Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 02:27 pm, by: Haydn Crandell(Haydn)
would anyone have a diagram or where the aircon evaporator is,i know it is behind the dash and it has to come out, or mabe someone knows another reason it wont get cold ,no colder then 14C. other then a leak.
Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 03:30 pm, by: Haydn Crandell(Haydn)
i have had the dye put in it, and seen the leak for myself with the cool yellow glasses then it was reading 4 degrees i have just started noticing it isnt so cold ,he put then thermometer down the vent and at 1500 revs on max it was reading 14 degrees. i will take the evaporator out myself i just want to know what it looks like and where it is. be nice to know if it is rooted though before i go taking it out.cheers
Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 04:30 pm, by: Daniel Riley(Riley_71)
Haydn,
I had my evaporator replaced by a local air con mob down here in august. The part cost $350.
While i did not watch him remove it, i was there when it was in bits. The evaportaor is located behind the glove box, remove it and the black cooler piping, there is a black cover back there somewhere and the evaporator slides in vertically and buts up against the fire wall.
Look under your engine bay and follow the pipes for a rough idea of its location.
It didnt look all that hard to get to, the machanic i used said the whole job including regas only took about 3.5 hours.
As far as i am aware there is not subsitute evaportator that will fit the soarer. so we had to order one from toyota.
Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 09:09 am, by: Andrew Meiers(Acmtt)
The Prado one fits with a small modification, that costs about $350, the Soarer one is $600 plus. The guy that does the Sports and Luxury workshop did mine.
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