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Ok...I found 2 fittings/ports just under the air box....

is that were I will have to recharge?

which one is it if it is....and if not where is it? make sense? i hope :lol:

 

I bought a recharge kit and want to do it ASAP...humidity coming again

tomorrow!

 

Thanks guys!

 

P.S. its my 96 GP 3100 SE

Posted

that IS where you recharge it....the kit will only fit one of the connections.....pretty damn easy to do....good luck...

Posted

Found it ....Filled it....listened to it all leak out...

 

k...

I think i hear hissing coming from the top driverside of the radiator?

 

Make any sense to anyone?

 

thanks! :cry:

Posted

Sounds to me like either your condenser has a hole in it or there's a loose fitting connecting one of the lines to the condenser. I'd say it's probably the fitting because I had one work loose on my wife's old Cavalier once. I tightened it up and filled the system and it never leaked again...

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So...is the condensor easy to replace ....and should

i be in good shape after ?

 

and whats the damage $

 

thanks!

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GM = Condensor
I did not know that, or as Lumbergh would say: "Oooooh, yeeaaah, um, I was un-aware of any differences in spelling." :lol:

 

FWIW, my line of thinking is more along the lines of building HVAC systems...

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The condensor probably isn't that hard to replace. But before you do, you should try this new kind of leak stopper (its not for rubber seals but for metal)

http://www.id-usa.com/product.asp?CID=31&PID=105

It's only like 15$ and if the hole isn't that big, it might seal it up.

 

I will definatley look into this...

 

Thanks!

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Okay, in my experience of 2 almost 3 years working in an auto shop and owning a GM with a condensor that is bad GM's have condensor problems 95% of the time.

 

If you heard refrigerant hissing out Dude stop leak is not going to fix it. check the lines but I would put money on the fact that the condensor is bad.

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The one question still hasn't been answered... how much is a condenser?

 

I want to eventually get the A/C running in my '95 and I don't know what is wrong with it, except I'm pretty sure it has no charge in it..

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Okay, in my experience of 2 almost 3 years working in an auto shop and owning a GM with a condensor that is bad GM's have condensor problems 95% of the time.

 

If you heard refrigerant hissing out Dude stop leak is not going to fix it. check the lines but I would put money on the fact that the condensor is bad.

 

OH ya...condensor shot...

Refrigerant and stopleak pissed right out of that bad boy...

wasted a few bucks there....oh well

 

sounds like I should buy New on the condensor then huh?

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same happened to me ... a guy at autozone pointed to me that there was dye in the A/C ... and warned me of a possible leak ... well I still get pretty damn cold so ... well makes me wonder what happened... well why they did that ...

 

i do have a leak though. i saw it coming through my vents ...

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Stop leak is a band aid.......a shitty one..........never use it......on anything.......you are asking for much larger problems down the road. Fix it right.

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