My $10 air conditioning fix for my beater whom formally only had a heater.

Some of you may remember a post from a while ago that I made about a Ford Ranger that I purchased from a collegaue for a measly $300.It didn't run, had blown out shocks, the rear brakes were locked on, but I loved it.So I bought it, and fixed all of the things it needed to have addressed.One item I had been dreading tackling was the Air Conditioning, I am one to not mind driving with windows down, but I will admit that at 70 miles per hour on the expressway this gets tiring after a very short period of time.I began reading up on how Air Conditioning systems work in cars, and learned that it wasn't as daunting as I thought it was to troubleshoot, I also learned that my local Autozone will rent pretty much all of the tools I need mend the system.So, I took the risk, spent $10 on a few cans of R-134a Freon, and rented the tools from my local AutoZone.To preface; this is a great resource on how air Con works in a car/truckFreon only works properly when kept in a vacuum, so the goal here was to use a manifold gauge set combined with a vacuum pump to remove all of the air and moisture from the Ranger's A/C system, this process took around 30 minutes.Then I simply added the correct amount of freon to the system, while the truck was running, on the low pressure side of the system, this took a total of maybe about 10 minutes to complete.As soon as I started filling the system with freon the a/c compressor clutch kicked into life, and the air vents in the truck started blowing nice, cool and dry air.Success! I now can drive my beater vehicle in comfort, and it only costed me a total of $10 in Freon, and some free tool rentals and a few hours of my day. via /r/cars http://ift.tt/2s0giQi