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I don't suppose any local member owns an AC refrigerant recovery machine I could use to diagnose my better half's wagon?
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Group buy?I could use one myself. 4 cars to fix.
In hindsight I could have saved a few bucks by taking it around the corner where they were offering a $79.95 recharge special, but I trust Perjad to be honest and fair.It sucks when you don't have the tools to check or do things and you go to rip off experts.... you're lucky that you went to a good shop instead.
Looks kinda like a knock off of the Robin air portable unit we had at the shop. You still need a recovery tank and scale to complete it, and it doesn't recycle/filter the refrigerant like an actual recovery machine does. I'm pretty sure it didn't separate out the oil either. They work in a pinch/out on the road where a big recovery machine wouldn't work well. Whenever we got back to the shop we'd suck the refrigerant out of the recovery tank and run it through the machine, then charge another tank to take back out on the road with us. (Always kept a few tanks of new refrigerant on hand.) Best way we found to find leaks was pressurizing the system with 325psi of nitrogen if it held for ~15 minutes if it didn't leak under pressure, then vacuum to 25 microns. Which is unobtainable if the system leaks under vacuum. Nitrogen is pretty readily available, easy way to test the system. No need for a special micron gauge(it was a fast way for us to tell if the system was holding vac.), just make sure the system hold vac for ~15 minutes.Group buy?
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Good to know that it's still full after 22 years...My son went that route without asking me for advice first and paid the $79.95 to find out the system already had a full charge and get a quote for close to $2k to replace compressor and drier. I dunno how long the $40 Amazon clutch coil I just installed will last, but his wife and newborn are enjoying cool A/C for now.