Baby, it's cold inside!

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

Ok. With all that stuff when are you hosting a recharge weekend?



Julie Macfarlane
"Its not just a car! Its an adventure!"
1981 MKI 2L 16v w 2Y
Amsterdam NY





>From: Jim Jarrett <jarrett@rpa.net>
>To: Brad Sterling <bgsterling@bluebottle.com>,Scirocco 
><scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Baby, it's cold inside!
>Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:37:55 -0500
>
>On 8/4/05 9:42 PM, "Brad Sterling" <bgsterling@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > The air driven vacuum thing is like one of these, right?
> > <http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=3952>
>
>
>I had that, but I couldn't find the right set of connectors to make it 
>work.
>
>So I got this:
>
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=92475
>
>And this:
>
>http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=2435
>
>(It was on sale).
>
>I had to replace my condensor because it was shot, and I replaced the 
>dryer,
>too.  They're only $18 from Adirondack.  I also replaced the O-rings.
>
>The problem I had were that  after screwing on the adaptor from the R134a
>conversion kit, I couldn't get a good, tight fit from the A/C gauge 
>manifold
>set.
>
>What I ended up doing was finding the hose from an old R134a kit I'd bought
>for my Passat.  It had a metal end that "snap-fit" to the adaptor that you
>screw onto the low pressure side of the A/C system.  It also had a metal 
>end
>that screwed onto the vacuum port of the Harbor Frieght vac pump.  So I 
>used
>that to draw down the vacuum for about 2 minutes, until the tone of the 
>pump
>changed.
>
>I then disconnected the old R134a hose I was using from the A/C, then the
>pump, and screwed the low pressure gauge from the A/C manifold to it, and
>hooked it up to the system, where it showed as low a vacuum reading as the
>gauge would go.  I left it overnight, and it held.
>
>I then broke out the R134a can and fill kit, which looks just like the
>picture in the bottom right of this page:
>http://www.id-usa.com/how_to_recharging.asp
>
>Unfortunately, the ends of that hose were plastic.  I don't think a lot of
>the first can got into the system, because I ran it for 10 minutes, and the
>can never seemed to empty.  When I took it off, and opened the valve on the
>gauge, a lot of gas came out.
>
>I then took the old hose, the one with the metal ends from the old recharge
>it, and used that, and I could hear the system change tone, and begin to
>blow cold.
>
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>| Jim Jarrett,McFarland, WI      '94 Passat GLX                 |
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