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removing a/c on my 340 #1314759 10/03/12 10:51 PM 10/03/12 10:51 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 162 southern illinois O ozz383 OP member
ozz383 OP member O Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 162 southern illinois	I am thinking about temporaraly removing my ac set-up on my demon. Can I use the same alt. brackets and just get a belt for non ac?

Re: removing a/c on my 340 [Re: ozz383] #1314760 10/04/12 07:43 AM 10/04/12 07:43 AM
Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 755 Rochester, PA (near Pittsburgh... 1 1974 474 Duster super stock
1974 474 Duster super stock 1 Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 755 Rochester, PA (near Pittsburgh...	Need the non-A/C alt bracket. Also needed to change the water pump pulley when I just did one. Sorry to break the news. See ya, Ken

Re: removing a/c on my 340 [Re: 1974 474 Duster] #1314761 10/31/12 10:01 PM 10/31/12 10:01 PM
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 421 New England dcastine mopar
dcastine mopar Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 421 New England	I'm doing the same thing on my 73 Duster, bought the car restored with the AC half installed. I'm yanking it all. My power steering goes around the crank and the water pump, will I need a double groove water pump pulley now? Thanks Dave 7443542-SAM_3865.JPG (52 downloads)

Re: removing a/c on my 340 [Re: dcastine] #1314762 10/31/12 10:18 PM 10/31/12 10:18 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 162 southern illinois O ozz383 OP member
ozz383 OP member O Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 162 southern illinois	Well on my stock 71 set up I was able to leave the pass.side bracket for the ac so that my alt. would have the original mounting point and just got a shorter belt and ran from crank pully to alt. with it and left the other alone. I'd have to ck the length of the belt it was trial and error untill I found one short enough so it would clear the water pump housing. hope this helps. ozz

Re: removing a/c on my 340 [Re: ozz383] #1314763 10/31/12 11:36 PM 10/31/12 11:36 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 15,487 Florida S scratchnfotraction I Live Here
scratchnfotraction I Live Here S Joined: May 2003 Posts: 15,487 Florida	Quote: I am thinking about temporaraly removing my ac set-up on my demon. Can I use the same alt. brackets and just get a belt for non ac? I used to remove both a/c belts and leave everything in place. i would then run a belt on the front groove of a 2 groove alt right to the crank. there is a triangle webbing on the water pump neck you can cut off and file smooth and run 2 belts on the alt right to the crank. its close on 2 belts but 1 belt drops right on in a pinch when a/c clutch goes out. IIRC,a power steering belt will flip over to alt/crank or it may need to be a little bigger. use a string wraped around the pullys to measure. other than that old timer trick it is swap pulleys and alt bracket over to non a/c FYI..not sure this works on an early cast iron wp/pulleys, I think it might but not sure. deff works on later model SB engines. Last edited by scratchnfotraction; 10/31/12 11:39 PM.

Re: removing a/c on my 340 [Re: ozz383] #1314764 11/05/12 03:02 PM 11/05/12 03:02 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 752 North of the Motor City DartGTDan super stock
DartGTDan super stock Joined: May 2004 Posts: 752 North of the Motor City	Quote: I am thinking about temporaraly removing my ac set-up on my demon. Can I use the same alt. brackets and just get a belt for non ac? ozz, I removed all the underhood A/C components from my '71 Dart GT. Very simple and no need for all new brackets/pulleys/etc... Checkout the CarDomain link in my signature. Dan

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