Replaced my compressor after I overcharged (70 on the low side) it and it made an awful screeching noise. This may have been unnecessary, my harmonic balancer came apart an it could have been the belt. I just finished a thread on that shenanigan. It seems like there is too much oil in the…
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In my son’s 09 OB 2.5i the air conditioning appears to not work or not work very well at all. I’ve added a bit of R134a to it with an old test gauge fill kit that I do not trust the gauge on at all. It reads a bit on the high zone when connected to the low pressure side fitting. The…
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Neither give a clear answer to the question of how much compressor oil is inside an OEM compressor (in my case an H6 auto climate). One says 3-5oz, one says 2oz but that’s for a semi.
My AC got various work done and refrigerant replacement so for sure has lost some of the original oil. I could see it coating the tools. Compressor is still the original.
I would like to know how much oil should be in a new OEM compressor. So far this looks like a mystery to me. FSM is saying to use the specified amount of oil but fails to list that under specifications.
