Thanks again WINDSTAR GOD!!!!
Carl, I realize you have pictures of it, but have you ever replaced your cycling switch or pressure switch? What was your cause for doing so? When your clutch delays in coming on for the 1st engage.... does it do a big CLUNK/GRIND and only for the 1st engagement after having sat for a long time?
I called my trusted shop yesterday about this and they said when I remove the cycling switch there will be a little hiss and it'll stop... so there will be like maybe 1 or 2 seconds of pressure/refrigerant loss, but nothing significant if you unscrew it quickly I would think.
The accumulator is new and its making me wonder why they didn't replace the cycling switch with it when I was in my frenzy of "make van like new" with the barage of parts I bought to bring it up to date on TSBs and various weak spots. After all they were both there for 158k miles and A/C was/is used heavily here and they are both moving parts. I'm focusing on the moving parts for this problem at the time being. I really don't want to chase down wiring issues and I really don't see the point in checking the fuse 21 (10A) in the cabin cause if it was blown it wouldn't cut on at all which isn't my problem.
I did look in my Cd-ROM for this, but the closest I could find was "clutch doesn't cut on" and not "clutch takes a while to cut on".
It doesn't so much bother me that it takes a while to cut on as it does that there is this huge CLUNK sound when it does cut on the 1st time.
Perhaps I should just lubricate the clutch assembly like I did on my car. I had never thought to do this before, but I was attempting to remove the clutch assembly on my car and it wouldn't budge for hell, so I ended up lubricating and cleaning it with 2 different bolt free-er-uppers and lubricant. Ever since then the a/c clutch has engaged beautifully and smooth cause its lubed and I removed A GREAT DEAL of debris from it. The new clutch assembly on the van of course wouldn't be dirty, but I bet it wouldn't hurt it to have a lil bit of lubricant.
Thoughts?