Hindsight is 20/20 isn't it. If I was smart, I would have taken it out of
the truck when I got home and put it in the garage where it would have
blown up form the heat in there and probably dented the Bugeye!
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2
02 FLSTS
00 F-150
Allen Hefner
> Spend a hundred bucks on a plastic truck box for the bed. You can keep
> the
> interior a lot nicer and avoid these kind of problems. Tools in the
> box...beer in the cab...
>
> Allen Hefner
> Norristown PA
>
>
>
> On 6/17/06, rrengineer@dslextreme.com <rrengineer@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have some wise words for the list. When the temperature is over 100 F
>> ambient, don't leave a can of R-134a in your vehicle. My 2000 F-150 was
>> parked in my driveway here in San Bernardino, California when the temps
>> soared to 3 digits. I had a few days earlier tried to refill the AC
>> system with the can of R-134a. When I connected the fitting with a
>> pressure gauge to the low pressure side of the AC system, it read over
>> 169
>> psi. The most it is supposed to be is 45 psi or so. The compressor was
>> cycling on and off every few seconds also. My AC guru friend told me
>> that
>> this indicated that the compressor had gone bad and needed to be
>> replaced.
>> Being a little disappointed, I just disconnected the fitting/gauge from
>> the freon as I had not yet pierced the seal on it and put the can in the
>> center arm rest drink holder and forgot about it. My mind was on the
>> cost
>> of a new compressor. Yesterday the temperature got way up there and I
>> found out you cannot store a can of freon in a parked car in these
>> temperatures with the windows up. The can exploded from the BOTTOM of
>> the
>> can (weakest place?) and must of shot up like a rocket leaving an oily
>> mess all over the interior of the truck in it's wake. Of course I have
>> cloth velour type seats and headliner. Oh yes, it got all over the
>> headliner too. So remember my wise words next time you are too lazy to
>> take a can of something under pressure out of your car if it sits
>> outside.
>> :^(
>> Mike MacLean
>> 60 Sprite
>> 56 BN2
>> 02 FLSTS
>> 00 F-150 with a few days of cleaning ahead. oh boy!
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