951Tom

Another great alternative to buying new a/c hose is to have a local hydraulic hose shop install new rubber hose on your existing metal lines. I've gotten phone estimates of $25-$75.

Tom R.

i had my system converted at a friends shop. we changed the evaporator, installed new o rings and added oil to the system.

two summers of blissful cold, and the original hoses. if it ever warms up here i will tell you if the hoses are good for a third season.

craig001

If you do a search there have been numerous threads about this. F18 Rep is right about pulling a vacuum. The pain of it is where the fill points are. You have to get that right. I was lucky and got a 20 lb. bottle of R-12 with about 16 pounds in it from a guy at work. It was basically a steal! But the other reason to have a shop do it is to keep the stuff out of the atmosphere which was the reasoning behind the shift to R-134a. Griffiths has a good site on this.

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Oops, forgot to read page 2 before page 3. Saw you all ready had contacted Griffiths.

Thaddeus

My PO had the conversion done. It blows cold. Also, I converted my wife's Volvo 2 weeks ago.. It blew cold, until the leaky condensor (cause of the failure in the first place, I guess) caught up with me. I'll be replacing the condensor, and away we'll go. I don't much care if the air coming out of the vent is 67 degrees instead of 64, or whatever the differential is between R12 and R134a... it will still be way nicer than 95 and muggy.