It's possible as we're talking Vanagon here and little quirks to show up on
these vans quite often.

I'll try adding freon and see what happens. My question now is: If the
compressor won't start how am I going to put the freon in. Doesn't it have to be
running (compressor) to take the freon?

In a message dated 8/10/2008 1:35:28 PM Central Daylight Time,
collum@verizon.net writes:

> Don't overlook the possibility that it's been slowly leaking for some
> time and it just got to the point where the switch tripped.  Just a thought.

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