<VV> A/C Usage Re: Corvair Miles

[FrankCB at aol.com]

JR and V Vers,
    The way to keep your AC (in any car) operating is  to use it 
periodically.  My 180 doesn't have AC, but the AC in my 95  TransSport is still 
working after 17 years and almost 160,000 miles.  I try  to run it at least 10 
minutes even in relatively mild days in almost EVERY  month of the year.  If it 
doesn't cool very much I add a can of 134a to it,  lately I've had to add 
as much as 2 cans.  But if you don't run it AT  ALL for many months the 
charge will gradually leak out so much  that air will begin to leak IN (due to 
day/night temp. changes) and dilute  the charge, whether it's R-12 or 134a.  
Once that happens the system needs  TOTAL evacuation to get the air out and 
that requires a DEEP VACUUM machine  operation which costs $$$$$ at an AC  
service station.  It's a lot  cheaper to run it regularly and add a few 
dollars of 12 or 134a when the cooling  effect starts to diminish.  That keeps the 
air out and, as we  know, AIR is a rather poor refrigerant.<GGGG>
    Frank "likes cooling" Burkhard
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/16/2012 9:08:37 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
hmlinc at sbcglobal.net writes:

In a  year when I attend convention, the convert can easily go 10,000 in 
the  
summer.  The top is always down unless it rains and this summer was  so hot 
that I did not take it out as often.  I even had the AC fixed  on my 
(normally) winter civilian car and drove it more in the summer than  I can 
remember.  The AC has not worked in at least 3, maybe 4 summers  because I 
hardly ever used it in summer months.

By the time I put  them both away this fall, I will likely put another 2 to 
3,000 miles  (total) on them.

Later,  JR