By Nate Risch
11/20/2017
We’re rounding third and heading for home with the a/c retrofit into the ’79 Euro 635CSi. Last week I used nitrogen to pressure-test the nearly-assembled a/c system, and after a few tweaks, I pronounced it leak-free. The only thing preventing me from charging it up was having the wiring in place to switch everything on.
By Nate Risch
11/13/2017
With all due respect to the late Antoine Dominique “Fats” Domino Jr., who died a week before we hit the road for O’Fest New Orleans, I am a drivin’ fool, and Oktoberfest was the excuse, as usual. I suppose the proper tribute would have been to load the CD player with Fats Domino albums, but I was at the wheel of Nancy Drew, the blue Z8, and I removed the CD deck some time ago in order to make room for a tire-repair kit. (Hey, you never can tell.)
By Nate Risch
11/13/2017
Last week, the newly-built a/c hoses went into the shark, providing the Interstate highway connecting the cities of the compressor, evaporator, condenser, and drier. The next step is leak-testing that highway, because—well, actually, that’s a terrible metaphor. Forget I mentioned it.
By Nate Risch
11/07/2017
A pair of hazard lights began blinking steadily. Soon every car in the vicinity joined in, lighting up the nighttime horizon like dense woodland dotted with fireflies. That was the first indication that something wasn’t right; the second was a twenty-foot wall of fire rising from an SUV stopped on the side of the highway.
By Nate Risch
11/06/2017
Last week, the evaporator assembly finally went into the ’79 Euro 635CSi. Together with the compressor and condenser, this meant that the Big Three pieces of air-conditioning hardware were installed.
