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Looking for a low pressure port on the AC system 200 1989

posted by  rstarkie on  Tue Jun 20 15:20 CST 2017
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1989 244 89K

This car (Carmen) had a dormant R12 system in place.

I had a donor car that had been converted to 134A. This donor was working fine with a new compressor when I purchased it.

I removed the new compressor (Tama) from the donor car and put it and the 134A high pressure port in place on Carmen several years ago. I did not pursue charging it at that time.

I am preparing Carmen for sale and want to see about charging the AC system. I expected to find a low pressure port on the back of the compressor, but as you can see from the photo there isn't one there.

How would the system have been charged without a low pressure port? How would I go about installing a low pressure port on this system.

Thanks for any help,
Randy

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    Looking for a low pressure port on the AC system 200 1989

    posted by  bcg on  Tue Jun 20 22:24 CST 2017
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    randy,
    if you want to splice a port on the high side, take the hose to a hose shop where they can splice and crimp it properly.

    if you do go this route, i suggest an extra hose that's not spliced as a backup hose if you have problems with the splice years down the road.

    regards,
    byron golden
    86 245
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    Looking for a low pressure port on the AC system 200 1989

    uid 33936's pic
    posted by  TheBrickTank on  Tue Jun 20 16:00 CST 2017
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    You can't put a Low pressure port on the compressor.

    You can charge the system without a low pressure side port. The down side is that you can't see both pressures.

    However, you should be able to splice a low pressure port into the low pressure hose, though I have no experience with that.

    Matt






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