Date:         Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:47:40 -0700
Reply-To:     harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Refrigerate Oil
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Yi_Ruey Wei wrote:
> IMHO, may be you don't have enough refrigerate oil in
> your compressor.  I remember it takes 54oz. of oil just for compressor
> only.  It's a lot! But when I dumped the old oil from my compressor 3
years ago,
> it was only 10fl.oz. left.
> Since I put 54 oz + more (to compensate the oil lost from condenser (need
40 >additional oz???)

Think that you got the quantities for refrigerant and oil mixed up.
According to Bentley,
Refrigerant R-12 (50.75 oz)

Refrigerant oil (which is separate item):
evaporator    2.02 oz
accumulator 0.3 oz
high pressure hose 0.3 oz
low pressure hose 0.3 oz
compressor only takes 5.07 oz

If you use Refrigerant R134a,
you are supposed to put
only about 9 oz of oil in the compressor

Harald
'90 westy