So our first Pacifica we bought kind of ran into a problem that needed something similar like this to be done.
Yours and my issue are probably two totally different scenarios in comparison but maybe it may help you or someone else.
Here goes;
So one day my wife was driving back home from work and she ended up smelling something burning and then shortly after she saw some smoke coming up or out from under the hood.
So she decided to make a stop and check it out.
So she opens the hood to check where the smoke was coming from then right after she opened the hood, she said there was a decent mild fire that just burst out for a bit and she freaks out thinking our car is gonna blow up because she didn't have anything to put the fire out. So she runs to the back to look for something to help put out the fire, I believe?
So by the time she comes back to the engine bay, the fire is finally out and is still pretty smokey but she double checks everything and decides to start it. It starts, so she drives the remaining 10 or so miles home and no fire ever starts back up on the remaining trip.
She comes home, tells me.(I was a lil worried and speechless when she did) We decide to inspect literally "everything and everywhere" and a lil later my wife finds and locates the source of where the fire started and it turns out that it was our ac compressor. The wires were melted and our compressor was cosmetically charred. Prior to this issue, we had an electrical short problem with it that we knew of. Our battery wouldn't hold charge and it was practically brand new. So the next thing we did we ended up replacing the starter(due to it had problems starting up due the the constant dead battery because of the electrical short we had that was giving us trouble with identifying where the short actually was and we still never identified the issue. We ended up rewiring all the grounds, used a wire brush to scrape off all the corrosion and all that good stuff. Which is not the subject i was originally posting about. So we did all that work just for our short issue just to end up having the short in a whole new place. It is now currently in our front right headlight and it burns really hot after lights are turned on. The battery still does not keep a full charge but it drains super slowly now. As long as we drive it daily the battery does not die or drain but all that aside, we can't use our ac compressor so we didn't drive our first Pacifica after all that work because we ended up buying another Pacifica to temporarily replace our first one to work on, thats another story. But back to the story, so since we had difficulty with the compressor not running or working properly after all that work we did and it being slightly burnt from catching fire not long before all that work.
So long story short, we ended up needing to somehow bypass the compressor as well and it was actually really simple.
We ended up bypassing the ac compressor by replacing the serpentine belt with a shorter serpentine belt & lo and behold it served its purpose. Our compressor has not been connected since then and its been about 7-8 months since then. Ac don't work but everything else all works perfectly fine besides the overheating front headlight.
I know I added a lot of detail and story that had nothing to do with what this post exactly asked of but I just felt the need to try explain a little of what all happened to our Pacifica that led up to why we had to find a quick fix of bypassing our compressor the way we did.
We now own two 05 Pacificas that definitely made us go to hell and back just to keep them running but I honestly think it was worth all the effort and money we put into them because I learned to love our Pacificas. I absolutely love the 04-08 Pacifica bodystyle.
I really hope this helps someone looking for answers because I know we didn't have the luxury of being able to find ppl, let alone even answers, to the issues we experiencing with our Pacificas. We had put in the work to find all the answers on our own which was hell.
We spent 2 months of troubleshooting every possible fix that we could think of.
Almost 2 whole MONTHS!
2 M O N T H S !
We drove daily both vehicles the whole time we were troubleshooting too and it was not the easiest thing to do.
But thats all I have for now, there's more about our Pacificas but if anyone has any questions or need answers for working on a Pacifica, you can ask me and I'll do my best to respond and help as much as I can.
Having the same problem do you remember what size belt you got when you by passed it ?
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SOURCE: Needing to remove ac compressor to install ac bypass pulley
There are a couple of ways to approach this. I just did one of these for a friend. The A/C pump seized while running. The serpentine belt broke. Crazy things can happen to other components when this occurs. In this case the broken ends of the belt, I think, whipped back around on itself on the crankshaft pulley and one of the other pulleys in the belt circuit and devastation occurred. 1) It snapped the power steering pump bracket in two. 2) It took out the alternator. 3) And not to be left out, GOODBYE cool blowin air conditioning. Time to decide what to do. He had to order the power steering bracket from a dealer (junk yards were cleaned out). He decided to replace the power steering pump with a remanufactured unit and new hoses (parts houses are much cheaper than dealer parts folks). You'll need a pulley remover that you can usually borrow (with a deposit) from some parts houses. He HAD to buy the alternato ya gotta have juice. I have been using the name, "parts houses" . (Can we use specific company names in this forum MR./MS. Editors ? I Feel I need to for the sake of all of us that come here for correct information.) THE ANSWER : DO you want to drop the bucks into fixing your A/C ? NO ? It can be involved and costly depending on how good of a do it yourselfer you are. New pumps are spendy. Then, if you use the older refridgerant you'll need a conversion kit and blah blah blah. YOU have opted for a bypass pulley. COOL ! Errrr...not actually. It's coming out. The bolts that hold the A/C pump to its bracket come out from BEHIND the bottom of the unit. They are long and won't clear the intake manifold,at least not easily. Take the bracket bolts out from the front. Take the hose from the pump to the dryer apart (at the dryer). Do you want to preserve the system for future repair? If so, cover that connection on the dryer to protect it from the world. With a sharp blade, cut the other hose coming off the pump right behind the grill. Or, try to take the fitting apart at the evaporator. Cutting it is easier. Plug the cut off end if ya want. Future repair thing. Rotate the pump forward so you can either take the bolts out,or remove the pump and bracket as a unit, with the lengths of hose attatched to the pump. This gets all that hose you no longer need out of the engine compartment. NOW THE BYPASS PULLEY. He found a pulley from NAPA. IT DOES NOT WORK ! YOU DO NOT NEED IT ! Nothing against NAPA. I have bought good parts from them before. Maybe their supplier does not know. The pulley is supposed to drop into the A/C bracket in the concave recess that the pump once occupied. IT WASN'T EVEN CLOSE. Chevy released THREE versions: Poor Boy-no power steering,no A/C. MIDMan-power steering,no A/C. Rich Guy-power steering,with A/C. SO....... If you have power steering, the A/C pump removal just put you into Midman status. Stop at your local chevy dealer, ask them to print you a belt routing diagram from the computer parts book. It shows all three versions. Go to your local,,,,,,,"PARTS HOUSE", tell them info...year,make,engine size, REMEMBER.. IT NO LONGER HAS AIR CONDITIONING. YOU'LL GET A SHORTER BELT !! IF, they sold you the bypass pulley.....GET YOUR MONEY BACK !!! Use the diagram you got. The belt is routed a little different since you lost the A/C pump and the idler pulley with it's bracket(that you can keep for future repair or trade in for to be made into beer cans) Also remember that without a belt on, the tensioner pulley is swung over to the end of it,s range of motion. When you get the belt routed correctly you have to put a wrench on the bolt on the pulley and turn hard to compress the spring. (COUNTERCLOCKWISE) The bolt is left hand thread so it won't come loose while ya reef on it to get the belt swung onto the ALTERNATOR LAST.<<<<<<GOOD LUCK !!! ADDED NOTE: Would that bypass pulley work on say...an "88" or "89" or "90" ? > I DO NOT KNOW. DID CHEVY change the size of the pump bracket after 87 ? We will be letting the good folks at NAPA know what we ran into and how we fixed it. We also will ask for a refund on the wrong part for the job. IT DOES NOT FIT AN 87! WE DO KNOW THIS..... IF the belt had just broke in half and safely dropped away, then all those parts wouldn't have been needed and the cost of the fix is FOR A SHORTER BELT and a little sweat to remove the A/C pump and bracket. The A/C NEVER WORKED ANYWAY
SOURCE: program instruction garage door opener in 2005 chrysler pacifica
if your garage motor have rolling codes you need to put your car inside garage near the motor leave ignition on go to the motor locate learn button press it then quickly go to the car and press and hold one of the buttons for approximately 30 sec or until it start blinking rapidly, if you have a regular motor take one hand held opener go inside car ignition on same time press open button on handheld remote and on the car button 30 sec and it should be programmed.
SOURCE: on a 2001 saab 93 turbo can can you bypass the ac
You can bypass both the AC compressor and the middle serpentine idler pulley with a 6PK1790. The middle pulley is bypassed by running the belt straight line from the upper rear serpentine idler straight to the power steering pulley, then over the water pump (the smooth pulley powered by the back side of the belt) and down to the engine drive pulley (harmonic balancer), bypassing the AC compressor) This works fine. On 9.5 models, the same basic idea, but a slightly different sized belt.
SOURCE: need to bypass the a/c compressor with pulley
see the dealer for the delete AC pulley, that is the only place to get it.
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