Hi Tom,
Thanks for the reply. He bought the car last fall and the AC didn't
work then - don't know when it was last functioning. The car is on its
way to my house tonight, I should be able to put gauges on it and see
what's going on. If there's more than a few PSI in the system, we may
gamble on
There is nothing that will mix will work as a refrigerant.
Based on your tests, I'd say that your friend's system is low. There is
no way of knowing how fast R12 will leak out without dumping a can in.
One good sign is that fact that he has some refrigerant in his system.
Has his AC been down
you can do this use any dry gas I used the key board cleaner because it is
a refrigerant gas ( just not for mobile ..auto ... systems)
what you do is add 3 or 4 cans to the system and check for leaks
this is done first immediately by looking for the big obvious leaks than a
few weeks
safely discharge into the atmosphere and refill with $7 R134a cans
from Autozone. The newer stuff has oils that don't eat the seals in
old cars. That was the big stink with converting R12 cars to R134 --
you had to redo all the seals. shops charged a few hundred bucks for
that. I have a
Checkout: http://duracoolky.com/
I've used their HC-22 product to top off industrial cooling units. So
far, so good.
I have not yet tried their HC-12a product.
-Dave Walton
On 7/5/05, Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave M. wrote:
Hi all,
My friend has a W124 with no A/C. I
Its the same as duracool, or is supposed to be. I have tried duracool
but not the new name. The last batch of duracool I got must have been
bad or something as it didnt work worth a darn.
dave walton wrote:
Checkout: http://duracoolky.com/
I've used their HC-22 product to top off
Dave M. wrote:
Hi all,
My friend has a W124 with no A/C. I pressed the schrader valve and
there is still some pressure in the system, so it's not empty. I
shorted the low pressure switch and the compressor runs, and there are
bubbles (or something) visible in the sight glass. I did not have my
I'm certainly no expert, but I'd be inclined to wait until I could put
some gauges on it, or even pay someone a few bucks to reliably tell me
what kind of pressure the system's seeing. My recollection is that
with R-12 you need to add enough to eliminate the bubbles.
joe
On 7/4/05, Dave M.
I understand this problem
what I did was to use a gas that I found out was a refrigerant it was of
all things computer key board cleaner... I have a side can tap so it worked
just like the r 12
I had a major leak and it was easy to find actually I needed to blow old
oil and debris out
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand this problem
what I did was to use a gas that I found out was a refrigerant it was of all
things
computer key board cleaner...
Isn't that just regular old R134a?
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