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Old Jul 5, 2010 | 04:32 PM
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Can someone tell me what this issue may be? Attempted to put in freon in the lower port, a/c guage showed warning and began to go into the red area. the compressor kicked in once, It began to charge but no cold air. Any ideas would be helpful!

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Old Jul 5, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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Are you sure you tried to charge thru the low side? This would be the port on the accumulator located on the passenger side.

How has the system acted prior to your attempted recharge?
 
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Old Jul 5, 2010 | 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by redlightning93
Are you sure you tried to charge thru the low side? This would be the port on the accumulator located on the passenger side.

How has the system acted prior to your attempted recharge?
Yes, I charged through to low side. I bought the truck last year with air not working. I figured I would try to charge it to see what the results would be. I may try to jump off the compressor to see if it is working properly, It did kick in when I first started to charge it, but quit.
 
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I would suggest to use a manifold gauge set to view the pressure on the low and high side. Most common cause of no compressor on/off when the pressures are in range is a bad low pressure/clutch cycling switch. I have seen a few go bad in my experience.

If the high side pressure is high and the vent temperatures are also high it could be a plugged condenser or bad compressor.
 
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