i was wondering if anybody has had to bleed the lines to install a cam. i went to the street illusions page and they rotated the conderser. now on a different install page from another guy... he said he tried this method and the lines started to bend and leak so please share with me how you dealt with the AC on your cam install so ill know whether to take my car to have the AC discharged or not. thanks

 

personally, i didnt discharge mine before. i just rotated the condenser up and out of the way like on the site you mentioned. funny thing is, i managed to break one of the lines while reinstalling my radiator, so it all leaked out anyway if i were to do it again, i think id have it discharged. jmo

 

discharged mine just to be on the safe side. besides it would be good for your a/c to have it recharged anyways.

thomas

 

My a/c survived!

 

I followed that install guide for mine and just carefully moved the coil up out of the way, I didn't discharge it. The line did bend a little and it did feel like if you tried to move it to quickly you could break the line.

 

Doing the cam and header thing now myself. It worked fine for me too. A couple of pics below. I used one of the radiator cover bolts to hold the breaker bar. This moved it just enough so that I didnt bend any lines.

http://community.webshots.com/user/poormanz28

Jeff D.

 

Discharged mine

 

I have used the "rotate" method several times now without problem.

 

I'm going to try the rotate way and if it breaks, it breaks. Besides, I think there is a 25 grand fine for "knowingly" discharging your a/c yourself. Or something outrageous like that. At least mine would be "accidental" lol.

 

a friend of mine has a machine that sucks it out so im not worried about that. i just dont want to waste more time than i have to since this window i have to work with is quite small...only 3 days at the very most!