I'm not an AC professional, and don't know much about Subarus except that my daughter drives one. But I think I would test the blower resistor for the blower fan. Since at times you have no positive voltage getting to the AC compressor clutch, sure sounds like an electrical issue as opposed to a com...

I cut open my old drier once. A drier is essentially a metal can that contains a small bag of desiccant pellets; you'd be surprised how small that bag is. However, if that bag breaks and pellets get stuck in your system, you'd be in deep doo-doo.

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event3horizon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:44 am Interesting. So dry ice is much colder than water ice I read? I guess that is what does the trick to pull it all out. Thanks for sharing your experience on this.

I used dry ice and waste alcohol solvent to get the canister cold.

If you use water and ice, use salt water.

Whenever evacuating a system, be sure to fully open both the low-side (blue) and high-side (red) handwheels on your Manifold Gauge Set. It's only when charging a system that you need to be 100-percent certain to keep the high-side handwheel closed. The reason is personal safety. Consider that the h...

I have done similar with both R-12 and later with R134a (still have one vehicle on R-12). I have used my vacuum pump and a small canister no longer needed by my workplace to recover R-12. Nowadays, I'd have to buy dry ice to do this (some grocery stores), I'd use surplus dry ice from work back then,...

How many ounces of oil - if any - did you measure when you drained the old compressor???

Assuming you did the comp install yourself, the correct procedure is to drain out the shipping oil that came with the new comp, being sure to measure how much you got by draining into a paint cup or similar. Then installing the equivalent amount of the correct fresh oil, and in the process rotating...

msrichmond wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 6:13 pm Is there some kind of tool that makes it easy to spin the inner part? It looks like there are holes drilled for something.

There's no center nut on that compressor drive plate on which you can put a socket to turn it??? Post a picture so we can see the drive plate then.

And don't overlook kids' soap bubbles either ! Soap bubbles is how I confirmed a leak right in the center of my 1988 B2200 evaporator back in 2000. I drove cross-town, picked up a new evaporator at Tim's shop on W. Clarendon, and my 9-year-old daughter installed it. It's still there operating to thi...