Gday all!
Over the past 8 or so years of my current hj61 60 ownership, I have put up with, troubleshoot, repaired, and made a lot of excuses for poor airflow and aircond performance in hot weather… a few months ago, I decided to fix this - properly….
A bit of history (most of this is already on Mud under various headings of what I did over the weekend / help me threads / what do you think threads!!)
First, there wasn’t much air out of the vents… I sucked a lot of stuff out of the evaporator with a garden blower in reverse through a hole I cut in the fan side of the evaporator box! - this did improve flow! And stayed like this for a couple of years… then the fan started playing up. I replaced bushes / turned the commutator on a lathe / sanded / cleaned etc, but in the end I bought a new, genuine fan from Leon Caitlin in Aus… next, the aircond really struggled in hot weather - basically not working at all at idle and not much better at high speeds (this is in mid to high 40degrees Celsius temps). I decided on a new parallel flow condenser - recommended by Mr Landcruiser which required stripping the front of the car, customer brackets to mount it and new aircond hoses. I showed my aircond guy the condenser and he made up hoses with connections on one end and extra hose on the end. This ended up okay, but not ideal as I had to flip the condenser to clear other bits (aux battery tray / Intercooler piping etc)
Over the past 8 or so years of my current hj61 60 ownership, I have put up with, troubleshoot, repaired, and made a lot of excuses for poor airflow and aircond performance in hot weather… a few months ago, I decided to fix this - properly….
A bit of history (most of this is already on Mud under various headings of what I did over the weekend / help me threads / what do you think threads!!)
First, there wasn’t much air out of the vents… I sucked a lot of stuff out of the evaporator with a garden blower in reverse through a hole I cut in the fan side of the evaporator box! - this did improve flow! And stayed like this for a couple of years… then the fan started playing up. I replaced bushes / turned the commutator on a lathe / sanded / cleaned etc, but in the end I bought a new, genuine fan from Leon Caitlin in Aus… next, the aircond really struggled in hot weather - basically not working at all at idle and not much better at high speeds (this is in mid to high 40degrees Celsius temps). I decided on a new parallel flow condenser - recommended by Mr Landcruiser which required stripping the front of the car, customer brackets to mount it and new aircond hoses. I showed my aircond guy the condenser and he made up hoses with connections on one end and extra hose on the end. This ended up okay, but not ideal as I had to flip the condenser to clear other bits (aux battery tray / Intercooler piping etc)
