Well it's still hot here in Florida as the last extended days of summer wrap up and I have an A/C question. I had an aftermarket R12 A/C put in the car when I got her used in '93. Everything was fine until last year, about a week after the engine swap- the 4-1 headers cooked the high side A/C line and the seal blew at the compressor, sending freon & oil everywhere (I have since put in heat shields all around the A/C lines).
I took the car to the local A/C shop and they hemmed & hawed that they couldn't do R12 so they converted the system to R134a. A friend of mine tells me yesterday that I'm slowly destroying the compressor since R134a is not as good a lubricator as R12 was. Is this true?? Incidentally, my friend mentioned a small one-man auto shop who may be able to put R12 back in the system... George '89 DX-Hybrid-D16Z6, 124k miles "Seats, Suspension, Engine, MSD, next=dyno"
