Thread: Air conditioning issue

I had purchased a canister of re-charge that had a gauge on it and a co-worker re-filled it this last summer (it didn't need as much re-charging as I thought I just wanted it topped off for summer last year) and he used about half of the bottle. I used it all last summer, it worked fine, and most of this summer it worked fine until that happened.

When I plug in the re-charge canister and check the gauge can someone tell me what the pressure should be at or how "full" the system should be?

A co-worker took that canister that I had, and it showed that I was 15 pounds below what I was supposed to be at. He went ahead and put the rest of the can in, and we could feel the air in the car get slightly cooler and at the same time we could hear it leaking out and then 2 hours later when I came back to my car tried the AC and it didn't work. So, I'm going to assume that one of the O rings blew out. I'm going to, as soon as I can afford it, buy some dye and see where it is and hopefully get it fixed. I may just take this opportunity to replace all seals (when one goes the others are prolly pretty close to going), get the system vacumed and dried (if water got in it) and re-filled

Also, just as a suggestion, in my area R134a doubled in price and is said to double again in the next month - 2 months (they are switching to a new substance). a 30lb canister here is now 170 (used to be 90). I'm going to invest in 1 or 2 30lb canisters before they go up again.