On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:50:05 GMT, NOSPAMrex@REMOVEtxol.net (Rex B) wrote:

>On 8 May 2004 15:14:06 -0700, chip@chipanddebby.com (Chip Stein) wrote:
>
>||"News" <parts@saturnspacecoast.com> wrote in message
>news:<ZD5nc.9348$2f6.385976@twister.tampabay.rr.c om>...
>||> Does anyone know if its possible to remove a shim to adjust to the air gap
>||> on the a/c clutch without removing the compressor. And if not, do you have
>||> to take off the lines or can you just drop it and let it hang, so that the
>||> air gap can be adjusted.
>||>
>||> Thanks
>||
>||yes there are shims if you can get the plate off.
>
>I have the same problem. What does it take to get the plate off?

You need an extractor tool, which varies in design according to the
compresor. The one time I did this, on a '88 Integra, the tool was a "bolt
within a bolt" type(dunno if there's a correct name for them :-)): you
screwed the outer bolt into the center of the clutch plate and then screwed
in the inner bolt to push the plate off its shaft - similar thing to
cotterless cranks on a bicycle.

With that design, it was easy to get at the pulley and use the tool with
the compressor still mounted; if you have to use a tool which is bulkier
and there is not much clearance, you might need to take the compressor off
its mounts. Hmm, that was one of my one-time-use tools - probably still
saved on the job. I just walked into a local A/C shop and asked the guy if
they sold tools, expecting him to say "no, just bring it in" but he asked
me the car model and produced the tool immediately.

BTW, what is the "problem"? Is the clutch squealing on engagement?

Rgds, George Macdonald

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