The compressor is leaking...again. I'll remove the compressor tomorrow early in the morning and they'll fix it under warranty. And, while down there reassembling the cat converter, found me a nice oil leak coming from the oil cooler (and the hits keep on coming). I'm thinking the cooler's o-ring failed, causing the leak. Ain't Vanagons grand... Oh, well, gotta love 'em. Héctor 1990 Carat 'Ursula' By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, John Goubeaux <john@ucsb.edu> wrote: > Good luck. I will be curious to know what the "AC shop" tells you as well > as what they do to trbl shoot the system. > > Once you got the car to run cooler and the Hi speed fan to not run did the > AC compressor engage as it should ? > > I recently refit my AC to r134, replaced the compressor and tried to do all > the work myself and admittedly did not really know what I was doing but > learned as i went and got it to work however. > I did though, after several weeks, discover that a leak at one of the > service valves caused the pressure to drop and the clutch will not engage > now (normal with low pressure i guess) > I am going to replace the faulty valve and re-pressurize with refrigerant > this weekend and hopefully it will be back to normal. > > -john > > Well, found the cat converter is bad, might be why the van had no power in >> high gear and was running the cooling fan so often, (sigh). Still taking >> it >> to the a/c shop later to have the pressures checked, still have some of >> the >> warranty left. Thanks again, guys. >> >> Héctor >> 1990 Carat 'Ursula' >> >> By three methods we may learn wisdom: >> First, by reflection, which is noblest; >> Second, by imitation, which is easiest; >> and third by experience, which is the bitterest. >> Confucius >> >> >> . >> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Hector Zapata <hlzapata@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> I have a question that hopefully somebody will be able to answer. My a/c >>> stops blowing cool air everytime the cooling fan kicks in high speed. I >>> checked the archives, looked at a couple of wiring diagrams, but can't >>> figure it out. I have this notion that somewhere I read that this happens >>> so >>> because the pressure of the a/c system gets too high and the pressure >>> switch >>> disengages the compressor's clutch, or something to that effect. It sucks >>> to >>> not have cool air blowing out the vents when I need it the most, when >>> it's >>> cooking around the high 90s outside. Any thoghts or ideas? TIA >>> >>> >>> >> >
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