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    Default '79 Factory Air Wiring??

    I'm the second owner of my 52000mi. '79 Capri. The lady who bought the car new swears the A/C is factory installed and the only service to it has been a recharge by the dealership where she bought it new. When I replaced the heater core, I found the wiring has been spliced into for the compressor control at the heater controls. The new wires run out to the ambient temp sensor and then on to the compressor. They are spliced into the harness using the cheap blue inline squeeze connectors. There are no other wires in the harness that could even have been used to control the compressor. I will clean up the mess and solder the wires as they should have been done from the start. What gets me is there are no cut, terminated, or dangling wires anywhere. Has anybody ever seen this on a '79??
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    Look for the wire under the dashpad at the drivers side, under the dash speaker.
    There's a wire with several connectors [for controles of the hatch glass heater as well]
    A wireset just for the AC will connect onto it.
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    Thanks TwisterSpecial, I will have to get the schematics out tonight and look for that connector. What I have now is garbage, especially in a totally unmolested 1 owner car. Who knows, maybe I will have to find a used harness to do it right. Very nice Twister. Just read your car's story!
    Last edited by wgt500; 03-25-2009 at 12:39 PM.
    '67 Shelby GT500 428 4spd. (owned for 32yrs. SOLD 11/26/2011. A sad day $$$$. Pics in my album!

    '83 Capri 5.0 4spd. ASC McLaren Sport Pkg.(1983 Indy 500 Speed Week Motorcraft sponsored parade car) Original paint. Pics in my album! (SOLD 11/11/2017)

    '79 Capri RS 5.0 52,000mi. Total molestation! (1300 man/hrs.) Build Pics in 3 albums!

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