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Subject:Re: Refrigerate Oil
From:Yi-Ruey Wei
Date:Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:52:34 -0500

Ari,
The refrigerant oil will circulate with freon within your closed A/C
system.  When you take apart the A/C, each component is supposed to have
some oil residues.  That's why the evaporator will have 2.02 oz of the oil.

Yi-Ruey Wei
87 Vanagon GL Syncro  w/leaking cylinder head
85 Jetta GLI  w/160,000 miles
Dallas, TX  (Only 78 degrees right now)

Ari@OLTECO.com (Ari Ollikainen) on 08/06/98 11:48:54 AM
To:   Ray Wei/MCS/Price Waterhouse
cc:
Subject:  Re: Refrigerate Oil

>Don,
>Yeah, I knew it's a guessing work on refrigerate oil.  That's why I took
>the compressor out just to dump the old oil and put a correct amount of
new
>oil into the compressor.  The Bentley book breaks down the amount of oil
>for each A/C components (even includes the hoses but they missed the
>evaporator).

        Why would the evaporator need oil?

      OLTECO                         Ari Ollikainen
      P.O. BOX 3688                  Networking Technology and Architecture
      Stanford, CA                   Ari@OLTECO.com
      94309-3688                     415.517.3519

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