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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks agoThanks for the advice. How about do I approach the conversion. I assume you have to suck all of the r12 out of there is still residual, and then get an adapter that fits the input? Then check the seal? I know the connections didn’t match the ones for the r134.
GluWu@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Just look up conversions in general, I imaging there’s either YouTube videos or someone has posted all the steps with every little tip and trick for exactly that year and model on some site.
Releasing any of that into the atmosphere is “illegal” but if it doesn’t work then it was already all gone… right? I think so. A manifold and vacuum is expensive. The compressor is the big thing. You can run r134 through the original one but it isn’t as efficient and will eventually kill it, eventually. So hoses and fittings which are cheap and easy to do. Then just use the super easy Schrader valve cans to fill it up. Compressors run ~$500 I think but without that it can be done for less than $200, like $100 if you look around.
I can ask a few people but I dont think I’ve heard a r134 conversion including the compressor go for over a band.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’ll ask around. I’m in a fairly small town so someone around here likely has a way to get it done cheap. Probably the same guy who sells moonshine. You know you are in a small town when the liquor store, the bail bondman, and the bar owner are all the same person. His brother is an officer, how much money they have made each other I’ll never know
GluWu@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Lol. Yeah. Moonshine? Sketchy but cheap vehicle repairs? I wouldn’t know anything about that. I do know something about no liquor store, no court, no bailbonds, no officers. The mountains are wild but free.