Upgrading A/C hoses to barrier hose for R134a?
- Thread starter GrimJack
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A new dryer is a MUST! R-12 is not compatible with R134, and this is the last link in preventing contamination of the two when converting. Besides they only go for around $20 at autozone. As to the conversion, I never switched the hoses on my conversion, and its cold enough, now you got me wondering if I did swithc out the hoses, would it even get colder? Heads up, as soon as I converted a freind of mine informed me that he has almost 32lbs of R12 in his garage, cheap! Im now thinking of going back, as R12 runs colder in our systems then r134.
No, the hoses won't make it run colder, they will just make it run longer. With that said, mine has run cold for a decade after the conversion, so the old style hoses obviously don't leak very much or very fast.SupraLover;1379758 said:
aeroquipe is you best bet
catalog http://hydraulics.eaton.com/products/pdfs/fc/A-SPPE-MC001-E2.pdf
a/c only http://hydraulics.eaton.com/products/pdfs/fc/a-sppe-ms002-e.pdf
mo pack has hole wall of that stuff should be easy to Peace some thing together
catalog http://hydraulics.eaton.com/products/pdfs/fc/A-SPPE-MC001-E2.pdf
a/c only http://hydraulics.eaton.com/products/pdfs/fc/a-sppe-ms002-e.pdf
mo pack has hole wall of that stuff should be easy to Peace some thing together
NashMan;1380906 said:
Wow, that is some nice hoses, I wouldn't mind making my own hoses with those...........the only problem I see is that they don't offer Metric Fittings.
Grim: Honestly, this might just be like the o-rings where it's hit or miss if they really have to be changed.
As my hoses are toast (well, one was, but might as well rebuild the system), I bought new ones and they are supposedly R134 ready (comes with the green o-rings)
As my hoses are toast (well, one was, but might as well rebuild the system), I bought new ones and they are supposedly R134 ready (comes with the green o-rings)
I was reading a previous post from JJ where he explained that hoses built for R12 will leak R134a, even though the leaks are small and slow, I like to have everything work on my car at least as well as it did off the showroom floor. 