I did my a/c this summer. I’ve been meaning to write up some notes that could help some others who are doing something similar, since I had a few hurdles to overcome.
I replaced my compressor, my condenser, orifice tube, and accumulator. I reused my hoses and evaporator. The condenser is a generic parallel flow unit that I got, since I didn’t turn up any drop-in parallel flow condensers (though I since learned that the one from… Rock Auto? is close.) I wanted a condenser that could get me max cooling in this Houston summer heat and humidity if I converted to R134a (I actually used a different refrigerant though).
I used the stock orifice tube, which is white.
I used this condenser:
http://www.ackits.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=85&product_id=35742
I used this refrigerant:
http://www.es-refrigerants.com/prod...ial-r134a-replacement-refrigerant/details.asp
Worst part of the whole conversion was getting the condenser mounted and the lines connected, that took me quite a while. I can provide details to anyone interested. And if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it the way I did it!
I replaced my compressor, my condenser, orifice tube, and accumulator. I reused my hoses and evaporator. The condenser is a generic parallel flow unit that I got, since I didn’t turn up any drop-in parallel flow condensers (though I since learned that the one from… Rock Auto? is close.) I wanted a condenser that could get me max cooling in this Houston summer heat and humidity if I converted to R134a (I actually used a different refrigerant though).
I used the stock orifice tube, which is white.
I used this condenser:
http://www.ackits.net/index.php?route=product/product&path=85&product_id=35742
I used this refrigerant:
http://www.es-refrigerants.com/prod...ial-r134a-replacement-refrigerant/details.asp
Worst part of the whole conversion was getting the condenser mounted and the lines connected, that took me quite a while. I can provide details to anyone interested. And if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it the way I did it!