47-55.1 Any AC experts?

[TX3100Guy]

Originally Posted by dsraven

I am not normally a fan of the inline fuse but sometimes they are unavoidable without a bunch of time spent on wiring. those style of plastic fuse holders are the worst in my opinion. they always seem to lose a spring or have a bad connection to the fuse. finding a glass fuse can also be a problem in a small town on saturday late afternoon, lol.

The car in question is a 1969 Jaguar E-Type (XKE) and the entire fuse panel is glass tube fuses. Lucky for me, I have several dozen of them in a variety of amps. The inline fuse was from a previous owner, to be honest I cut it out and wired the AC unit to directly to the same fuse block that the inline fuse was wired to. The inline fuse replacement would require that I removed the evaporator unit to replace the use. This way, all I need to do is remove two thumb screws drop the instrument panel and replace a blown fuse if necessary.

I ended up replacing all the wires from the evap unit to the car. New hot wire to the fuse block, new ground wire to the back of the instrument panel and new wire from the evap unit to the binary switch.