John Boyd

Anyone have any experience installing AC on a Chrysler Airflow or similar car? Not a hot rod, just a stock, driver-quality cruiser that I want to drive cross-country in relative comfort. Engine (8-cyl in-line flathead) and transmission (3-speed with overdrive) don't change. Here's what I've found so far: I will probably need to convert to 12v I can buy a condenser made for old cars -- comes with attached fan; intended to be mounted under the floor but in a good breeze. I like that it's less visible and doesn't preheat the radiator air flow. I can find an evaporator unit that includes a heater. So I can install the interior components where my heater currently lives. I'll need to figure out louvers and hose routing myself. I want a modern R134a compressor, Sanden I think they are called, or clone -- much smaller than older York or Harrison compressors, also allegedly smoother and quieter. I'll have to remove my 6v positive ground generator and fabricate brackets to mount a 1-wire-style alternator and the AC compressor. It's this last step where I really need advice. Anyone solved it? A photo would be great. Thanks.

Very timely, John. I just bought a C17 (used, couldn't find a new one) and the booster is with it, but in the trunk. Is the rubber gaiter on your later photo correct? That is, it leaves part of the shaft uncovered? Thanks.

Faxon auto literature has some manuals for 35 Chrysler. I don't know whether they cover window hardware. In the DeSoto and Chrysler Body Manuals, it's covered, but the descriptions and drawings are all for 1934. Different, as you found, from 1935. http://www.faxonautoliterature.com/Search.aspx?c=182114

This one should go 60 if it has overdrive. http://m.ebay.com/itm/311744231099?_trkparms=pageci:2fd6bee3-b52c-11e6-a3f2-005056aa0556|parentrq:a96c732e1580a2a405a1a044ffeb4996|iid:5&_mwBanner=1

Huge differences. For both Desoto and Chrysler. I haven't seen a body manual for 35 and later, but the door hardware is very different from 34.

The car is a C9 coupe, by the way.

Here's a bit more. These photos illustrate the craftsmanship of John Spinks, who also contributes to this forum and the ACA Yahoo group. Four of them show how to make up the window roller (in his case, he appears to have had the bracket) from a brake hose and brass welding rod. In P1060915 you can see his reproduction roller assembly reflected in the ventilator division strip. It is indeed attached with two screws to two of the four holes in the garnish support. Good luck!

I'm uploading a couple photos of my 36 DeSoto 4-door garnish support. It's a little different from your coupe, but it does carry a window frame roller similar to the one visible on the door frame in your photo. Mine is mounted inside the door cavity on the garnish support. Next to it on the garnish support is an interlock tab that has to do with the side glass/ventilator movement. I think the missing part is probably a roller assembly to correspond with the one on the outside of your door. The few roller assemblies I have seen have only two bolts. So either your missing one is different, or provision has been made to mount it at lower and higher positions. On my car, one of the rubber rollers had deteriorated and fallen off, leaving a risk of metal-to-metal contact on the window frame or glass. That could explain why yours may have been removed in the past. -John Boyd