{"id":3299,"date":"2018-05-23T22:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2018-06-01T22:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T02:52:54","slug":"air-conditioning-hose-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/2018\/05\/23\/air-conditioning-hose-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Air conditioning hose connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our updated air conditioning system will use the R-134a refrigerant instead of the older R-12 that was in the original 1972 version. R-134a will itself be phased out in the next decade or so, but until then, it’s the best choice for aftermarket restomod projects.<\/p>\n

The basic layout is similar to older systems with a compressor, condenser, and evaporator linked together with various hose sizes.<\/p>\n

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The technology of refrigerant hose fittings continually evolves. One easy-to-install product line is EZ Clip<\/em> manufactured by Eaton. It does require special crimping pliers but otherwise can be handled comfortably on the work bench.<\/p>\n

Vintage Air brands the Eaton products and assigns them new part numbers. They offer a “universal” kit — guaranteed to fit nothing in the Universe — for $360, but it doesn’t contain the right fittings for our application.<\/p>\n

We elected to go back to the source — that is, Eaton part numbers — and look for a master distributor that could provide a broader range of fittings and also beat or at least match Vintage Air’s complete kit pricing.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Hose Warehouse<\/a> carries a complete Eaton EZ Clip line with very competitive distributor pricing. Here’s what we need.<\/p>\n

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The total price is in line with Vintage Air’s complete kit and this time we get exactly what we need. Note that four items (lines 23-24 and 26-27) are not Eaton products and will be obtained directly from Vintage Air. <\/p>\n

The green highlight cells show the clip\/cage individual prices … strangely they are less expensive<\/em> than buying the kits (lines 7-8, 11-12, and 15-16)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our updated air conditioning system will use the R-134a refrigerant instead of the older R-12 that was in the original 1972 version. R-134a will itself be phased out in the next decade or so, but until then, it’s the best choice for aftermarket restomod projects. The basic layout is similar...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-temperature-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krissmotors.com\/XJ6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}