I’ve gotten lucky with it, I’m getting about 18mpg with the straight 6.
Although I need to recharge the AC… and the liquid is illegal to buy now. Apparently I have to get it converted by a professional or something? Still looking into that. Have till summer I suppose
Mine was built as a crawler so commuting 50 miles when gas was >$4/gal sucked. And off road or crawling it was <4mpg. But so much fun. I kept it always entirely covered in mud. If it rained and washed off that just meant there were new mud pits to go cover it again. Had water over the hood with no snorkel plenty. And omg I love that straight 6, honestlyy favorite engine. Easiest thing to work on. Now I do Subaru boxers where pretty much anything just means pull the engine. And transverse i4s that are just like… I wish this engine was pointed the right way.
You can usually get a pretty good deal on the r12 to r134 conversion is you ask around, lots of shadetree guys around that just need to he asked. But its also not impossible to get r12. But you do need to know who. If it isn’t working anyways then slowly doing the r134 conversion yourself can be pretty easy. Start now while its still cold and you could do it yourself by the time you need it.
Thanks for the advice. How about do I approach the conversion. I assume you have to suck all of the r12 out if there is still residual, and then get an adapter that fits the input? Then check the seal? I know the connections didn’t match the ones for the r134.
Just look up conversions in general, I imaging there’s either YouTube videos or someone has posted all the steps with every little tip and trick for exactly that year and model on some site.
Releasing any of that into the atmosphere is “illegal” but if it doesn’t work then it was already all gone… right? I think so. A manifold and vacuum is expensive. The compressor is the big thing. You can run r134 through the original one but it isn’t as efficient and will eventually kill it, eventually. So hoses and fittings which are cheap and easy to do. Then just use the super easy Schrader valve cans to fill it up. Compressors run ~$500 I think but without that it can be done for less than $200, like $100 if you look around.
I can ask a few people but I dont think I’ve heard a r134 conversion including the compressor go for over a band.
Yeah I’ll ask around. I’m in a fairly small town so someone around here likely has a way to get it done cheap. Probably the same guy who sells moonshine. You know you are in a small town when the liquor store, the bail bondsman, and the bar owner are all the same person. His brother is an officer, how much money they have made each other I’ll never know
Lol. Yeah. Moonshine? Sketchy but cheap vehicle repairs? I wouldn’t know anything about that. I do know something about no liquor store, no court, no bailbonds, no officers. The mountains are wild but free.
Oh, well that is more of a house. I miss my old XJ. Thing was a tank. I don’t miss getting 8mpg though.
I’ve gotten lucky with it, I’m getting about 18mpg with the straight 6.
Although I need to recharge the AC… and the liquid is illegal to buy now. Apparently I have to get it converted by a professional or something? Still looking into that. Have till summer I suppose
Mine was built as a crawler so commuting 50 miles when gas was >$4/gal sucked. And off road or crawling it was <4mpg. But so much fun. I kept it always entirely covered in mud. If it rained and washed off that just meant there were new mud pits to go cover it again. Had water over the hood with no snorkel plenty. And omg I love that straight 6, honestlyy favorite engine. Easiest thing to work on. Now I do Subaru boxers where pretty much anything just means pull the engine. And transverse i4s that are just like… I wish this engine was pointed the right way.
You can usually get a pretty good deal on the r12 to r134 conversion is you ask around, lots of shadetree guys around that just need to he asked. But its also not impossible to get r12. But you do need to know who. If it isn’t working anyways then slowly doing the r134 conversion yourself can be pretty easy. Start now while its still cold and you could do it yourself by the time you need it.
Thanks for the advice. How about do I approach the conversion. I assume you have to suck all of the r12 out if there is still residual, and then get an adapter that fits the input? Then check the seal? I know the connections didn’t match the ones for the r134.
Just look up conversions in general, I imaging there’s either YouTube videos or someone has posted all the steps with every little tip and trick for exactly that year and model on some site.
Releasing any of that into the atmosphere is “illegal” but if it doesn’t work then it was already all gone… right? I think so. A manifold and vacuum is expensive. The compressor is the big thing. You can run r134 through the original one but it isn’t as efficient and will eventually kill it, eventually. So hoses and fittings which are cheap and easy to do. Then just use the super easy Schrader valve cans to fill it up. Compressors run ~$500 I think but without that it can be done for less than $200, like $100 if you look around.
I can ask a few people but I dont think I’ve heard a r134 conversion including the compressor go for over a band.
Yeah I’ll ask around. I’m in a fairly small town so someone around here likely has a way to get it done cheap. Probably the same guy who sells moonshine. You know you are in a small town when the liquor store, the bail bondsman, and the bar owner are all the same person. His brother is an officer, how much money they have made each other I’ll never know
Lol. Yeah. Moonshine? Sketchy but cheap vehicle repairs? I wouldn’t know anything about that. I do know something about no liquor store, no court, no bailbonds, no officers. The mountains are wild but free.