Yup. Mineral oil, sitting in air, things can rust. You end up with leaking reed valves, therefore low high side pressure.
Peter -----Original Message----- >From: andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> >Sent: Sep 15, 2009 4:17 PM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: [MBZ] Compressor death from lack of use? > >When restoring my 1970 280SE coupe back in 1992, I had the old Frigiking AC >blower unit removed and installed (but never wired in) a period Behr AC >purely for looks. The AC system has been nonfuncitonal and devoid of freon >for the past 17 years. A month ago I decided to wire in the Behr blower >unit, and had my mechanic charge the system, convert to R134, and test it. >He says the compressor is "weak"; I only get tepid air at all settings. > >My question is whether merely sitting without running all these years would >ruin the compressor. Everything else works (I of course replaced the drier >bottle). > >Andrew >1970 280SE 3.5 >+ 3 W123 turbodiesels >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090915/dfef8f2a/attachment.html> >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
