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Cabin air filter conversion - LC100 to LX470 (1 Viewer)
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my 2000 and 2005 have the slot.
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Quick update from iPhone. Cover removed, inside evap you can see the solt where the filter goes. Evap filthy, BTW, any tips for cleaning? There's little room to insert a vacuum cleaner or whatever.
Anyway, insane that all it is is a wrong cover that determines whether or not you can insert filters. Quite a hassle to remove the cover, tight fit.
Anyway, insane that all it is is a wrong cover that determines whether or not you can insert filters. Quite a hassle to remove the cover, tight fit.
Mine looks similar to above but has a slot/ door where a filter goes but guess what....no filter and no removable filter holder. I am thinking I will try and build some sort of filter holder that will work in that spot. My evap appeared clean but I plan on using the two step cleaner.
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Cleaner as in the 2-stage a/c cleaner foam that you would normally spray up from the drain?
It was a tight fit and tough, but I finally got it out by only removing the antenna relay. There is a clip/connector on the top left of the cover, which is clicked onto the cover somehow and I could not figure out how to remove it and broke the part of the cover it connects to, no biggie. Getting a new cover anyway.
The dash is screwed onto steel strut braces on the bottom and left, I removed the screws so I could pull on the dash a bit more to get some more room to remove the cover. I finally got it out by moving it down.
I went ahead and ordered the part -60040 and (I think) -60050. Filter cover and clip/holder, as per recommendation by hoser.
I did NOT order filters as they were €35 EACH, which translates to about $100 for the filters only.
I'll look for filters elsewhere, I think someone here got them from Denso or Bosch, I forget.
It would be great if Sandroad chimed in, too.
feddomw said:
Didn't see that you could purchase that, I'll be jumping on that. As far as filters go, I'll do the same thing I do on the FJ and buy a quality home air filter and cut it up to fit the holder...quality filters for cheap.
I would try first with regular household cleaner and see how that goes before investing in the superduper Toy stuff, especially now that it's open. But then again I'll try DIY first for just about anything out of principle so that's just me. I've also used a wand-sucking cleaner on an air compressor to clean nasty stuff very easily in the past, and mine should not damage fins. You could also put a small flex plastic tube on a shop vac and see if you can suck dirt off where it's accessible.
those of you guys who bought covers, holders and filters etc, it would be appreciated if you could post up the final findings as to fit etc, years, p/n and what not so I can put this in the FAQ to help other folks with the same travails.
re_guderian
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So how much air flow restriction is there with the filter(s)? AC = life support...
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e9999 said:those of you guys who bought covers, holders and filters etc, it would be appreciated if you could post up the final findings as to fit etc, years, p/n and what not so I can put this in the FAQ to help other folks with the same travails.
Waiting on the parts, will report back. Figure a week. Anyone have a line on the filters themselves for a reasonable price?
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Update, I received the small filter holder cover today. P/N 88891-60050.
This should click into the new "cooler cover no.1", which I hope to get tomorrow.
Once I am sure it fits, I'll report its p/n, and then will go looking for filters.
Rear a/c lines are fixed too, now, so I can clean out evap, wait for covers and crank a/c.
A/c tech measured output temp at 3.8C, which is I guess somewhere around 40 degrees in your insane Yank non-metric Fahrenheit system?
This should click into the new "cooler cover no.1", which I hope to get tomorrow.
Once I am sure it fits, I'll report its p/n, and then will go looking for filters.
Rear a/c lines are fixed too, now, so I can clean out evap, wait for covers and crank a/c.
A/c tech measured output temp at 3.8C, which is I guess somewhere around 40 degrees in your insane Yank non-metric Fahrenheit system?
I just got a copy of the schematics for the 2000 LC and it shows a small door that would not even be close enough in size to hold a filter that would cover the evaporator. The door on my setup is much larger than pictured below. The part number listed in this thread is for the door only and no filter holder. Might be giving the diy thing a shot...
Doesn't this feel 
to have so many posts?
to have so many posts?
You'd be out $70 bucks if you bought the cleaning kit I showed above and the parts (with filters) from the other pic in my post. Worst case scenario you've got a clean as heck AC system.
And personally I'd try cutting the Cooler Cover #1 so that it could accept the Cooler Cover #2. The tabs that snap the two together are on both covers (even the one that doesn't have the hole for the filters). See pic ...
Or maybe just buy filters and install them behind the Cooler Cover, even if it means removing the cover every 1-2 years.
And personally I'd try cutting the Cooler Cover #1 so that it could accept the Cooler Cover #2. The tabs that snap the two together are on both covers (even the one that doesn't have the hole for the filters). See pic ...
Or maybe just buy filters and install them behind the Cooler Cover, even if it means removing the cover every 1-2 years.
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Doesn't this feel
Yeah, I am the king of thread starters.....
Anyway, for the record, the "small cover" that is p/n ***60 in your diagram, is ***50 from Toyota. I have it waiting for me, still bagged and sealed in the car, while I wait for the dealer to cough up the large cooler cover no. 1, which I ordered (I think) as ***40, as per hoser's guesstimate about 50 postings ago in this thread.
