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How does the ac evaporator come out of the dash unit??? lol

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Black1987Stang

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I got a complete dash unit from my friend's stang and I want to take the evaporator from it. How does it come out? It's outside of the car so it should be easy. Thanks! Sean
 

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If you look on the heater box there are two ridges close together approx where the evaporator would be. This is a cut line. You must cut the heater box open to remove the evaporator.
 

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rockytoohot said:
If you look on the heater box there are two ridges close together approx where the evaporator would be. This is a cut line. You must cut the heater box open to remove the evaporator.
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You serious? Damn Ford engineers....

Well then is there anyway of cleaning out the inside of an evaporator? I took my lines off about 2 years ago and left the open lines exposed and I see a bunch of dust/dirt in the opening. Could I spray in some simple green, hook up a waterhose to one line and backflush it, n switch back and forth till the water runs clear, etc. and then let it dry for a week? I would just be worried about any remaining water hiding in the evaporator and then getting in the ac system.

I'm sure someone had thought of a way to do this safely.....

Flame me all you want for a/c but driving in sweaty, long pants in 100 degree weather ain't fun plus I could care less about the extra weight of it.
 

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sweaty long pants suck...i wish i kept mine, but it was broken anyways
 

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I had the same problem when I had my dash apart, I decided to leave the damn thing in there and simply cut the extruding metal tubes off inside the box with a dremel and sealed the box with a piece of ABS plastic. Of course I'm deleting the A/C, and you want it to work, so don't do what I did! If you wish to clean it out, I would say your method will work, but I might suggest rinsing it out with acetone when you're done to make sure all the water is out (acetone will evaporate...fast!)
 
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just use common sense, there will never be a better time to cut open that box and fix it once the right way, unless of course you enjoy taking the dash out of a fox more than once.....

also consider replacing the heater core while you are there...
 

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good idea with the acetone i might try that n see how that turns out n go from there.
I changed the heater core when i got the car like 4 years ago, only had to since i cracked the joint when i was pulling off the heater hose, did the core swap in a few hours once i got the a/c lines off. Wasn't a pain at all, dash stayed in the car, just pulled back the passenger side corner and got to it from there, also took out the glove box.
 
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