I bought a Texas compressor from Rusty about a year and a half ago and it's
still doing well. Apparently we only have a choice of the Texas or the
Chinese compressors although I did see a listing for a Japanese compressor
somewhere?
Gerry
From: "Gary Hurst" <jabbahur...@gmail.com>
it's basically a delco R4 radial compressor with metric fittings. i sell
the texas ones from the group who i'm told bought the tooling from GM.
most go for the cheap behr chinese knockoff in any case, 7 years plus is
still a while
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Rich Thomas <
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote:
I'm not sure it could be classified as "premature" as we have had the car
4 or 5 years, and it was converted over at least a coupla years prior to
that. I have the full service receipt package for the car, I could look
through there and find out if the compressor was ever swapped, or if it
was
done when the conversion was done. In any case, the compressor is say 7+
yr
old, which I suppose is not really indicative of age-related failure, but
would not be unexpected.
I don't even know what kind it is, where is the name plate on it? It gets
fairly nasty down there, I will have to clean it off at some point and
see
what it is. Wasn't there an assertion that some domestic compressor
would
fit if turned upside down or something?
--R
On 10/16/13 1:07 PM, Gary Hurst wrote:
how old is the compressor?
there are two lines of discussions i've heard on this lately with
premature
compressor failure, neither having to do with 134
1. there is still crap in the system from the last compressor that blew
up. some are advocating adding an additional filter in the line
2 these cheap crappy chinese behr compressors people buy from
unscrupulous vendors just blow up as they are super cheap and crappy
o dpm
t don't have a good feeling on an answer but i wouldn't be thinking 134
did
this to you. also, if the compressor is decades old, that might have
something to do with it
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Rich Thomas <
richthomas79TD300@**constructivity.net<richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>>
wrote:
The 84 SD was getting a bit of TLC and I noticed the compressor belt
was
sorta wrapped around the fan. hmmmm not good. I put it back on,
started
the engine, hit the AC button and WHAM engine stops. I figured the
compressor was seized, daughter said it was not cooling, that confirmed
it.
Car had 134 conversion, was working quite well. Wondering if that had
something to do with the failure, or just age and use and such.
I guess it is new compressor time, maybe in a coupla months. I know
there
has been lots of discussion of compressor replacement, system cleaning
and
such, but any thoughts would be useful in my hour of grief. In
particular
continuing with the 134.
--R
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