Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 05:47:46 -0500
Reply-To: Tarheel <puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Tarheel <puzerewski@EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Subject: Re: AC Freon
Hogwash!!!!!
What do you think happens to the freon in all the old a/c units in cars, old
refrigerators, etc.? It goes right thru the shredder at the scrap
yard/steel mill and into the blast furnace (the freon released to the air).
Do not be fooled by these overly stringent government regs.
If it is swapped to R-134, he can buy the stuff at Wal-Mart.
If it has not been swapped, he can buy the kit and wtill do it himself.
Maybe pay someone to put a vacuum pump on it. I have done this on at least
5 vehicles in the driveway and have never had a problem.
Sometimes a new o-ring is needed if there was no coolant in the system prior
to my adding freon. That is about all.
Adam Puzerewski
81 westy
74 beetle
86 cabrio
Vanagon Partsmobiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Mages" <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] AC Freon
> hehehe - surely you aren't serious.
>
> If you can even get freon (very illegal unless you are
> a certified mechanic) you need a recovery tank, and a
> bunch of other $$$ equipment to do it correctly.
>
> Since 1991, you only option is pretty much to go to a
> mechanic, and pay exorbitantly high fees to have your
> AC system recharged. I have never had work done on
> the AC system where it cost less than $500. They
> always find a 'problem' with the drier, evaporator,
> clamps, hoses....
>
> Unless you live where it is very hot, I wouldn't even
> bother. a totally rebuilt Westy AC system barely kept
> my vanagon bareable in the Houston summers, and it
> sucked so much power from the engine I got in the
> habit of driving around in my boxers and drinking a
> lot of AquaFina.
>
> Just my .02
> Mark
> --- timnew <timnew@PACBELL.NET> wrote:
> > I want to put some AC freon in my 86 GL. I've never
> > done this before. What
> > kind of freon do I need? what other equipment might
> > I need? where do I
> > install the freon?
> >
> > Tim
> > 86 GL
>
>
> =====
> Mark
> Music is the soundtrack to the Low Budget B-movie that is my life.
>
> 87 Westfalia Gl
> 84 Scirocco 8v
> http://student.fortlewis.edu/~mwmages/
>
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