No the aux. fan was running and seems to cycle OK. It looked like some freon just escaped through the O ring and then stopped leaking

I was thinking that some kind of blow-off valve released because it stopped venting s rapidly as it started Maybe the High dump you are referring to? I couldn't find a valve or anything.

Are you saying the high pressure dump could be bad?

I need some gauges and a vacuum pump if I'm gonna keep fooling with this stuff...

I'm sure that with the right tools I could figure it out.

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1980 300SD

yup.
and without them, it's very difficult to find this kind of problem.

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