Garrett Michael

I was wanting to remove my A/C belt on my 2000 Trans Am to gain a few horses @ the track, but the car is my daily driver and I would like to keep my A/C. Would taking the belt off for a short period of time hurt my air conditioning system?

waterbug1999

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Nope.... I use to do it, until I tore out the AC system.

Garrett Michael

and you never had any problems with it not working rite?. . .I just would hate to lose my A/C it was pretty hot out today.

waterbug1999

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Well, you cant have your belt off and expect it to blow cool air out...

But, not running your AC and having the AC belt off wont hurt a thing.

I had mine off for ~3 months, then put it back on and all was good to go.

s346k

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i had mine removed for roughly 6 months and when i put the belt back on and began spinning the compressor it sounded horrible. like it had rusted/corroded inside or something. squealing and carrying on..after a few days of this it finally went away and sounded normal. functioned fine the entire time it was running, noise or not.