What’s your threshold? This is inland along the Rocky Mountain Trench. Yep, the tops of the mountains have snow in July but it has hit 100 F on occasion in the valley. Here are some temps from last summer.
True. The nice thing about hydrocarbon refrigerant is that you don’t have to pull it out. You let it rip to the atmosphere ( but not in your garage). It’s not regulated in that sense in Canada and Europe. Sort of like that puff of propane that gets released to the atmosphere when filling a tank. That makes it easier for a shade tree mechanic to work on the system then pull a vacuum and refill it. Cost wise I can get it for about a dollar an ounce. Still, that’s $48 to fill my Burb with front and rear A/C. I have one connection that shows dye, but am looking into it more.
Bring it here!
I bought the car for my little sister to drive as a first car. She’s been driving it for a year now and I’ll be honest, I didn’t fix it right initially because I wasn’t sure whether the car would be in 1 piece or not at this point. Somehow she hasn’t totaled it so maybe it’ll get a treat
I make tons of high side ac hoses for those cars. Seems to be a common failure point.
That’s why I use it for diagnosis in older cars before wasting valuable r-12. If it leaks a while I’m not concerned.
The good refrigerant detectors are more like $150 to $200.
That is what I thought since the ones we used professionally in industrial manufacturing (Bacharach H-10) costs >$1000. However, the $22 Elitech unit I purchased has found every small and large leak in the 5 vehicles I have serviced (for both R-12 and R134a refrigerant leaks) since 2019. It also located a microscopic R-22 evaporator leak in a York home HVAC unit.
