8v-of-fury
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:sunny: What's up EVERYONE!? How are you enjoying this beautiful day wherever you are?
The air still works on this old girl because it is my grandmothers car (which she is driving less and less and I am driving more and more due to age of both her and the car LOL) and she always made sure the garage kept the air-con working as it is essential for a summer spent near the rain-forest that is Toronto in the summer (anywhere near the great lakes really.. hah). However the air doesn't seem to be as cold as it could be, yet judging by other conversations the compressor seems to be cycling an appropriate amount of time. So I feel as though it just may be down on refrigerant. Now, I have no idea what refrigerant is in there but I want to assume it is the older stuff because the car was always at an old family friends shop. I doubt they would have retro'd new refrigerant and I don't recall that ever happening. Do I continue to use the old stuff or is it in my best interest to change it out for the newer refrigerant? My brother also works at a shop so it shouldn't be too big of a deal.
However what I have noticed is that when I have the air on the car likes to stall out sometimes when I am stopped and in drive. If I pull out to neutral, it does not seem to want to. Which leads me to believe I have my idle set too low, but then if I turn it up any the rear end SLAMS in to Drive or Reverse when coming out of park or going between gears. Now, could that just be exacerbated because of bad bushings out back? Sounding like the rear end is slamming when really it is just being normal?
Also I have noticed another issue it seems where when the brakes are pushed there is a more noticeable stumble in the idle... ? Every 7th cylinder firing is experiencing the miss it feels like.. seems like only when the brakes are applied. I am 4000kms from the car right now so I can not provide any more real information, but I will be driving it again in 2 weeks when I fly back home.
ps. I was thinking of getting a Holley on there, for ease of EVERYTHING related to Air/Fuel. Thoughts.?
The air still works on this old girl because it is my grandmothers car (which she is driving less and less and I am driving more and more due to age of both her and the car LOL) and she always made sure the garage kept the air-con working as it is essential for a summer spent near the rain-forest that is Toronto in the summer (anywhere near the great lakes really.. hah). However the air doesn't seem to be as cold as it could be, yet judging by other conversations the compressor seems to be cycling an appropriate amount of time. So I feel as though it just may be down on refrigerant. Now, I have no idea what refrigerant is in there but I want to assume it is the older stuff because the car was always at an old family friends shop. I doubt they would have retro'd new refrigerant and I don't recall that ever happening. Do I continue to use the old stuff or is it in my best interest to change it out for the newer refrigerant? My brother also works at a shop so it shouldn't be too big of a deal.
However what I have noticed is that when I have the air on the car likes to stall out sometimes when I am stopped and in drive. If I pull out to neutral, it does not seem to want to. Which leads me to believe I have my idle set too low, but then if I turn it up any the rear end SLAMS in to Drive or Reverse when coming out of park or going between gears. Now, could that just be exacerbated because of bad bushings out back? Sounding like the rear end is slamming when really it is just being normal?
Also I have noticed another issue it seems where when the brakes are pushed there is a more noticeable stumble in the idle... ? Every 7th cylinder firing is experiencing the miss it feels like.. seems like only when the brakes are applied. I am 4000kms from the car right now so I can not provide any more real information, but I will be driving it again in 2 weeks when I fly back home.
ps. I was thinking of getting a Holley on there, for ease of EVERYTHING related to Air/Fuel. Thoughts.?