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Subject:Re: AC Freon
From:Eckie Prater
Date:Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:42:32 -0600

Subject: Re: AC Freon

> hehehe - surely you aren't serious.
>
> Unless you live where it is very hot, I wouldn't even
> bother.  a totally rebuilt Westy AC system barely kept
> my vanagon bareable in the Houston summers, and it
> sucked so much power from the engine I got in the
> habit of driving around in my boxers and drinking a
> lot of AquaFina.
> Just my .02
> Mark

Now you know why the body is designed to look like a toaster in the summer
and chest type freezer in the winter.
When I want AC I drive my powerful (455CI) and almost perfect 73 Buick
Electra.  Yes, I am a Vanagonholic but only on good weather days.
Eckie "In Africa hot Oklahoma." Prater