I appreciate everyone's help so far. To avoid losing my temper & going into a long rant, let's just say that the following is a result of someone sticking their nose in my business, even though they were SPECIFICALLY asked not to. Anyway, a guy comes to my house & hooks up his gauges while I'm not there. He decides the system is low & adds two cans of R-12. Now the compressor no longer cycles erraticly, but it still doesn't cool like it should. He says either the dryer or the filter on the low side is clogged. Does this sound right? His reason is that the line to the evaporator is not "sweating". When I asked him how low it was, the only answer I could get was "it was low, but not low enough to hurt anything". If it wasn't low enough to hurt anything, why did it take two cans & why did this solve my compressor cycling problem? I didn't want to waste freon on a leaking system, but I guess this is the price I pay for UNINVITED HELP & for not locking my truck & hiding the keys while its parked in my OWN DRIVEWAY. I still think I have a pretty bad leak somewhere, since it worked fine & then suddenly stopped working (especially since it took two cans), but right now, it is fully charged & still doesn't cool properly. Does the clogged filter or dryer theory make sense, or is this guy just as clueless as me? I apologize for this being so vague, but, like I said, I wasn't there. Thanks for any input.

 

From the MACS manual (test booklet) revised 6/98. If you send me a real e-mail, I'll attach it to my reply, but beware: it's a 5.5M OCR, so it'll take a WHILE to dl, especially on dial-up. I've also sent it to my buddy at BroncoData so he should be putting it up on that site soon.

 

Steve83,

I snarffed it from BroncoData. Thanks much!

And thanks for your posts; they've been helpful. Maybe I'll run into you when out and about in Memphis...

 

I hope not!