I have been thinking of doing this for a while.

Have been looking at my shop manual.

Do I leave the tensionier in even with the compressor out?

Can take out the condeser, compreessor, evaporator, and everything with out side effects?

Any one done this yet? pointers?

 

If you are going to remember the compressor.. I beleive that belt ONLY drives the compressor.. so it is safe to remove the tensioner.

 

Any one else done this or have pointers?

 

Talk to importshark01. I bought all his A/C parts off him. He took his off when he boosted.

If you are removing everything let me know I might be interesting in something.