rickyraccoon
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'99 Mystique with the 2 liter. So... I have a trashed A/C compressor pulley bearing. My million-dollar question, is has anyone ever attempted or managed to change that out without breaking open the system and completely removing the compressor? I'm really really really super not wanting to do that. I mean, I know it's a bad bearing, I can see the pulley, I can wiggle the thing by hand the bearing is just completely fragged, I can lay my finger on the central bolt, it looks as if there might be enough room to get the pulley off unless that bolt is just way too long, and I can't unbolt the compressor enough to move it around a little.
Thing went bad returning from a long trip, and at the time I thought 'oh great, compressor' without really thinking it through and simply switched the serpentine belt out for a shorter one, managing to bypass the A/C compressor. But, I'm starting to miss my air conditioning. It's frustrating that something so simple is so darned hard to get at.
One thing I'm wondering is what's the size of the head on that bolt. First whack I took at it, I couldn't quite figure that out- metric? SAE? nothing I had on hand seemed to quite fit right. Barring an answer here, I have a date with Harbor Freight for offset wrench sets in both systems of measurement- stupid thing has to be something, and I'mma gonna get it sized, and give it another go.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
edited for spelling
Thing went bad returning from a long trip, and at the time I thought 'oh great, compressor' without really thinking it through and simply switched the serpentine belt out for a shorter one, managing to bypass the A/C compressor. But, I'm starting to miss my air conditioning. It's frustrating that something so simple is so darned hard to get at.
One thing I'm wondering is what's the size of the head on that bolt. First whack I took at it, I couldn't quite figure that out- metric? SAE? nothing I had on hand seemed to quite fit right. Barring an answer here, I have a date with Harbor Freight for offset wrench sets in both systems of measurement- stupid thing has to be something, and I'mma gonna get it sized, and give it another go.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
edited for spelling
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