Disable Air Con Pump?

[Hands on Mark]

My aircon pump is failing and threatening to disable the car as lots of other stuff runs off it. Price of a new pump is too much for the value of the car and the aircon hasnt worked for years. Does any one know if there is a way of disabling the aircon pump but keeping everything else running (take aircon pulley off and fit a shorter belt perhaps)

[gregers]

iirc there is a pic and details about this somewhere on here about this very subject,do a search.

[seatkid]

Just disconnect the 12volt plug and the clutch will never engage.

[zorgman]

can never pull in if lack of gas as pressure switch wont allow it, mines been dead for 6 yrs due to a pipe snapped off pump

[Hands on Mark]

Thanks for the advice - I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. It was the Bearings that were failing so I needed to bypass it completely.

Actually I got really lucky and found a private seller who had taken one off the car he was scrapping, he only lived 10 miles away so I picked it up, fitted job done - 200,000 miles is now well within reach, fingers crossed!