on the way
everything mentioned (in posts and comments) needed(and some not mentioned; gaskets n such.) purchased and on their way, along with a lifter extraction tool (another of those things considered a once a year tool that I had let go once upon a time. 😦 )
As I said to Brudda B in a text here,,, “Gonna be a long month as I get this shit done, and a long year as I pay it all off.”
but done will be DONE, and all the upper gaskets will be replaced since I purt much have to pull the upper half apart to do this. (as well as the oil pan to replace that oil pump,,,) Leaks should be a thing of the past, right? Don’t jinx this Dood!!!
Easy does it till then. I will likely swap over J.O.B. tools to Buffalo for the week or so until I can dig in and get this shit over with.
Cool note to the aside here: I was cleaning up the shed, realized I had an almost full can of 134a on hand. what the hell, can’t hurt anything anymore than is already,,,
plugged it in, and opened the valve, and suddenly the compressor started cycling. really wasn’t down all that much, and while not full now, is damned close. AC Works!!! Not a major concern this time of year, but when things start warming up and getting wetter, clearing windows of fog is a huge bonus, and later when HOT,, well, yeah,,, I don’t really like using AC in the hicles, but there are times, (like when leaving work and wanting to cool off a bit) its a bonus. I much prefer to stay acclimated to the weather, and AC messes with my sinuses enough that I am quite frugal with its use. (to be quite frank about it: the only time I have used the AC in Buffalo was when I was driving Da around during the summer. He doesn’t handle the heat like I do.)
so,, AC works, parts a-coming, more debt to deal with, but I’m in a better frame of mind right now. NOW, if the weather holds for a bit longer so I don’t need to use Da’s basement garage for this crap (I actually prefer outside work, if I ain’t freezzing my arse off.)
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Cool beanz!134A, huh? Don’t even remember the last time I saw that. Ain’t a-gonna say a dam thing😉 Mike
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January 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Hell, I was a tyke in the middle of the transistion from r12 to 134a. We used to make bank refitting systems to ‘the new stuff’. Got real good at changing evap cores in Toyotas, musta done 100 or more over one summer.
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January 4, 2026 at 8:26 pm
one of my early projects that I was called to prototype as a newly minted train driver (Engineer)
a friend that I’d worked on another project with gave me a buzz and asked if I was interested in designing a solar assisted heat pump. Sure why not, said i…
big mistake I chose R12… not knowing that the aubergine was getting ready to ban that juice !
well it was very efficient and sold really well. Until uncle sugar changed the rules. This was before 134 , so there was no good substitute for R12. That business went kaboom for lack of operational gas. R. Reagan doing away with incentives didn’t help either. Once in awhile I build one for a friend using 134 even now 45 years later.
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January 6, 2026 at 7:01 am
It was all that Gore-Bal warmeningcoolinghair on fire run in circles screaming “the worlds gonna burn’ crap that killed R-12,,, or at least thats my remembrance of it. I bought into it at one point myself until two pictures brought the lie into focus. One was of Plymouth Rock, the one that sits at the tide line and has since the 1600’s. Still at tide line even though our oceans are ‘rising’,,, explain that peeps?
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January 6, 2026 at 7:05 am
I really need to proof read my posts ( the word aubergine was meant to be Goobermant !
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January 6, 2026 at 7:07 am
The science was valid , but as per usual the application was not. When during this same time frame , Mount Pinatubo in the PI was pumping out more natural florocarbons in a day than total production of R 1 2 was for a ten year period.
our stupidity knows no bounds when it comes to logic and profit
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January 6, 2026 at 7:19 am