HI this is my first post here and I need a little help to get my 68 Polara back on the road, today the a/c pulley siezed up and both belts snapped. I managed to free the pulley with some squirts of WD40 but it only goes so far before hitting something and wont turn any further. The AC system wasnt working anyway so I'm considering removing the compressor and relative parts and fitting a bypass pulley. Any advice or tips on this would be great, also any ideas where I can get the correct fitting bypass pulley?? Also any ideas how this happened lack of lubrication or something??? any help cheers!

 

You compressor probably siezed up. Take it off and just run shorter belts. You should be able to route them crank pulley to water pump pulley to alternator pulley.

 

get pullies and brackets from a non a/c car

 

Why not fix the A/C and get it working? Sounds to me like the clutch is shot. Summer is coming, after all.

 

took the compressor off in the end to see what was up, and stripped it apart, turns out one piston rod had snapped and sent pieces of metal all inside the chambers and siezed it up, which then burned the clutch out. All in all a total mess, I spent the day, taking out all the internal parts, so now its just the crank spinning freely without any compressor pistons. This has solved the problem, but now no a/c for a while until a new compressor and clutch is fitted.
thanks for the tips will defintiely get the a/c working again sometime.

 

Great, so your on the road again.

 

yep will be soon, as soon as I get the new belts :-)