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From : Annonymous

Q: right tools. i like the truckbut the mileage is killing me at $3.15 a gallon this week. no doubt. i had an 02 quad cab 5.9l and it drank fuel at 12 mpg! theres no reason for any vehicle to use that much gas. even a full size 5.9l ram gets better mileage. it was a great truck but i couldnt afford to drive it. i will try and get the guage on it again this weekend when i am off and see wht i can figure out.thanks again! be careful! if youre not 100% sure what youre doing then pay a shop to risk taking a face full of freon and metal shards. years from now you dont want to explain to people that youre blind because you tried to save a few bucks on air conditioning. youre wearing safety goggles and gloves right -rev . 222 335932 1181061699.849847.57060@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com yet another from the old nascar days passes on. .

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From : roy

on jun 5 1205 am rob e...@er.com wrote thanks alot for your extensive reply.the clutch does seem to fast cycleruns for maybe 5 secondsstops for 10 or 15 then same thing over. i wasnt aware that it should be 60psi on the low side when it is runningi was looking atthe package of the guage i bought which said 35-45 is goodi should have consulted a dakota book. when fully charged the low side tends to hover around 25 psi but its not as simple as just that. at idle the compressor usually runs full time. i had a can of refrigerant i was trying to put inbut when the compressor would cycle onthe guage went up to 70-80psi which was red on the guage and i was afraid i would blow the can upthus i figured it was full of refrigerant. stop!! it sounds like you have your gauge hooked up to the high side! the fittings are different so i dont know how it could happen. when the compressor kicks on the pressure on the low side should drop. the high side pressure will increase greatly. if you plug a can into the high side it will explode! i hate to pay someone $100 to diagnose it being low on r134a. for $100 a shop should be able to tell you why it is low which is more important. there are handheld devices that detect trace amounts of r134a. if the shop doesnt have one then find a shop that