Hi All,
My aircon is noisy and through reading this forum I have determined it is the aircon clutch bearing. I have a new bearing and for the last 2 days have been trying to remove the clutch plate (which I have probably stuffed by this point :-( )
Things I have tried so far
- Leveraging top and bottom while tapping a longer ten mm bolt inserted into the central shaft.
- Using 3 machine grade M5 bolts and screwing them into the 3 threaded holes tightening each in turn (ended up wrecking the thread in each hole)
- tapping the plate edge wise to try to free it.
- Lots of WD40
I have checked and unlike some other model aircons there is no circlip holding the plate on and there is no over sized thread to allow a larger bot to push the clutch off.
One thought I had was to heat the plate or the shaft up. it would be easier to heat up the shaft as I could just screw in a bolt and heat the bolt either with a torch or weld on the end of it while inserted. However I'm guessing this would make it tighter rather than loser but it may break the bond?
Any more ideas?