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04-16-2006, 05:15 PM
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Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
Posts: 27,548
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What are the steps to recharging the A/C? What are the tools that I need to get? |
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04-16-2006, 05:54 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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The 4.2L Guy
Join Date: Nov 2003
City: Scumter; Home: Chicago, IL
State: South Carolina
Posts: 2,031
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All you need is a kit of r-134a from wal-mart. It comes with a valve dealio that you hook up to your lines.
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04-16-2006, 06:27 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Needs turbo.
Join Date: Nov 2003
City: Mt. Juliet
State: Tennessee
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And make sure you grab the can with both hands when you do it.  |
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04-16-2006, 06:40 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
Posts: 27,548
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04-16-2006, 07:16 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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The Mustang's Human Twin
Join Date: May 2003
City: Terre Haute, SC for a bit
State: Indiana
Posts: 1,638
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It will freeze your hands, notice his
It's easy, simple directions on the box. I've done several.
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04-16-2006, 07:20 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
Posts: 27,548
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Man I totally would have done it too |
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04-16-2006, 08:12 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Eyes So Tight I Pass For An Asian
Join Date: May 2003
City: Huntsville
State: Alabama
Posts: 27,548
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Well I bought one of those kits... and put the gauge on to read the pressure... and it was in the warning area of the gauge... did I check the wrong one? Its the only service port I could find on the car for the A/C on the line that goes from the A/C Compressor to the evaporator thing.
If it is in the warning area does that mean the A/C compressor is bad? |
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04-17-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Your my boy blu!
Join Date: Jan 2006
City: honolulu
State: Hawaii
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I think there is a low pressue and a high pressure side. You want the service port by the accumulator/dehydrator thingy(love the techincal jargon)torwards the back of the engine bay on the pass side, by the shock tower. This is on a 01 gt though, yours maybe different.
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04-17-2006, 06:39 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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The 4.2L Guy
Join Date: Nov 2003
City: Scumter; Home: Chicago, IL
State: South Carolina
Posts: 2,031
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Well maybe you're compressor is not getting electricity. Look on the from of your AC compressor, you should notice a little triangle thing on the front. Turn on your ACA and it should engage the clutch and spin the triangle thing. does it?
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60' ~ 2.1, 1/8 ~ 9.61 @ 73.4mph
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04-17-2006, 10:06 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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FDNY 343 9-11-01
Join Date: May 2003
City: Fishers
State: Indiana
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Brent, here is a pic. also: "11. Back off the valve handle on the charging kit and screw the kit onto the refrigerant can, making sure that the o-ring or rubber seal insdie the threaded portion of the kit is in place. WARNING: Wear protective eye wear when dealing with pressurized refrigerant cans.
12.remove the dust capfrom the low-side charging port and attach the quick-connect fitting on the kit hose WARNING: DO NOT hook the charging kit hose to the system high side! (now cliff notes) : turn the car on, let it warm up to normal, turn AC on, fill with refrigerant never add more then 2 cans, let the 2 sides = the same temp, use a wet hot towel around the can to help prevent frosting)
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04-24-2006, 09:08 AM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 254
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Its pretty easy to do, I have one of the setups with a guage and adapters for the high and low side, but now they make a bottle with a line that hooks right up, I think it might have a small guage setup built in, its even cheaper.
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04-26-2006, 07:10 PM
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Re: Anyone recharged their A/C?
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The Mustang's Human Twin
Join Date: May 2003
City: Terre Haute, SC for a bit
State: Indiana
Posts: 1,638
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Have you done it yet Brent???
Getting HOT even up here!
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