Date:         Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:21:51 -0700
Reply-To:     jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM
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From:         Jeff at Vanagonparts <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Air Conditioning Work?...Salt Lake
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$2K???  I sincerely hope you never go back to whomever did the work.

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Michael Rule
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:30 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Air Conditioning Work?...Salt Lake


Hi Andree,

I can't offer troubleshooting advice, I'll leave it to the more
knowledgeable people here- but...

Be prepared, if you open that can of worms, for the possibility of
great expense and problems!  Between the age of the parts, and the
increased (I believe) pressure of the 134a conversion, I blew
apart pieces-and-hose after each new piece was replaced; each
weakest link in the chain going next.
I started with a broken compressor, and it went from there.
$2K later it's great to have here in FL, but my savings account
aches!

Good Luck,
mike


On Fri Jul 02 13:03:58 EDT 2004, "A. Hurley" <ahurley@VIEWIT.COM>
wrote:

> Maybe this too silly a question - but I bought my '85 Westy and
> the air
> conditioning doesn't work. Is there and easy way to tell if it
> has just
> been disabled or if it is actually broken? the belts are hooked
> up.
>
> From what I gather to get it to work I might need to convert is
> anyway
> which sounds very expensive!
>
> I want to drive from Seattle to Salt Lake in August - might just
> need to
> do it at night!
>
> Would also like to collect some references for mechanics out that
> way..
>
> Andree
>
> Andree Hurley
> http://www.viewit.com
> KIX Summer Newsletter:
> http://onwatersports.com/KIX/Newsletters/KayakNewsletterJune04.html
>
>



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The trick is to listen to what the experiments tell you -
and to not be fooled by the myths of authorities --
Constantine Spyropoulos (1928-1984)