Automotive A/C question

2001 Ford F-150 4.2L engine (6 banger gas saver) anyway when i bought it last year the ac worked fine. this summer? hellnaw. houston with no ac is like roasting your balls with a bic lighter. anyway i went to add freon and the system will not take anymore. the compressor has a 2 second cycle. on for 2 off for 2. you get the idea. anyway my question is this: would a clogged orifice tube cause this? when i was trying to add the can of freon the gauge would get close to the red then the compressor would kick off and pressure would drop to the lower green arc. i'm a little baffled and don't have very much ac experience. any pointers are greatly appreciated. thanks!

Did you check the pitot tube?

lmao and the static port!

plthijinx;661729 wrote:

Houston with no ac is like roasting your balls with a bic lighter.

Just tried to picture this in my mind. :3eye:

just changed the orifice tube. problem not solved. next step....whoring myself so i can afford a new compressor. :mad2:

maybe you can charge people for sticking their thingy in your orifice tube?

plthijinx;663360 wrote:

just changed the orifice tube. problem not solved. next step....whoring myself so i can afford a new compressor. :mad2:

Would it be easier to just move to a cooler climate?

jinx;663670 wrote:

Would it be easier to just move to a cooler climate?

in fact i just maybe moving to st. louis in a few months.

anywhoo i replaced the accumulator and compressor today. what a bitch that was. not so much the compressor but getting the freakin' accumulator free from the firewall was a total bitch. see it has a spring lock in it and you need a special tool to free it. even with the tool it was hard to break free. anyway, friday night is the first chance a friend has to stop by work and pull a vacuum on the system and charge it with r-134. BUT here's the catch. my friend at work (where i changed the system out so i would have access to the unorganized shop. hell in some cases it took me longer to find the damn wrench or socket i needed than it did to actually use it) he was laying across the engine and inadvertently fucked something up on top of my water pump. hell i just took some of that apart last week to replace a bad cam position sensor. i miss my chevy.