Thread: Raising aircon higher

I'd be more interested in having a unit where the front seat passenger could have toes, feet and ankles on the end of their legs. The early Defender under dash option is a nightmare.

For the venting the vent arangement on the Puma could be made with a little fabrication and ducting. There is plenty of empty space inside the facia below the parcel shelf for ducting and flexible tubing.

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Originally Posted by Sith

Fit this , remove your under dash rubbish and enjoy ...CONCORD PLUS (12 Volt) GREY UNIVERSAL EVAPORATOR [00-EV 2228] - $392.70 : Autofrost

Any idea how good they work? They seem a bit too cheap to be good.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I'd be more interested in having a unit where the front seat passenger could have toes, feet and ankles on the end of their legs. The early Defender under dash option is a nightmare.


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Which is why I've removed mine and uninformed is removing his.

I don't think I ran mine at all last summer, but then our maximum temp was only 33.9*.
We'd be lucky to be that blessed again

I thought about this annoying little problem when i had my 130 not so long ago. I reckon the best idea would not be complicated, and may work... It would basically involve relocating the fuse box elsewhere, possibly under the drivers seat or under the bonnet. Then i would mount the evaporator where the fuse box was, and manufacture two pipes up into The dash area and convert the dash with a bit of plate "county style" and insert two bog standard aircon vents.

It sounded good to me back then, but now i no longer have the 130, i hope someone might be able to see the possibility...

the footwell clutter was a reason I never got aircon. with the deefer. Have often thought that the best solution would be to rework the heater box to fit a condenser in. Would lose the recirc function for the air but given the dust sealing properties of a defender recirc air is a pipedream!
The demist tubes could be reworked into face outlet vents with a T and ballvents. Minimal disturbance of the dash and retain the passengers legs below the knees! I think it would work.

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Originally Posted by schuy1

the footwell clutter was a reason I never got aircon. with the deefer. Have often thought that the best solution would be to rework the heater box to fit a condenser in. Would lose the recirc function for the air but given the dust sealing properties of a defender recirc air is a pipedream!
The demist tubes could be reworked into face outlet vents with a T and ballvents. Minimal disturbance of the dash and retain the passengers legs below the knees! I think it would work.

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I think an evaporator would work better, but if you want supplementary heat, go for it

All jokes aside, the factory air conditioning evap. is in a bigger version of the current heater box.
What we had here was Australian developed/fitted.

I knew what I meant! However yes opposite fuctions and yes I have seen the factory set up but never really seen a good diagram. It also does away with the front vents operation by putting the outlets in there?