Aircon Condensor O-Ring Sizes

Tourist · 11th June 2019, 19:41

Hello All,

I've got a bit of a job on tomorrow, after a very successful trip to the scrapper today. I found a 65k mile car identical to mine, same trim spec, colour, engine etc., only 490 cars later on the production line.

It yielded a wealth of handy parts, but most specifically the front radiator/intercooler/condensor assembly to replace the bent items on my car that I mentioned in another thread. I also finally found a replacement rear bumper in the right colour, with parking sensors :-)

Tomorrow I'm taking the front bumper and other bits off my car to swap the parts over, but I gather that replacing the O-Rings for the AC pipes into the condensor is not a bad plan to guard against leaks. There are quite a few AC specialists locally so hopefully if someone could be kind enough to tell me the sizes I need, I can purchase them before I take the car apart.

One other question - is there any way to tell if indeed my AC system is empty? The AC has stopped cooling and when I took it in 2 years ago to get the AC regassed it was apparently empty so I suspect it must be again, but if I can't be sure the best thing is probably to take it to a specialist and have it evacuated.

Cheers for any help :-)

11th June 2019, 19:41	#1
Tourist Loves to post 2004 Rover 75 Tourer CDTi Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Fulbourn, Cambridge Posts: 455 Thanks: 105 Thanked 123 Times in 101 Posts	Aircon Condensor O-Ring Sizes Hello All, I've got a bit of a job on tomorrow, after a very successful trip to the scrapper today. I found a 65k mile car identical to mine, same trim spec, colour, engine etc., only 490 cars later on the production line. It yielded a wealth of handy parts, but most specifically the front radiator/intercooler/condensor assembly to replace the bent items on my car that I mentioned in another thread. I also finally found a replacement rear bumper in the right colour, with parking sensors :-) Tomorrow I'm taking the front bumper and other bits off my car to swap the parts over, but I gather that replacing the O-Rings for the AC pipes into the condensor is not a bad plan to guard against leaks. There are quite a few AC specialists locally so hopefully if someone could be kind enough to tell me the sizes I need, I can purchase them before I take the car apart. One other question - is there any way to tell if indeed my AC system is empty? The AC has stopped cooling and when I took it in 2 years ago to get the AC regassed it was apparently empty so I suspect it must be again, but if I can't be sure the best thing is probably to take it to a specialist and have it evacuated. Cheers for any help :-)