Agree, one must use the special AC O-rings, typically green NBR.

Hardware store O-rings are for water, not refrigerant or automotive fluids.

The first thing to check is whether you have the correct amount of refrigerant in the system, which would require recovering and weighing it. A professional shop having a Recover/Recycle/Recharge (RRR) machine will be able to tell you that, as long as you don't have any alternative refrigerants, mi...

the stop leak....Well, I've vacuumed it about 3 times now so maybe it's mostly gone? No, it's still in the system. But maybe you'll be lucky. Likely your 2013 just lost a little R134a over time. The right thing to do first thing - would've been to have a shop evacuate the refrigerant and weigh it, ...

Zardiw wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:31 pm Also when this first stated I added a can of stop leak....fwiw

NOT GOOD !!!

That recovery machine is supposed to pull out oil, i thought, and separate. It didn't pull any oil out of my 2002. Maybe I should add some oil? As far as I know - and I'm not an AC professional - very little oil will be pulled out by the vacuum, either with a recovery machine or when pulling a vacu...

I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with you re-using your own refrigerant. I have done similar on my vehicles with both R-12 and R134a.

Yes, I still have one truck on R-12.

I’m on this forum because I have always taken care of my own AC issues. ....... It was time to be more professional with my AC work….. Generally my approach has been to remove R-134 from the system, evacuate, see if it hold the vacuum, then replace the R-134 with the spec for the car. So far I have...

However on 2 separate occasions now if I park the truck in direct sunlight where temperatures under the hood rise from sitting all day when I first crank the truck the relief valve on the compressor has popped and vented off freon on 2 separate occasions. This is not normal. Attach some service gau...

Other issues I have noticed are sitting idle my AC is colder versus driving down the road and also it is colder on a lower fan speed versus max fan. I can comment only on this part. It is normal for the air at the vents to be at a lower temperature at lower blower fan speeds because the air has mor...

For several reasons, I recommend replacing the condenser. Tim at ACKits.com, this Forum's sponsor, can supply the best part at the right price. This ! Condenser has been mangled. Ensure that the radiator is in good shape, too. This; and make sure all the electric fans behind the radiator are coming...