Harald,
You're absolutely right.  I shifted decimal point one position too much.
The compressor needs 5.07 oz (it's weight, not volume.  I assume it's
approximately 5.07 fl.oz.)   But there was only 1/5 of oil from Bentley's
spec I can dump out from the compressor at that time.  My point was that
make sure you have enough refrigerant oil before you put the new compressor
in.  Must be the Texas heat.  But we only have 78 degrees right now.  Then
must be the age then...:>(
BTW, where is the accumulator?

Yi-Ruey Wei
87 Vanagon GL Syncro  w/leaking cylinder head
85 Jetta GLI  w/160,000 miles
Dallas, TX

harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET> on 08/06/98 11:47:40 AM

Please respond to harald_nancy <harald_nancy@EARTHLINK.NET>
To:   Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Subject:  Re: Refrigerate Oil

Yi_Ruey Wei wrote:
> IMHO, may be you don't have enough refrigerate oil in
> your compressor.  I remember it takes 54oz. of oil just for compressor
> only.  It's a lot! But when I dumped the old oil from my compressor 3
years ago,
> it was only 10fl.oz. left.
> Since I put 54 oz + more (to compensate the oil lost from condenser (need
40 >additional oz???)

Think that you got the quantities for refrigerant and oil mixed up.
According to Bentley,
Refrigerant R-12 (50.75 oz)

Refrigerant oil (which is separate item):
evaporator    2.02 oz
accumulator 0.3 oz
high pressure hose 0.3 oz
low pressure hose 0.3 oz
compressor only takes 5.07 oz

If you use Refrigerant R134a,
you are supposed to put
only about 9 oz of oil in the compressor

Harald
'90 westy

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