Depends on how much time you can mess with it, I think the least expensive route is taking your old hose to a hydraulic shop to get new hose installed on your old fittings.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 17:24 Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So I spent most of the day working on the 190D. I did a full conversion > to R134 including new expansion valve, all o rings replaced, drier > replaced, oil changed to ester, also pulled the blower motor and cleaned > out a rats nest that was built back behind the fan and evaporator. No > idea how they got in there. Put it all back together, pulled a vacuum > and ran leak test on the ac machine, it passed. I then charged with > R134 and the 201 chassis seems to convert well to R134 as it cooled > pretty darn good at idle in the 95 degree heat today. > > I noticed all the sudden the oil pressure gauge is dead, shows 0 even > when wire is unplugged from the sending unit. I guess I will have to > swap the gauge out. So as I was finishing it up for the day I shut the > car down and hear a hiss. Not the normal hiss you might here when you > shut it down with the high and low side equalizing. It was louder. It > seemed to be coming from down low. Then I saw it, a big bubble in the > high side hose from the condenser to the compressor. Crap. I pulled > the car back into the shop to go ahead and recover the system before it > all leaked out and I keep getting a high pressure error on my machine. > I need to look into that and hopefully its not a major deal. So anyway, > looks like Im going to have to replace the manifold hoses. I wonder if > its cheaper to order a new set or have these rebuilt? Anybody BTDT? I > was hoping to have this car ready to start driving next week. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
