So, I took another afternoon to work on this yesterday. No improvement... At idle, after recovering the system, flushing the oil out, and replacing the accumulator, I made sure the compressor had 4oz of oil in it, and charged the system with 4oz oil. Then I filled with 2.0lbs of R134A, exactly the r...

It's a factory style condenser in the factory location. It's the same tube-and-fin as the original condenser, but I will do the hose test on it today to verify low heat rejection on the condenser. Brand new fan clutch, fan shroud, and condenser. The only thing in front of the condenser is an oil coo...

So this is working now-Charged today. Having some issues with it though, namely that it only works at idle. That's a program issue with the computer, I'll sort that. But, watching the gauges and measuring vent temperatures... I charged with 8oz PAG universal oil, and 1.8 lbs R134A-because I just cou...

That's good info-I have heard to use a "blue" tube or the automatic tube instead of the factory white tube.

I did not know if the orifice tube was sized based on working gas, coolant load, or evaporator size-so in this case the S10 should be fine with the OE tube.

This is my 4th A/C job, so far. I actually kinda like it-it's been a great skill to have! Anyway-my 1993-ish S10 standard cab pickup was pretty ratty and had the old R-4 compressor, and I was putting in remans every summer for the old boss-the company got sold and I bought the truck as I was the fle...