In case people are curious - I took the van to my local Subaru shop for an opinion and they agreed that the house routing was not optimal. They also said they've seen a few stock hoses fail like this and recommended that I have a stronger hose made. So, I'm going to have the outlet line shortened to improve hose routing and have a better hose made. Thanks for all your input, Luke On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Luke Bakken <luke.bakken@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First some info - I have an '89 Syncro Westy with a 2003 Subaru 2.5 in > it, conversion done in 2004 by SmallCar. SC also hooked up the Subaru > A/C to the Vanagon system and until this year it worked fine. > > A month ago I noticed the A/C wasn't blowing cold at all, so I took it > to a local shop and they diagnosed it as having leaky old hoses. So > they put in new hoses to the front of the van and a new condenser from > Van Cafe. All was working well until yesterday as I was driving on the > interstate and heard a pop-hiss in the back. I immediately turned the > A/C off and pulled over to see this in the engine compartment: > > http://goo.gl/mt3FC > > You can see that not only did the Subaru A/C hose pop off, but it > split as well. This hose is no older than 9 years, of course. > > What do you think could cause this? Did the local shop overfill the > A/C system? I'm going to take the van back this Monday and any > information I could relay their way would be appreciated. > > Thanks - > Luke > |
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