...is a love-hate thing. I love doing it. Hate paying for it.

I just went outside and scoped over my AC with the UV light. Had a leak for a while, been too lazy to do anything.

I just knew my hoses were leaking or that the existing o-rings were seeping. Wrong.

Nice bunch of dye fluorescing around the clutch. Front seal on compressor is leaking and getting steadily worse.

So much for my jungle R134 conversion. Held for a couple of years, though. And I no longer have a spare compressor. Cheapest one is like 180 bucks, no clutch. Anybody got any newer Honda compressors lying around?

9/3/2005 11:25:22 PM

no, but if youve got a UV Light im probably gonna add some dye in my shit soon, then i can get you to scope it out. ive put most of a 19oz can and most of a 12oz can in it in the past 2 weeks and it still wont get colder than 45 on the hwy.

9/3/2005 11:29:20 PM

Question is, Joel, have you put too much in? I ran across a fella one day that had serious cooling issues...turns out his compressor was cycling like mad. Low pressure was almost 60psi, high pressure through the roof, throwing the trinary switch.

Efficiency goes WAY down if you're overcharged. Fast.

If you have to add ANYTHING to a system, then there's a leak, and with R134, even small leaks deplete the system relatively fast.

Yeah, we can hit 'er with the UV light. It works. And cheaper than a sniffer.

Oh...don't count on vent temps dropping a whole lot more period. Evap temps will probably drop as low as 35 to 40 (vent temps are higher as the air warms somewhat between the evap and the vents). They might get colder, as our ambient temps have been cooler lately. Remember that relative humidity and ambient exterior temps have a LOT to do with it all.

9/3/2005 11:35:49 PM

yeah i know, but my low side isnt getting any higher than about 40 max and tapers off

you can feel it while driving that its not cold enough

ill be happy when in the cool morning air my vent temp is a ball-shrinking 35 degrees and i have to cut it off



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9/3/2005 11:48:09 PM

Buy a seal kit if you can. I got one for Old Blue (86 626) while in HS and fixed my leaking seal for $19, then converted it to 134a. Ran for at least 6 more years just like that. Was traded in for another car so I don't know if it's still working. The dealer might have a seal kit.

9/4/2005 12:15:42 AM

what kinda honda compressor you need? at work we got civic/accord/maybe oddysey ones.

9/4/2005 1:10:32 AM

i need a compressor's clutch assembly for a




the compressor is fine, so just the clutch assembly is all i need

9/4/2005 3:20:25 AM

Any of the Gen1/Gen2/Gen3 Teg compressors will likely work. Mine is a 10P15 with a standard v-belt clutch, but I'm willing to bet that a 10PA15 with the serp belt clutch will work fine; I can just swap clutches.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of earlier civics may have used the same compressor.

I know that the later models use a scroll style compressor, which would require new lines to be fabbed, and I don't want to do all that bullshit (though I can if need be).

9/4/2005 1:00:03 PM