Automotive Air Conditioning Information Forum

It helps if you have a UV flashlight and turn the lights off in the shop (or just wait until dark), to look for leaks. They'll show up all right.

But if something in your A/C has really opened up and hosed down the whole engine compartment, the dye won't tell you much except that there is a big ...

... and spilled its guts all over the road - screaming its head off, until it ran out of refrigerant.

Photo of hole:
Has *Anybody* seen an A/C compressor do *that*?

Obviously it had overpressure "Issues"... But how the **** could it do *That*?