87 LeSabre AC parts?

[adoldfield]

My mechanic is trying to find AC parts for a customer's 87 LeSabre. Specifically, the high pressure/discharge hose (aluminum) for the AC. Any suggestions for a source or salvage yard is much appreciated!

Alan Oldfield

[pfloro]

I've never dealt this this company but perhaps that have or can "make up" the needed A/C hose... 

I wouldn't opt for a used hose...

 

Cold Hose

 

Paul

[adoldfield]

Thank you!

[NTX5467]

Key points . . . are the hoses leaking?  Does the system have R134a in it yet?

 

IF the hose itself is leaking, then it can be replaced with new hose and an "A/C hose clamp" used rather than the factory crimps, unless the local auto supply (which can also build/repair hoses) can crimp it.  In the late 1960s, there were NO pre-made a/c hoses in GM, just parts to build them with.  As in the fitting on the back of the compressor, the fittings to the condenser and evaporator and drier, and such.  Plus bulk hose and the different a/c hose clamps.  Same way on new vehicles from back then, too.

 

There used to be many aftermarket a/c parts companies (Murray, ACDelco, and others) which sold non-OEM hose assys., BUT in the gack of those paper catalogs, they also had ILLUSTRATIONS of the various fittings for sale, too.  A/C mufflers, too!  ACDelco, specifically, had one such catalog for the hose assys and the parts to build them, too!  That stuff should STILL be around, but even back then, it took somebody who knew about them to get one of those catalogs.  

 

You might advise the shop to contact a parts jobber which carries the full-line of ACDelco parts AND has access to the various ACDelco paper catalogs.  Mostly in metro areas, I suspect, which service mainly private shops and a few dealerships.

 

Just some thoughts,

NTX5467

[rocketraider]

From a 1974 Olds Chassis Parts catalog. Pretty sure the other Divisions had these too.

 

The Olds catalog does list some premade hose assemblies but the gist I get is that the mechanics were expected to be able to fabricate hoses from stock fittings in the parts room.

 

 

[NTX5467]

Similar image in the '69 Chevy parts book, too.  Similar in the Buyer's Guide/Illustrations rear section of the ACDelco paper parts book on a/c parts.