What have you done to your square lately??

[82sbshortbed]

Haha yes I know but all the videos I see cut the tint on the outside then transfer to inside

Yesir but make sure you have the clear side facing you when you cut it on the outside. So for the back you will have the clear facing away from you cutting from the inside. I was gonna say a tip Is to have a light on the inside while you cut from the outside to see to cut it better. But it looks like you won't need that tip for this time.

 

[TotalyHucked]

I've had this tag surround hanging in the shop for months now, finally cleaned out the bed and put this on lol

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[dec322]

Did two things:
1. Fun: Installed “new to me” tag on front of truck to complete the look.
2. Not fun but necessary: new u-joint on rear driveshaft/yoke and new output shaft seal. I think I may have a leak from the cover over the output shaft.

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[Goldie Driver]

Not so much what I did, but what I watched/helped slightly.

Evacuated the AC and replaced the orifice tube. As with any science experiment we are changing one variable at a time so this is the OE equivalent orifice.

Old one pictured.

Charge was - 4.5 lbs (2.05kg).

 

[bucket]

Not so much what I did, but what I watched/helped slightly.

Evacuated the AC and replaced the orifice tube. As with any science experiment we are changing one variable at a time so this is the OE equivalent orifice.

Old one pictured.

Charge was - 4.5 lbs (2.05kg).

Not much grit, so that's a good thing. The brown coloring in the oil residue isn't the best thing though.

 

[Goldie Driver]

Not much grit, so that's a good thing. The brown coloring in the oil residue isn't the best thing though.

Yeah - whenever I jump to phase 2 I think changing the receiver drier is the plan. Hoping that the brown is just old ac oil mixing with hose residue.

I should have gotten one this time but had tunnel vision...

Still chasing higher lower side pressures. 40 to 50 or so - should have taken a picture of the machine.

 

[Ajax19]

Not so much what I did, but what I watched/helped slightly.

Evacuated the AC and replaced the orifice tube. As with any science experiment we are changing one variable at a time so this is the OE equivalent orifice.

Old one pictured.

Charge was - 4.5 lbs (2.05kg).

I seen worse but that's not good need to flush the evap and lines drain the compressor and change the accumulator, if your running r134 you need to swap condensers if you have the tube style it won't cool right I'm assuming your doing this because it's
not cooling correctly don't forget you absolutely need to vacuum the system down before recharging just a few % air and will not cool correctly

 

[Ajax19]

Yeah - whenever I jump to phase 2 I think changing the receiver drier is the plan. Hoping that the brown is just old ac oil mixing with hose residue.

I should have gotten one this time but had tunnel vision...

Still chasing higher lower side pressures. 40 to 50 or so - should have taken a picture of the machine.

If your using a machine to fill there is high chance the refrigerant is contaminated when I ran a a/c shop we used a vacuum pump and a scale with a fresh tank of refrigerant only used the machine for evac and testing

 

[Ajax19]

@Goldie Driver make shure it's got a good fan clutch and seal up the condenser/rad/fan shroud with foam rubber etc.

 

[Goldie Driver]

I seen worse but that's not good need to flush the evap and lines drain the compressor and change the accumulator, if your running r134 you need to swap condensers if you have the tube style it won't cool right I'm assuming your doing this because it's
not cooling correctly don't forget you absolutely need to vacuum the system down before recharging just a few % air and will not cool correctly

Yes, it was a 134 machine and the refrigerant installed is recovered unless there is a shortage and then it pulls from the tank on the back. Part of the process is a vacuum test. The system is basically OE - it is possible that orifice was the original one or it may have been installed before I bought the truck as it came converted to 134. If that is the case it is 8 years old.

Part of my experiments will be a Ford blue orifice before I change out the condenser.

Not a fast process so far as right now I don't use it all the time. The AC, ir Goldie. LOL

 

[Ajax19]

Yes, it was a 134 machine and the refrigerant installed is recovered unless there is a shortage and then it pulls from the tank on the back. Part of the process is a vacuum test. The system is basically OE - it is possible that orifice was the original one or it may have been installed before I bought the truck as it came converted to 134. If that is the case it is 8 years old.

Part of my experiments will be a Ford blue orifice before I change out the condenser.

Not a fast process so far as right now I don't use it all the time. The AC, ir Goldie. LOL

The condenser will most likely net the biggest change especially if it's a tube and fin style the flat serpentine style will work slightly better and typically works for both r12-r134a the more modern parallel flow will work best with r134-r1234 we didn't mess with swapping orafice tubes to much but had a big selection of them and I can only vaguely remember swapping some around for some system we did with those it's all about diameter of the orafice should tell you on the package I would think a larger diameter would allow more flow potentially dropping the low side pressure but that doesn't mean it will cool better if the condenser can't keep up anyway I for one will be interested in your experiment also if you change the condenser most likely will change the amount of refrigerant needed will be less

 

[Grit dog]

Yes, it was a 134 machine and the refrigerant installed is recovered unless there is a shortage and then it pulls from the tank on the back. Part of the process is a vacuum test. The system is basically OE - it is possible that orifice was the original one or it may have been installed before I bought the truck as it came converted to 134. If that is the case it is 8 years old.

Part of my experiments will be a Ford blue orifice before I change out the condenser.

Not a fast process so far as right now I don't use it all the time. The AC, ir Goldie. LOL

Like the 3 days a year it’s not hot enough to need AC in Houston? Lol
Idk how y’all do it.

 

[Old Guy Bill]

I got a Summit aluminum radiator to replace the one in my '78 truck, it was seeping at the pitcock.
The width was exact but it was about 3/4" short for my application. I fabbed up some small short cup mounts for the lower rubbers. It fits nice and tight now.
Installed the RMS 7" round LEDs to replace the cheapo Amizon units I've been using. Put two new LMC horns in while the bezels were out.
I'll do a final headlight adjustment when I leave for work in the morning.

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[ThreeLRanch]

Repaired the cut up dash and ordered 2” tuff country lift and bils 1500
Hopefully get started on it this weekend.

 

[Z28 Guy]

Snapped this pic today.