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I recently changed the condenser on my 02 Venture........TWICE! The first try was with a really cheaply made condenser purchased from discountacparts. DON'T buy yours there. Stay away from discountacparts.com.
I purchased a better one from Advance Discount here in Florida and installed it last week and had a shop vacuum and recharged it for me. It's been 4 days now and it's holding up cold so far.
Anyway, it's a fairly simple job. Here's what I remember:
Disconnect positive battery terminal.
Drain engine coolant.
Remove engine mounts (2) from van frame and flip them over backwards.
Remove the hood latch (leave cable connected)
Remove the two bars that connects the frame to the inside fender.
Remove the engine coolant overflow tank
remove air filter cover and filter and accordian hose
Remove upper and lower rad hoses
remove the two brackets that holds the rad
remove the two bolts that holds the fan assembly to the rad (one each end)
unplug fan plug
unhook lines from bracket at bottom of fan assembly.
remove fan assembly.
remove bolts from ac lines to condenser.
remove bracket that holds ac lines to rad (I think it's the rad)
lift rad upwards and away from frame enough to lift condenser out
(I didn't remove the 2 lines that connects to the rad)
Be careful when tightening the bolts of the ac lines to the condenser. Also, replace the "o-ring washers" (or gaskets) on the ac lines. Advance sells an ac gasket kit for like 10 bucks even though you'll only need 2 of the gaskets.
What else can I help you with?
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"http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_the_rear_ac_in_97_chevy_venture_blow_hot_air_when_the_front_ac_blows_cool_air"
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