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Air Conditioners[ALL/1998] posted by Owen Woodland on
Tuesday, 26 August 1997, at 10:43 p.m.

For those not yet familiar with it, I have a 1976 244 DL
It has air conditioning, but after it was regassed last time,
a hose on it split, so bye bye [ozone depleting] refrigerant.
It's now illegal to get the stuff in Australia (What is it, R12 or
something like that). Is it possible to use the new style refrigerant
["non-ozone depleting", yeah right] into a system designed for the older
style. I get the feeling from what I have seen up to date that no, you
can't, but please, give me some input on this.

Thanks.

Owen in Australia

Re: Air Conditioners[ALL/1998] posted by Glenn R. Goodspeed on
Wednesday, 27 August 1997, at 9:11 p.m.

Check my web page for information about converting your refrigerant from R-12 to R134a. -Glenn.
Goodspeed's Volvo 1800 Newsletter

Re: Air Conditioners[ALL/1998] posted by Larry Maxwell on
Friday, 29 August 1997, at 12:09 p.m.

Owen,

One of the most popular alternative refrigerant is R-134. You can retrofit your system to R-134, but it could be rather costly depending on what you have done. R-134 has a higher boiling point than R-12 and generally will not cool as well as your original R-12 cooled. This would be noticable on very hot days and oin stop and go driving on hot days.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has a good website with lots of information about retrofiting a/c systems and alternative refrigerants.

Are you sure that R-12 is illlegal in Australia?

Good luck.

Larry

Re: Air Conditioners[ALL/1998] posted by Owen Woodland on
Sunday, 31 August 1997, at 6:09 p.m.

Yes, R12 is illegal, as is the Halon stuff they use in yellow fire extinguishers
(which is the sort that we have at home tee hee).

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