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I have Jeep Cherokee with faulty air-con. It has a single wire plug compressor and I have sourced a replacement that is a twin wire. Looking at the connections the single wire takes one wire straight to ground and the other supplies the compressor. Can I therefore change this over and make the twin wire compressor a single wire by taking one wire to ground? And swapping my broken compressor single wire over? It seems like the design change was to take it to two wires so my Heath Robinson modification in theory may work! And advice appreciated

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Yes you can. the old style relied on the pump case for a ground and sometimes caused electralisis to eat away at the case causing a leak

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