a/c retrofit kit??

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

I used a kit from Castrol and replaced all the seals except for the ones on 
the evaporator cuz I was lazy and didn't want to pull it out. On my test 
run I was getting 85F out of the vents with the fan on 3 and after 
switching the A/C on, not max position for recycle, I was getting 37'ish.

Better than my 8V or 16V ever did on R-12

-Raffi

At 03:50 PM 6/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
>the 134a conversion kits come with an 'r-12 seal safe' conversion type of 
>oil. this allows r134 to
>be used directly in a non-modified r12 system.
>Al
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Corey Muscavitz" <skyrocco16v@prodigy.net>
>To: "Allyn" <amalventano1@comcast.net>; <Captnbr@aol.com>; 
><scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:29 PM
>Subject: Re: a/c retrofit kit??
>
>
> > well obviously you want to draw a vacuum on the sys. to get all of the
> > moisture and "non-condensables" out of the piping, reciver-dryer, condenser
> > and evaporator.  in school we just went over all of the HAVC theory, so 
> it's
> > all pretty fresh in my mind.   i'm not too familiar with the kits you get
> > from pep-boys or what not, do they come with oil and all the new 
> fitings you
> > need?  and as far as temp. goes, the only thing that is a big difference
> > between r-12 and r-134a (besides the price) is how efficently it transfers
> > heat energy.  they say that for a r-134a system to work as good as 
> r-12, you
> > need an evaporator that is about 1/2 again as large as the origional.
> > something that also affects a/c output is this little thing they call "heat
> > load" .  this is a combination of abient air temp, humidity, "sun 
> load", and
> > the amount of people in the vehicle.  the more heat load there is on the
> > system, the warmer the outlet temp is going to be.   annother drawback of
> > r-134a is that a small r-12 leak is will leak more with r-134a, due to the
> > fact that the r-134a molecule is smaller than an r-12 molecule.  but as far
> > as being the best "bang for your buck" r-134a is definatly the way to go.
> > not to mention that it's more ozone safe than r-12.  sorry for the ranting,
> > but i just aced my hvac final today, so i've got a pretty big ego right now
> > and need to show off my knowledge of the subject. ;)  thanks for listening
> > to me rant.
> > corey
> > 88 16v
> > 82 green machine
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>
> > To: <Captnbr@aol.com>; <skyrocco16v@prodigy.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 11:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: a/c retrofit kit??
> >
> >
> > > i've gotten a 134a conversion to hit 40F at the vents. the only thing i
> > did differently was draw a
> > > vacuum on the system prior to refilling.
> > > Al
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <Captnbr@aol.com>
> > > To: <skyrocco16v@prodigy.net>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 10:40 PM
> > > Subject: Re: a/c retrofit kit??
> > >
> > >
> > > > In a message dated Wed, 26 Jun 2002 8:14:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > skyrocco16v@prodigy.net
> > > writes:
> > > >
> > > > > does anybody know if there is an a/c retrofit kit available for a 16v
> > rocco?  with the extremely
> > > high cost of r-12, i
> > > > > want to convert my car to r-134a.  thanks
> > > > > corey
> > > >
> > > > Yeah Corey, you can go to wal-mart or Pepboys or probably any auto 
> store
> > they have the whole kit
> > > for like 40 bucks and you can do it yourself.  I haven't done it yet 
> but I
> > will soon, from what I
> > > heard it is not as cold as the original system.  Important thing to do is
> > when you change all the
> > > seals, before you fill it with the new freon make sure you go to a mech.
> > and have them pull a vacume
> > > on the system. Peace out
> > > >
> > > > Brian 86 16v
> > > > 98 Jetta Vr6 GLX
> > > >
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