O.K., sounds like you're on the right path .
I'm always amazed at how many "Mechanics" will rebuild a system leaving it full of gunk, SWARF and so on then blame the design or the rebuilt part when it naturally fails again soon .
Keep after the A/C ! my buddy has a freon leak detector tool and is going to poke around my gray market '84 wagon this week, I hope he finds it was I've dropped bundle$ of loot into it and still no cold air
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