Vintage Air?

[KatahGii]

Ok so either mine didn’t come with air conditioning or a previous owner pulled it. Has anyone used the vintage air universal kit or is there anywhere online to buy a full air system?

[AMC86Kid]

Can you provide a pic or link of the kit you are talking about ? 

[KatahGii]

57 minutes ago, AMC86Kid said:

Can you provide a pic or link of the kit you are talking about ? 

Something like this should be the easiest to install and shouldn’t be too hard to route into my stock vents and starch my stock controls.
 

Link

[Eagle]

My '87 had aftermarket air in it when I bought it. I believe the brand is American Air, which I think was owned by AMC, and I'm fairly sure it was a dealer0installed kit. It works okay, but on mine the kit didn't include a new control panel so the operation isn't exactly like factory air. The truck is at a friend's house at the moment so I can't provide a photo, but if your truck doesn't have factory air -- that's what my dashboard looks like. I don't remember what turns on the a/c function -- must be a separate toggle switch for the compressor.

 

[KatahGii]

1 minute ago, Eagle said:

My '87 had aftermarket air in it when I bought it. I believe the brand is American Air, which I think was owned by AMC, and I'm fairly sure it was a dealer0installed kit. It works okay, but on mine the kit didn't include a new control panel so the operation isn't exactly like factory air. The truck is at a friend's house at the moment so I can't provide a photo, but if your truck doesn't have factory air -- that's what my dashboard looks like. I don't remember what turns on the a/c function -- must be a separate toggle switch for the compressor.

 

Since you said yours doesn’t have ac controls I think mine came with factory air because it comes with the controls for it. Must’ve been removed. I’m not much of a junk yard parts kinda guy and it looks like pulling stock ac systems is pretty hard that’s why I’m looking for an aftermarket version.

[Eagle]

You're looking at pulling the dashboard anyway, unless you buy one of those kits that just hangs beneath the dash. If the evaporator is still in your heater box, it's probably shot by now and will need to be replaced. And the reality is, you might as well replace the heater coil while you have the dash out, because it's going to go soon. I had to replace the heater coil in my '88 XJ several years ago because it started peeing on the passenger side carpet.

 

[KatahGii]

Just now, Eagle said:

You're looking at pulling the dashboard anyway, unless you buy one of those kits that just hangs beneath the dash. If the evaporator is still in your heater box, it's probably shot by now and will need to be replaced. And the reality is, you might as well replace the heater coil while you have the dash out, because it's going to go soon. I had to replace the heater coil in my '88 XJ several years ago because it started peeing on the passenger side carpet.

 

All it has for the ac is the controls. There are no parts at all for the ac that’s the part that pains me. I was thinking for now I’d just get an under dash one. Just asking if anyone has used aftermarket ac systems that can fit in the vehicle like it’s been there since day one if you know what I mean:)

[AMC86Kid]

You can fit almost any AC system under the hood but you got to do modifications to get a lot of it to fit and look nice 

so no I don’t think there’s anything that’s gonna be easy to just bolt right up