Help me replace this switch!!!

[rcilurso]

Ok, 3.2 car, A/C dealio in the center console. Has a capillary tube running up to the front of the car and the evaporator or the condensor whichever is up there I forget. How do I get the thing out and more importantly back in without breaking it. I've looked up there and see no place the line runs and before I just dig in and start taking stuff apart I figured one of you guys had had to have done this or seen this before.

[john walker's workshop]

pull off the back cover of the console and you'll get a better view of how it's routed. it goes thru the cowl into the smuggler's box, along with a bunch of wiring from both switches. the tube just pushes into the evaporator. not too hard a job.

[rcilurso]

Thanks John. I'll dig in.

[APKhaos]

This is a delicate operation - the calpilliary tube is aluminum, and very easy to break if you bend it too far.

The first step is to open up the evaporator box, and carefully withdraw the tube from that end. From memory, you should be able to do that without opening the evap box itself. The next step is to follow the run, and detatch the ties that bundle the capilliary tube on its run through to the console, partly from the evap end, partly from the console end.

The obvious question is why? Is the thermostat broken??

[rcilurso]

You know your comment about be careful that aluminum is easy to break

Well when removing the interior for a repaint, I was already well past my I should quit and go inside point when I came upon that switch. I should have looked it up but oh no I just commenced to tearing it out and I heard this "pisst" followed by this blonde haired kid going "oh ****".