WANTED AC BRACKET 1977 FORD COUNTRY SQUIRE

Your omitting revealing the price betrays unusual expense? If so, the seller knew its rarity and this design's superiority to that of those others.
If you couldn't have gotten one at all, CNC custom production would have been suggested. In any case, it's great to know that you could get it

 

I paid 90 dollars for the support bracket and 75 dollars for the rear brace (including shipping). I can't recall the exact price of the compressor; I think it was 275.

EDIT: received the rear brace today. Hubs checked and it's the correct part. More to come.

 

Given the circumstances, it's all worth it.
Wunce upon a time, you could fetch one of those compressors for a 20 dollar bill. If you bought an engine from a junkyard back then, they would sometimes come with the compressor still on it, even if you didn't need one. It was less trouble to let it go, than to remove it for selling. In other words, you'd get it for free.
Those prices, though. How monetary inflation has run away so fast is nothing less than appalling

 

We figured that the cost of everything, which is also going to include the belt, the juice, the receiver-dryer, etc., will be about 600. Seems like a lot to me, but the labor will be free, courtesy of hubs so I guess I shouldn't complain. It cost double to replace the AC components on our 1999 Jaguar.

The more that Squire gets looked over, the more (other) things that would benefit from fixes is discovered. But none of this stuff I'm talking about is major (or mechanical), just minor cosmetic stuff that could be tweaked. Looking back, I think the 11 grand I paid for it was fair. My max bid was 12. I'm glad I didn't pay 12, I didn't anticipate that replacing the AC would cost so much

 

And you got the best, given that a wagon needs plenty more cooling down than a notchback

 

Yes, I remember riding it home when we bought it, it was pretty damn warm in there (early November is still pretty warm in Los Angeles). Without air that wagon will be unbearable. During the Summer is it not uncommon for temps to go beyond 100F.

 

Paul says:

Doghead, I can't agree more, the prices of this stuff these days is ridiculous. I remember going to Pick Your Part back in 80's and kicking the part I'm now paying 100 dollars for in the dirt. What pains me is how these auto place take advantage of people that don't know better. Like trying to have cold A/C.: the car had stock AC, the compressor failed. The place the former female owner took it to didn't just cut the belt, no they took the compressor and all the brackets too. Why? They fleeced her to death. All that stuff that I have to rebuy was sold and now is near impossible to find.

 

Fixing the A/C by removing it is like fixing stupidity by removing one's brain. Were they attempting to sell her duplicates of the parts they removed?
I've never heard of Pick Your Part. Was that some sort of a franchise like a Pizza Hut version for auto parts?
Yeah, if you take your car into a shop wearing a monkey suit, dainty hands and a pencil neck, you'll likely get viewed different than if you show up from a lunch break in the middle of an oil rig job. Over here, punks tend to take women to the cleaners. My ex got foot bills for unnecessary work a couple times. I'll detail later, at your request. My apartment neighbor got foot a bill for a recall which the "mechanic" should have done for free. They saw her arriving. She still does business with this shop. The owner has these apprentices and other cheap labor doing work and he's too lazy to practice quality control, before customers get their cars back.
By the way, your avatar isn't likely to get along with mine, once it grows up

 

Pick Your Part is a chain of junkyards around Southern California. Customers are free to roam the junkyard and pick off any part they want among the junked cars; you bring the part to an employee and they price it for you. They also buy cars that are ready for the junkyard. If a car doesn't run they will pick it up for free. The money they give for cars is not very good, but it's the last resort if your car is "beyond the beyond."

The new avatar is Baxter when we first got him. He was only 8 months old. Right now he is 2 1/2. He is "dog-friendly" so he might get along with your dog.

 

So, they make you do the work of fetching the part and then tell you afterwards what they want for it. If the price's too high and you therefore leave it at the counter, they'll simply put it on the shelf after someone else did all the work. Sounds like a great outfit to do business with.
If Baxter ever changes his mind, my next avatar will be ready

 

Latest news, the Ebay seller I purchased the AC bracket from has been d*cking around. I ordered the part on Jan 10th, he gave it a tracking number the next day, FEDEX is STILL not in possession of the item. I emailed the seller and it's been 3 days, no response. I was really nervous ordering from this guy because he's gotten so many negative reviews, but Paul encouraged me, saying that I could get my money back easily due to Paypal buyer protection. But that's not the point! I should have never listened to him. Now I've got ongoing frustration and Turner's Auto Wrecking already sold their part to someone else.

 

Here in Germany, FedEx stored a dashcam of which I ordered directly from Japan. Instead of delivering it, either one of their employees has stolen it or it got sent back to Japan. The seller who incidently has a good ebay rating gave up and stopped correspondence. I took it up with ebay. So, at least I'm doo to get my money back (I much ratherhave preferred getting the ordered item).
I'd concentrate on applying pressure on FedEx, if I were you. You might, that way, be able to head off a fluster cuck, before some employee there gets a chance to sell it or chuck it into some bin.
You're lucky to have the main and most important bracket. From there, it isn't difficult to have the rear bracket temporarilly custom duplicated at a fraction of what they wanted for the original. A welder, drill, round file and a quarter inch metal plate is all you need. You can then run your A/C, until an original bracket shows up



Simultaneous to that, they're showing that it's still underway

 

I do have the rear brace and it's installed. What is missing is the bracket (the one I previously ordered from Ebay, which I posted previously on this thread, is not correct. Forty dollars down). As of this morning, it still hasn't been received by FEDEX. I'm giving this guy until Feb 1st, then I'm going to request a refund. It does seem very peculiar though, that the item has a tracking number. Very odd.

 

Over here, it's standard procedure. If FedEx would issue tracking numbers over there, you'd know immediately if your bracket was sent to them or not