>Date:    Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:28:11 -0600
>From:    Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
>Subject: Re: 134 conversion
>
>But Mike you started in California.
>You're supposed to start in El Paso and  go to Texarkana Texas. (729
>miles)(I think that is the longest possible trip in Texas).

You can go quite a bit farther without leaving Texas, and do it on
just one road - I-10.  There's around 880 miles of I-10 in Texas.
We live quite close to the 800 mile-marker, in Baytown, and there's a
lot more miles east before getting to the Sabine River.

Driving distance from the east side of Orange to a hair over the line
into NM on I-10 is 874.8 miles.  Crow-flies distance shows as 772
miles.

Crow-flies distance from Brownsville to Texline is 791 miles.
Might squeeze another ten miles out of that by going to the
south-most point and north-most point.  I'm having trouble getting
the web-based distance-engines to work to highway intersections (as
the crow flies).
Because of the routing, the driving distance is listed as over 1000
miles between these points (Yahoo! takes the trip through Ft Worth
?!?)

For some Vanagon content, I bought a cheap R12-to-R134 conversion kit
at Wal-Mart and it worked - nothing has blown up yet.  It's worked
for over two years now.  It came with two hose adapters and a small
container of snake oil that was supposed to convert the lubricant in
the R12 setup to something that would work with R134.  That's all.  I
added several cans of R134 and it cools.  I continue to add R134,
about one can per month, because the compressor housing leaks
visibly, but that's not necessarily the fault of the conversion
method.
--

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