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I'm sure I started a thread about it so far back ago, I'm too lazy and brain dead to go find it.
The first warm day of this year, guess what? Red's A/C doesn't work. Cut to the chase:
Matt suggested I take to his buddy in Ringgold who could surely take care of it. Did I do that? No, it's a long way, a half-day adventure dropping off the car and picking it back up instead of a few minutes here in town.
One of you guys suggested that no matter what was wrong with it, the locals would install a new compressor. DING! Big bucks right there, and it sure did happen.
The locals said the old compressor was leaking, holes all in it, etc. No gas in the system, so that's what it was.
A month later, no A/C. Seems the gas leaked out again. So slow, they can't find it (at the local shop). So they recharged it and shot dye in it.
Another month, quit again. The leak is so slow they STILL can't find it, so they recharged it and put a DOUBLE shot of dye in it.
Another month, quit again. This time you could see where it was leaking, even I (uppercase I) could see it with the naked eye. Right there at the end of the tube where I guess you put the gas in it. Sticking up there beside the engine block.
"I can fix that" said the guy. It's the plug on the end of that pipe. When I went back to get Red the guy was complaining that the plug was hard to get out, didn't seem to be the original plug. He put a new one in, but wasn't sure if that would fix the leak.
If it didn't fix the leak, Red would need a whole new pipe-thing, whatever the heck he was talking about.
So that didn't fix it. So I took Red up there yesterday and the "guy" is on vacation this week. The only guy who knows the story.
It's too hot to drive Red. He gets so blinkin hot baking in the sun, black interior, AND no A/C....at least in a month my leg has ever so slowly gotten better enough to push the clutch in. My leg's healing about as fast as Red is leaking. Real slow.
So it seems nobody can fix him OR me in a hurry.
The first warm day of this year, guess what? Red's A/C doesn't work. Cut to the chase:
Matt suggested I take to his buddy in Ringgold who could surely take care of it. Did I do that? No, it's a long way, a half-day adventure dropping off the car and picking it back up instead of a few minutes here in town.
One of you guys suggested that no matter what was wrong with it, the locals would install a new compressor. DING! Big bucks right there, and it sure did happen.
The locals said the old compressor was leaking, holes all in it, etc. No gas in the system, so that's what it was.
A month later, no A/C. Seems the gas leaked out again. So slow, they can't find it (at the local shop). So they recharged it and shot dye in it.
Another month, quit again. The leak is so slow they STILL can't find it, so they recharged it and put a DOUBLE shot of dye in it.
Another month, quit again. This time you could see where it was leaking, even I (uppercase I) could see it with the naked eye. Right there at the end of the tube where I guess you put the gas in it. Sticking up there beside the engine block.
"I can fix that" said the guy. It's the plug on the end of that pipe. When I went back to get Red the guy was complaining that the plug was hard to get out, didn't seem to be the original plug. He put a new one in, but wasn't sure if that would fix the leak.
If it didn't fix the leak, Red would need a whole new pipe-thing, whatever the heck he was talking about.
So that didn't fix it. So I took Red up there yesterday and the "guy" is on vacation this week. The only guy who knows the story.
It's too hot to drive Red. He gets so blinkin hot baking in the sun, black interior, AND no A/C....at least in a month my leg has ever so slowly gotten better enough to push the clutch in. My leg's healing about as fast as Red is leaking. Real slow.
So it seems nobody can fix him OR me in a hurry.
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