A/C Compressor Mounting

[Scott91370]

I saw someone else's thread but didn't want to hi-jack it, so here we are.
The truck I bought had some seriously rigged brackets for a/c with tons of washers and mismatched bolts. I've looked and looked and it's hard to find good pictures/diagrams of a/c brackets, how they mount and the power steering mounts to it. I'm hoping for some help here with my puzzle.
These are what I have and my best guess as to where they go. I still have some gaps but I could be (probably am) missing some of the real spacers.

Unknown brackets in 1st pic

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Pretty sire these are correct

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Holding steering reservoir

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[Scott91370]

Here are the last few pics I have. Could only upload 5 so I split them.

Space circled in red

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From the back

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In this last pic I was wondering if the manifold should have studs or is held on by longer bolts?

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If anybody has one they could take some pics of I'd be forever grateful!!!

 

[76-77-78]

I’m gonna bump this because I also could use some pictures of a working A/C system and all the brackets that go into it.

 

[RoryH19]

I posted pics from my 83 k5 with the factory brackets recently.
I'll look for them.

https://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/a-c-compressor-mounts.29556/#post-576448

 

[Scott91370]

I was able to get this sorted out. I'll post pics this afternoon when I get to my laptop.

 

[Scott91370]

Here is some 'test fitting' to see how parts should look.

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[Scott91370]

Everything in place. Only thing I am not sure of is if there should be a bolt that goes through the bracket & compressor in my first pic where the red arrow is. The rear bracket has a hole in it and the other bracket ha a shoulder that fits in that hole. The compressor doesn't line up so I was thinking no, but the hole in the compressor right by it is threaded - hopefully for a different application.

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[Scott91370]

The bracket in the second pic here goes against the head - once you put it there in the general orientation I have it you can see how the holes line up. It goes on first. You can see the open hole in the first picture, this is one of the places it bolts in.

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I did have to use some shims to get the belts/pulleys to line up. When I say shims, a couple of washers in one place and since I have headers instead of oem manifolds I had to make a 1" spacer out of tube to take up the slack.

I can get more pics this weekend if needed.

 

[militaryjeep]

1986 K20 Suburban with 5.7 Federal emmissions:

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[KingBowzer]

See if this helps you out at all. If not I have a PDF of the Shop Service manual for 86 C10 that I mY be able to set you up with

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