A/C Issue on 95' Gran Prix

Aug 02, 2006 1 Replies

My girlfriends car just started doing this:



If she is Idle the AC blows out full blast fine, nice and cold. However if she accelerates at all almost all circulation from 75 vents stop, once she lets up off the pedal it goes back to normal. I tested it with Cruise control also and same thing happens when the car goes to accelerate on its own. Also while driving any time you are "Cruising" allot without acceleration it works fine.



It basically comes down to anytime the car is accelerating the A/C stops blowing out air.


-Branden


Brandon,

Sounds like the check valve in the vacuum storage tank has decided to stick in the open position. This check valve keeps the vacuum in the tank from dropping when manifold vacuum drops (which happens during acceleration).

Don't have my manuals handy, but I'll bet that storage tank is in the same place on your GP as it is on my Regal: under the car directly underneath the battery. It is about the size of a softball and shaped similar.

One other possibility - you might also just have a vacuum leak at the connection from the manifold to the plastic pipe to the storage tank. Check the connections (and the short rubber connection hoses) from the vacuum connector (on top of the upper intake right behind the throttle body) to the other hoses.

Regards, Bill Bowen Sacramento, CA

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