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Makes 🢒 Chevrolet 🢒 1988 🢒 Cavalier 🢒 Bulletins 🢒 V-5 A/C COMPRESSOR PARTS RETURN PROGRAM

V-5 A/C COMPRESSOR PARTS RETURN PROGRAM

Model and Year: 1988 CAVALIER, CORSICA, BERETTA WITH 2.8L (LB6) ENGINE AND MANUAL (MG2) TRANSMISSION

The V-5 Air Conditioning Compressor has been revised on the above listed vehicles for increased performance; new part numbers now in production have a swaged socket plate which replaces the connecting rod retainers.

Beginning with the VINS listed below, Cavalier, Corsica, and Beretta models with 2.8L engine (LB6) and manual transmissions (MG2) have this new V-5 compressor.

cavalier Lordstown -- lGlJF3lW3J7158261

Janesville -- lGlJFllWlJJ189605

Corsica, Beretta Wilmington -- lGlLV14W5JY586385

Linden -- lGlLV14W4JE570745

The revised parts can be identified as follows:

New part number -- 1131742 (blue label)

Old part number -- 1131709 (silver label)

Engineering is asking that all V-5 compressors replaced on these 1988 model vehicles after these breakpoints be returned so that effectiveness of the compressor changes can be analyzed. This program will run through August, 1989. Parts should be returned to:

Harrison Radiator Division, GMC ATTN: Ursula Morris - Q.A. Moraine Operation Dock 31 3600 Dryden Road Moraine, OH 45438

Please use standard labor time and codes for required replacements.

This return request will also be reflected at the end of your weekly claim memos through the Chevrolet National Selective Parts Return Program.

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