Classic Auto Air in 67 Barracuda Factory Non AC

str12-340 said
Just installed this kit in my 1970 Dart. The position problem with the temp slide seems to be universal and Classic doesn't seem bothered by it, or interested in fixing it. My temp slide seems to work correctly now that I modified the wire to provide full travel. On my car when I tried to put their adapter on the dash defrost vent above the controls and then tried to install their hose it all interfered with the function slide - I got rid of their adapter, installed a section of original hose and ran their smaller hose up into it. It all works fine at this point. The other big issue that I ran into is that the bracket on the box that is toward the inside of the car was impossible to mount because there was no way to get to the top hole to drill into the cowl without removing the whole dash frame from the car. I turned their bracket around did some bending, and added a bracket to the cowl so that the holes could be drilled through the glove box hole.

I didn't like their glove box so I took a later model plastic glove box and modified it to fit and then mounted their control box (where all the wires go) inside the glove box as well as the relay.

There were also belt clearancing issues with the compressor at the thermostat housing and the water pump neck fin (just one). The brackets came from Bouchilon (printed right on them) and Bouchilon knew about these needs and got me going. The big aggravation to me is that the compressor has 2 belt grooves and the crank pulley has 2 grooves for them but they don't line up so you can only use one belt and Classic and Bouchilon both think this is just fine ((grrrr)). I will eventually do a bunch of work to move the crank pulley out so both belts can be used, but then you have to space the water pump pulley (shallower pulley) and the power steering forward so that they line up with the crank. This by the way is on a 1970 motor with the aluminum water pump so your 68 would be completely different.

All in all I have had this installed and fully operating for 2 months and maybe 500 miles and it works great, but a Perfect Fit??? Hell NO!!!

Thanks for the info. Did you test the temp slider while watching the water valve? If so is it doing the same deal where it only needs to slide halfway to go from fully open to fully closed (or vice versa) and the rest of the travel does absolutely nothing?

I think what they did was create the potentiometer slider by using the perch for the upper slider, which is further from the attachment to the heater control mechanism than the bottom slider perch is. So it works perfectly for the top slider and doesn't leave you enough room for the bottom slider. Modifying the wire gives you full slider travel but the issue seems to be that the potentiometer was designed for half slider travel so the second half of travel in the temp slider doesn't do anything to the water valve.

I was able to get the bracket to work on my 68 Cuda. Wound up having to use a 90* drill with a drill bit to get a hole started and then I ran the self tapper they supplied in after that. The new bracket is nice because it's way more stout than the old looking strap they used to use. I was also able to attach the relay to it.

Got the firewall plate installed yesterday. What an ill fitting turd that thing is. That was definitely a two person job with one person having to twist and push the plate with all their might to get it to line up with the factory holes.

I'm fully expecting every single step to fight me as much as the previous steps have so the pulley alignment will be no surprise.

Where did you wind up installing your ecu? I put mine above the kick panel on the passenger side.