Mike's 5K A/C sings Hallelujah!

["Mike White" <MIKE.WHITE@law.utah.edu>]

First and foremost, to the contributing members of the list, 

            THANKYOUVERYMUCHFRIENDS!
            
As I'm sure all of you were intently watching with anxiousness as I 
worked through my A/C problems, I now give the full report:

Problem:  A/C would not come out dash vents unless fan was on "Low"

Procedure:  Well as you all know, I mistakenly opened the FI computer 
up, after reading something about removing the right kick panel to 
find the A/C programmer.  

    The next day after reporting my experience, I was directed to the 
proper place for the A/C Programmer.  I then found it the next 
evening, and opened it up.  As was expected, the solder on several of 
the solenoids was cracked.

That night I tried to repair it at a friends house by just remelting 
the solder.  Unfortunately, I didn't have any rosin-core solder at 
the time, and just remelting the existing solder was not enough.

Day after, I got some solder, and then tried to use my ancient iron 
to repair it.  Unfortunately my soldering iron does not melt solder, 
so it was ixna fixna there.

Next day, I repaired the solder joints, deciding to remelt all of 
the joints on the four solenoids since I was there already.  I then 
pulled out my 6v lantern battery and applied power to the different 
solenoids.  All of them click-clacked properly.

While remounting the unit and tracing the vacuum lines to the various 
gizmos to where they attach, I noted that two of them had been 
disconnected by the JOKE-OUTFIT which installed my last stereo a few 
months ago.

I then remounted the unit, turned the ignition to "On" and tried it 
out.  Now only air comes out the dash.  My response was to get that 
sickening feeling when you know you're going to spend $200 on 
something that was easy to fix but you're too stupid to do something 
so simple as solder some joints and you screwed it up oh great!  

In a moment of sheer genius, you realize that the car probably has to 
be _running_ to get a vacuum.  Start car.  IT WORKS!  You are the 
smartest man in the world you fixed your A/C and now you don't have 
to pay money to get a new one and even Einstein would be proud of you 
even if Walter Matteau didn't look or sound a thing like him in that 
IQ movie since maybe Meg Ryan was the only thing that held that 
together in the first place!

In the almost 5 YEARS that we've owned the car, I had COLD AIR BLOW 
ON MY FACE AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED!

Well, sir, that is my report.  I'm not longer signing off as cold 
feet, hot head; I'm signing off as "Cold wherever I want to be."

- Mike White 

[Mail: mike.white@law.utah.edu   -   mwhite@eng.utah.edu]
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