The pulley is shot on my 2010 F-150 FX2 4.6L 3V. When I removed the pulley it broke off part of the lip that retains the snap-ring and keeps the pulley on. The coil is pretty ate up too, from the pulley wobbling I imagine.

Long story short, I need to just replace the whole darn assembly. Sucks, because everything was working fine, minus the bad bearing that was making noise.

I don't want to deal with evacuating refrigerant and all that so I'm stuck bringing it to a shop, after I figured out how to limp it down there. What can I expect to pay in labor?

I ordered the compressor on Amazon, Motorcraft part for $308. Locally they want $500. Does my truck have an orifice tube or do I just need the accumulator/drier?

 

Mine was $1100, but that was for everything, including an aftermarket compressor. And it could have been under $1000, but we were going back and forth about what exactly was wrong. Just tell them to replace the TXV without research. At this age you want to for the extra $50 or whatever it costs and they won't have to dick around with more labor.

 

You can do it...tho your gonna need 134 etc....you may be able to just replace the clutch assembly. My ac would blow cold on start up and cool once the truck got up to operating temps. I did my clutch but later replaced the compressor, orfice tube (pretty much a filter in the low side AC line) and charging the system again. I should've just did the compressor the first time rather trying to save parts that had over 200k on them. But that truck is on this site. I sold it last year with 244K on it with the AC still blowing cold. Honestly, its gonna be in excess of 400-500$ dyi. If time is important, the 1000$ might be worth it.
Good Luck!!

 

Food for thought.

In 2010 is the AC on its own belt? In 2011 it is it’s why I ask. If so, you should be able to drive it to the shop with the belt off and all heat/ac functions turned off inside the cab I would think? Pay them to evacuate it, take it home and do the work.

Rent a manifold gauge and vacuum pump from an auto parts store.

I ended up buying pag oil from the dealership as my ac compressor leaked out most of what was in it during shipment.

You’ll want new orings/seals for the lines. If you get on rockauto.com you can find the whole oring seals kit for cheap.

Maybe where you are it’s different, but most shops here won’t install supplied parts. I’ve found an auto mobile mechanic that has come to me and installed my supplied parts.

You might could get around this by having a shop evacuate the system, install the new parts yourself and then back to the shop for them to vacuum and charge the system if you want to save on labor.

 

Yes, yes, what Ferdin said!! it is kinda alot of work.