[DeTomaso] Air Conditioner Compressor Belt Tension

[Asa Jay Laughton]

The A/C is mounted very differently on all other vehicles with a 351C.  
The Pantera mounting is unique.  It's -not- actually a problem on any 
other Ford product with a 351C installed.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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J. Sean Keane wrote:
> I have no doubt that everyone who has responded to my question is right, 
> but I find this situation very surprising.  This has to be a problem for 
> every car with a 351 Cleveland, not just the Pantera.  Adjusting the 
> tension in a belt is such a routine maintenance task, how on earth could 
> they have made it so difficult?  Bad Ford!
>
> Thanks to everyone for making me aware of the possible fixes.  I haven't 
> decided yet whether I'll buy the upgraded idler pulley, or switch to a 
> rotary compressor and eliminate it completely.  But at least now I know 
> my options.
>
> Regards,
>
> J. Sean Keane
>
> Charles Engles wrote:
>   
>> Dear J. Sean,
>>
>>
>>               I think that you are describing the stock AC belt pulley 
>> tensioner?    You don't have the PPC upgrade?
>>
>>                If it is stock, then it is perfectly normal for it to 
>> appear to be impossible to loosen, adjust and retighten.  It is not 
>> impossible.  It is just so much of a PITA, that you will be motivated 
>> to buy the modified piece from PPC.    I adjusted mine once twenty 
>> years ago and quickly bought the modified piece and marveled at how 
>> much better it worked and was fabricated than the stock unit.   It has 
>> been so long since I did it that I can only recall you will likely 
>> need to gain some access to the nut away from you in the cockpit by 
>> jacking the car up and coming at it from below and behind.  It is 
>> doable, but the pain, the pain (in the ass...).   Two people do make 
>> it easier, but one can do it with enough profanity.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>                             Stiff upper lip,  Chuck Engles
>>
>>     
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