1967 Valiant Slant 6 Missing the A/C Compressor

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A friend of mine just bought a clean 67 Valiant 4 door with a slant 6 and factory a/c. Everything is there except the compressor and the bracket. Anyone know what modern compressor will work and who might have a bracket?
 
I posted within the last 6 months all the brackets I know of to mount a Sanden on a slant engine. The factory Volare brackets are cheapest if you can find. If you don't have power steering, it is easy to fit a bracket to that pad on the block. The factory RV2 compressor is cheapest, but a big, heavy beast. Most rodders use Sanden.
 
Which compressor does he want to use?
I should have the brackets for the old style pump...looks like a lawnmower engine.
might have a set for the Sanden, I'd have to dig.

I know the 79 and up F and M slant six used the Sanden. Any U-pull-its in your 'hood?
 
He is not concerned with originality so a bracket that could use the sanden compressor would be best.


Jimacuda said:
Which compressor does he want to use?I should have the brackets for the old style pump...looks like a lawnmower engine.might have a set for the Sanden, I'd have to dig.I know the 79 and up F and M slant six used the Sanden. Any U-pull-its in your 'hood?
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I know the 79 and up F and M slant six used the Sanden
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The Sanden (called "Sankyo" at that time) compressor was used briefly in '78 and may have snuck its way into a few '79 and later vehicles, but most of these cars used the Nippondenso C171, a different (and cheaper, and not as good, though not awful) round-body compressor. Brackets and mounting are not the same between the Sanden and the Nippondenso.
 
slantsixdan said:
The Sanden (called "Sankyo" at that time) compressor was used briefly in '78 and may have snuck its way into a few '79 and later vehicles.
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Sounds like I lucked out in finding the Sanden bracket on a ~79 Volare slant in the junkyard. I would have grabbed the Super Six intake too, but it was long gone. I couldn't find my post where I listed all slant brackets I have seen (Charlie's was one). A company like Classic Air shows brackets on their website, but a faint picture so hard to tell exactly how it fits (perhaps "not avail" today). Easiest would be to mount on the pwr steering pump pad (if no p.s.) Syed in Malaysia posted photos of a custom bracket he made like that. You can get a "York to Sanden" adapter on ebay that should fit like Syed's by drilling a few holes in the baseplate. Get one with the adjustable arm, since I doubt you could tension it with another component. I recall that the power steering pump on my 69 slant had its own pulley (factory AC car).
 
slantsixdan said:
The Sanden (called "Sankyo" at that time) compressor was used briefly in '78 and may have snuck its way into a few '79 and later vehicles, but most of these cars used the Nippondenso C171, a different (and cheaper, and not as good, though not awful) round-body compressor. Brackets and mounting are not the same between the Sanden and the Nippondenso.
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The 79 super six I have sitting in the shop right now, as well as every 78-80 F body I've had that used the small round compressor was a Sankyo. Thats at least 8 or 9 78-80 slants from F bodies, all with power steering.
 

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Jimacuda said:
The 79 super six I have sitting in the shop right now, as well as every 78-80 F body I've had that used the small round compressor was a Sankyo. Thats at least 8 or 9 78-80 slants from F bodies, all with power steering.
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Hope ya snagged and squirrelled away at least some of the bracket setups!
 
Post #9 looks like the Sanden bracket I grabbed. There was an outer sub-bracket that held a Saginaw power steering pump (where the holes are). For hose fittings, best to get a Sanden with #8 & #10 O-ring fittings, like all modder's use.
 
When I put a/c back in my cr I went with the Sanden. I went to all the pull-a-parts around till I found the brackets off an 85ish Dodge truck with a /6. I had the shorten the brackets to get it under the hood and thru the header. Good luck
 
redlinegw said:
He is not concerned with originality so a bracket that could use the sanden compressor would be best.
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I should be able to check for that over the next few days. I'll let you know what I find.:cheers:
 
With the FMJ brackets, most would also need the 3 groove crank pulley (or 2 grooves if no p.s.). I grabbed that also from the Volare, I recall.
 
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