A couple of years ago I had an oil leak from the oil cooler. Not hard to
replace the o ring but while you are at it look at the water hoses
associated with it and change as needed.
Cheers
Jaime

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Hector Zapata
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:49 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: air conditioner
>
>
> The compressor is leaking...again. I'll remove the compressor
> tomorrow early
> in the morning and they'll fix it under warranty. And, while down there
> reassembling the cat converter, found me a nice oil leak coming
> from the oil
> cooler (and the hits keep on coming). I'm thinking the cooler's o-ring
> failed, causing the leak. Ain't Vanagons grand... Oh, well, gotta
> love 'em.
>
> H�ctor
> 1990 Carat 'Ursula'
>
> By three methods we may learn wisdom:
> First, by reflection, which is noblest;
> Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
> and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
> Confucius
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:35 PM, John Goubeaux <john@ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> > Good luck. I will be curious to know what the  "AC shop" tells
> you as well
> > as what they do to trbl shoot the system.
> >
> > Once you got the car to run cooler and the Hi speed fan to not
> run did the
> > AC compressor engage as it should ?
> >
> > I recently refit my AC to r134, replaced the compressor and
> tried to do all
> > the work myself and admittedly did not really know what I was doing but
> > learned as i went and got it to work however.
> > I did though, after several weeks, discover that a leak at one of the
> > service valves caused the pressure to drop and the clutch will
> not engage
> > now (normal with low pressure i guess)
> > I am going to replace the faulty valve and re-pressurize with
> refrigerant
> > this weekend and hopefully it will be back to normal.
> >
> > -john
> >
> >  Well, found the cat converter is bad, might be why the van had
> no power in
> >> high gear and was running the cooling fan so often, (sigh).
> Still taking
> >> it
> >> to the a/c shop later to have the pressures checked, still have some of
> >> the
> >> warranty left. Thanks again, guys.
> >>
> >> H�ctor
> >> 1990 Carat 'Ursula'
> >>
> >> By three methods we may learn wisdom:
> >> First, by reflection, which is noblest;
> >> Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
> >> and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
> >> Confucius
> >>
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Hector Zapata <hlzapata@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I have a question that hopefully somebody will be able to
> answer. My a/c
> >>> stops blowing cool air everytime the cooling fan kicks in
> high speed. I
> >>> checked the archives, looked at a couple of wiring diagrams, but can't
> >>> figure it out. I have this notion that somewhere I read that
> this happens
> >>> so
> >>> because the pressure of the a/c system gets too high and the pressure
> >>> switch
> >>> disengages the compressor's clutch, or something to that
> effect. It sucks
> >>> to
> >>> not have cool air blowing out the vents when I need it the most, when
> >>> it's
> >>> cooking around the high 90s outside. Any thoghts or ideas? TIA
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
>