Doughnuts
Newbie
Hello all!
I'm curious on what it would take for a diy'er to put in an new air conditioning setup . So let me preface this first .
Probably the last warm day of 2017, I was running around with my ac on and the compressor decided to kick the bucket and lock up on me . I kinda figured it was on it's way out with dumping r134 in an r12 system that's 27 years old. And summer is now upon us in this humid Missouri climate, and I have a few road trips coming up and I'd really prefer to have it back working again .
So my questions are this, is there a way just to free up the compressor the cheap and dirty way? Or would I just be better off rebuilding it? And if rebuilding it is the answer, then what would that entail? I can pick up a Murray ac oem replacement for like 170 Bucks but what else would I need and what would I have to do, to do it myself? Or would it be more economical to have a shop do it all? As of now I was planning on having a shop drain the system, then I would replace the compressor and what ever else I might need and then pump some new freon in. I've also heard that one should have the system flushed before putting in anything new?
Unfortunately ac is a bit out of my wheelhouse . So any insight would greatly be appreciated.
It's a 1991 c1500 350
I'm curious on what it would take for a diy'er to put in an new air conditioning setup . So let me preface this first .
Probably the last warm day of 2017, I was running around with my ac on and the compressor decided to kick the bucket and lock up on me . I kinda figured it was on it's way out with dumping r134 in an r12 system that's 27 years old. And summer is now upon us in this humid Missouri climate, and I have a few road trips coming up and I'd really prefer to have it back working again .
So my questions are this, is there a way just to free up the compressor the cheap and dirty way? Or would I just be better off rebuilding it? And if rebuilding it is the answer, then what would that entail? I can pick up a Murray ac oem replacement for like 170 Bucks but what else would I need and what would I have to do, to do it myself? Or would it be more economical to have a shop do it all? As of now I was planning on having a shop drain the system, then I would replace the compressor and what ever else I might need and then pump some new freon in. I've also heard that one should have the system flushed before putting in anything new?
Unfortunately ac is a bit out of my wheelhouse . So any insight would greatly be appreciated.
It's a 1991 c1500 350