Removal and Installation of Radiator with A/C

Cars fitted with Air Conditioning Remove and refit 26.40.04

WARNING: Under no circumstances must any portion of the air conditioning system be disconnected by anyone other than a qualified refrigeration engineer. Blindness can result if the gas contained within the system comes into contact with eye.

Removing

- Drain the coolant from the radiator. Service and Repair

- Disconnect the battery.

- Remove the bonnet.

- Slacken the clips securing the top hose, bottom hose and expansion pipe to the radiator.

- Disconnect the hoses from the radiator.

- Unclip the cable harness from the top rail.

- Remove the top rail to body and top rail to fan cowl securing nuts/bolts.

- Reposition the cowl from top rail.

- Remove top rail to air conditioning condenser securing bolts and remove the spacers. Unclip the receiver/drier from top rail.

- Remove the receiver/drier to top rail securing bolts and remove the spacers.

- Reposition the top rail from radiator location.

- Remove the air cleaner ram pipe.

- Disconnect the coolant level probe.

- Displace the radiator to gain access to thermostatic switch.

- Note and disconnect cables from switch.

- Lift radiator from car, and recover the foam rubber padding.

Refitting

- Locate radiator in a position to reconnect the thermostatic switch.

- Reposition the radiator into its mounting rubbers and reposition the air conditioning pipes.

- Reconnect the coolant level probe.

- Refit aircleaner ram pipe.

- Align the top rail to the radiator, and fit but do not tighten the securing nuts and bolts.

- Fit the top rail to condenser spacers, and fit but do not tighten the securing nuts and bolts.

- Locate the fan cowl to the top rail.

- Fit nuts and bolts to secure.

- Tighten all the nuts and bolts.

- Align the receiver drier with the top rail, fit the spacers and secure the receiver drier with the fixing bolts.

- Clip the air conditioning pipe and cable harness to the top rail.

- Connect bottom hose, top hose, and the expansion pipe to the radiator.

- Tighten hose clips.

- Refill the radiator with coolant. Service and Repair

- Reconnect the battery.

- Refit the bonnet.