im wanting to get my AC fixed for the upcoming summer but i need to know what all i need to have replaced, need to have serviced ect.

when i bought my car the lines that run from the compressor the the silver canister were off and in the back of the car, i put them back on and have kept my Vbelt on the compressor since iv owned the car so what all do i need to have replaced, need to have done and how much will it cost me? im wanting to go back to an R12 drop in like autofrost or something along the lines of that.

 

You need to "have" (whatever that is... I can't imagine) a vacuum pump hooked up to it, and evacuated to within ½" of hard (deep space ... atmospheric pressure is about 30" of Hg, like the weatherman always gives the barometric pressure, "30.05 and falling" or whatever) vacuum for about a half hour, then disconnected and make sure that it doesn't change by more than ½" in the next hour. If it does, you need to "have" (there's THAT again... not sure what it means, but, yeah...) the leaks found and fixed, and the vacuum process repeated until it holds vacuum. Then you need to "have" it charged.

I have not the faintest vaguest foggiest hint of a glimpse of a whiff of a clue how much any of that costs, because I have never in all my days paid anybody to do any of it for me. I have my own vacuum pump, gauges, etc. But I'd bet it'll be based on an hourly rate and the hours it takes. Expect about 3 hours at about $80/hr, plus any parts & materials; or, roughly $250 - 300 to start, and then whatever is found bad on top of that. Expect to find rotted hoses, destroyed O-rings, and maybe a bad condenser or evaporator; don't just hallucinate that because you bolted up some stuff you found in the trunk, that it's necessarily now all good. EXPECT that there will be other problems because there probably will be.

 

I would prob. replace everything.... I know its a lot of cabbage but it should work like a dream.