Please make note that all accessories installed in a
car must pass safety tests including accident
simulations. For example, Your back seat backrest is
specially re-enforced to withstand the luggage weight
in your luggage compartment when colliding head-on (to
a limit, of course), to avoid having all the stuff
"flying over" the passengers heads.
Anything added by a DIY dude might not take all safety
considerations in mind. In your specific situation, a
head-on collision will send your window installed A/C
unit (ripping it's inadequate mounts) towards the back
of your head, in perfect synchronization with whatever
is coming from the front (such as the steering wheel,
glass, etc.)!!!
A perfect "sandwich" situation...:-)

Think it over, pal. People keep forgetting about
"worst case" situations, when that's really what
should be taken in mind.

cheers, T-man.

--- Joe Reed <joe.reed@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
> Somehow it seems suited that I post this on a
> Friday...
>
> Some other blokes and I are rigging my 87 Westy with
> a very small 6000BTU
> window a/c....on a 15-amp inverter with a separate
> battery tied into
> charging system, etc etc. so it can run while
> mobile, with only <4"
> extending out the window. When parked, the unit
> slides out on a shelf (the
> front of which is on casters rolling across the sink
> cover) and is
> stabilized externally by an adjustable brace to the
> ground, and only <3" are
> inside...since the window in question is the one
> behind the driver/above the
> sink, this will allow the cover to open when parked.
> Obviously, while parked
> it can run on standard AC power when available.
>
> The unit weighs just 41 pounds (with the weight
> primarily in the front), and
> is only 12" high by 16" wide and 14" deep.
> Heavy-duty cables as safety
> straps and redundant locking mechanisms will be in
> place so that it's locked
> down tight while traveling.
>
> Sliding shelf will rest on a reinforced frame
> installed over the aluminum
> window frame (protecting it) left once the sliding
> glass is removed
> (stationary half of the window left in place).
>
> In the winter, unbolt the frame, remove the a/c, and
> reinstall the sliding
> glass. Turn on the heat.
>
>
>
> Once we have it completely drawn up and ready to
> begin installation, I'll
> take pix recording this absurd effort and set up a
> website or something.
>
>
> ~ Name withheld to protect the stupid
> (oops it's in my e-mail address...I *am* stupid)
> 87 Westy

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