Tex's Tips for Surviving the Summer Heat Wave

Surviving the summer heat wave. Extreme heat is the primary enemy of your A/C system. To avoid untimely breakdowns and ensure that your Vintage Air system operates at peak efficiency, you must inspect the entire cooling system before heading out for a summer of cruising.
Throughout our 25 years of experience, we have found that common items are often overlooked as causes of air conditioning failure. If you're experiencing a system failure, see our troubleshooting guide in the download section.

Create a mock-up of each universal unit using cardboard

When purchasing a Universal System for a vehicle it is important that you determine if you have the space available to install this unit. We will be able to give you a general guideline as to the capacity of each unit to cool and heat certain vehicles, but we are not looking under your dash. Since each vehicle has unique characteristics under the dash, the salesperson must rely on you, the consumer to tell us what will fit best in your application.
Each Universal Evaporator page has overall dimensional drawings that will represent the outermost measurements of these units. You can use these dimensions to create a cardboard “mockup” of the evaporator. If you can fit your mock-up behind your dash
without any interference, the actual unit will fit just as easily.

Many applications will require slight modifications to the underside of the dash or firewall to make the final installation. Note: Remember most of the vehicles we deal with were never designed to have air conditioning in the first place. It is very important to bear in mind when modifying a vehicle that no one set of standards exist and not everyone will do the installation the same way.t