turbojimmy
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I don't remember if it was always like this, but....
I finally got around to replacing the a/c lines on the GN (compressor to accumulator and condenser). I had converted it to R134a a couple of years ago but it all leaked out because of the bad lines. It worked fine after the conversion.
I vacuumed it down for about an hour. I charged it up so I got around 35 on the low side and 230-240 on the high side. I used R134a "treatment". It supposedly has oil and some "supercool" additive. It was all Wal Mart had. Anyhow, ambient temps are in the mid-high 80s and humidity is darn near 100%.
The A/C works AWESOME - man did I miss it. The Four Seizens compressor sounds like a box of rocks (grrrr - it's not very old, probably 5k miles on it), but it still works. I got back from a drive and went to hook the gauges back up to check it out and touched the high side and OWWWW! it was f'n hot. Like way too hot to touch.
Is this normal? The old lines had that black coating on it and these don't. Maybe they've always been hot but insulated?
TIA,
Jim
I finally got around to replacing the a/c lines on the GN (compressor to accumulator and condenser). I had converted it to R134a a couple of years ago but it all leaked out because of the bad lines. It worked fine after the conversion.
I vacuumed it down for about an hour. I charged it up so I got around 35 on the low side and 230-240 on the high side. I used R134a "treatment". It supposedly has oil and some "supercool" additive. It was all Wal Mart had. Anyhow, ambient temps are in the mid-high 80s and humidity is darn near 100%.
The A/C works AWESOME - man did I miss it. The Four Seizens compressor sounds like a box of rocks (grrrr - it's not very old, probably 5k miles on it), but it still works. I got back from a drive and went to hook the gauges back up to check it out and touched the high side and OWWWW! it was f'n hot. Like way too hot to touch.
Is this normal? The old lines had that black coating on it and these don't. Maybe they've always been hot but insulated?
TIA,
Jim
