin the integrity of the belt??

[AZhitman]

Why not just buy a 3-rib belt in the proper size?

Belt part numbers include the size, if you didn't know.

[leroiboy]

I'm trying my hardest to get A/C in my 90. what exactly did you mean, "i just shaved one rib off of a little bigger belt that the stock one."

i just cut one of the ribs off the belt-instead of it being a 4rib belt, its now a 3rib.

If so, doesn't that ruin the integrity of the belt??

i have done this little shadetree trick before and it never seems to fail outright, it probably does SHORTEN the life of the belt. but how i look at it is that it's just the belt for the a/c-if it breaks, its no big deal because it's an easy fix and it's not anything that will cause any problems(besides it was going to be non-existent in my car anyway, but then again i live in georgia...)

Why not just buy a 3-rib belt in the proper size?Belt part numbers include the size, if you didn't know.

yea, i will do this if it breaks or I just have one of those days with not much to do, but I had a couple belts lying around the house and just started matching them up along side each other and used the best canidate.

[tetsuo]

I'm reading that the lines don't fit, and you need brackets to make the SOHC fit?

In your case, everything just bolted on ??

[leroiboy]

not everything. i got two bolts into the block thru the ka bracket. i got all four bolts in the compressor thru the bracket. i used my existing sohc lines,compressor and bracket.