So recently I got a new job and picked up a truck to be my DD. After 7 years of driving my cruiser every day and about 70k miles it was time for her to have a break. It sat for a while at my parents while I got settled, recently when I brought it up I found my AC stopped working. After some digging I found that the AC controller wasn't working properly, I found this out by just connecting my compressor to the battery directly. All the pressures on the AC are right and I am currently bypassing the AC controller by jumping the main power wire to the line going to the compressor.
My question is, how bad is doing this? Basically the ac compressor is just turning on with the AC switch. I can't really think of a reason how this would hurt things, apart from a pressure spike trashing the compressor. Am I overlooking something or is this a decent temporary fix until I can source a new AC controller?
My question is, how bad is doing this? Basically the ac compressor is just turning on with the AC switch. I can't really think of a reason how this would hurt things, apart from a pressure spike trashing the compressor. Am I overlooking something or is this a decent temporary fix until I can source a new AC controller?