turpehar
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Farmer City, IL
OK, so it turned hot and my recently purchased XJ's A/C didn't work when I turned it on. The girls in my carpool were not happy.
After doing some digging in this forum and some others, it became apperant that low/no refridgerant was the most common cause. I had already dianosed that power to all the components wer up to par. So I went to O'Riely Auto Parts and bought a decent gauge/fill kit and three cans of R134a with sealing additive.
I followed the directions. You can't screw this up because the fittings in this kit made it impossible to connect to the wrong side. I checked the low side and pressure was below 10psi, more like 5psi. I added one can of refridgerant and then it tested at 20psi. Added another can then tested at 35psi. The thrid can brought the pressure to the recommended 45psi and the high side tested at 225 which was the desired amount.
We can hang meat in there now. The jury is still out on a major leak, but I bet not.
Thanks for the help to those with previous problems that provided info.
After doing some digging in this forum and some others, it became apperant that low/no refridgerant was the most common cause. I had already dianosed that power to all the components wer up to par. So I went to O'Riely Auto Parts and bought a decent gauge/fill kit and three cans of R134a with sealing additive.
I followed the directions. You can't screw this up because the fittings in this kit made it impossible to connect to the wrong side. I checked the low side and pressure was below 10psi, more like 5psi. I added one can of refridgerant and then it tested at 20psi. Added another can then tested at 35psi. The thrid can brought the pressure to the recommended 45psi and the high side tested at 225 which was the desired amount.
We can hang meat in there now. The jury is still out on a major leak, but I bet not.
Thanks for the help to those with previous problems that provided info.