Automotive Air Conditioning Information Forum

Yeah, the threads original question has been answered. So I guess I'm good.

Removing the links.

A '74 Chevy C10 has the entire evaporator hanging off the firewall on the engine side. Everything's as exposed as it possibly can be.

TLDR:
I'll probably go with the Vintage Air TXV. I could have sworn I started looking at other TXVs to find a shorter capillary tube thinking the VA TXV had a super long one. But I guess I was just looking for cheaper options. It's at least twice as much as most others, but I s'pose it does come ...

- I'm in North Alabama.


- So, about the TXV conversion. I was looking at several on Summit. Figured I'd pick one that had just the right length capillary tube for a tidy install. Then I looked up the specs on the various ones I was considering and saw they had different superheat values.

This led ...

The big question:
Will a drier negatively affect an FOT system? As in having one between the condenser and the orifice tube.


The details:
I'm working on getting the AC in a '74 Chevy C10 going.

I'm using the original evaporator/heater box. The evaporator has a fixed orifice tube.

I went for ...