i need help removing my ac. i know how to remove all the hard components, but im not sure how to discharge the stuff inside. yes i know its illegal, but is there a valve or something i can turn that prohibits the stuff from spraying everywhere, or do i just need to unbolt some bolts and let it come out. i removed ac one time from an integra and didnt know about that stuff and it scared the **** outta me when all this white smoke went spraying everywhere.

 

yea its illegal but on my car i mean my 'friends' car there is a little blue cap theres two actually and it looks like a valve stem on a tire just push that button down with a long screwdriver and keep your face away or you can crack a bolt loose some where in the system but you dont know where its gonna spray.

 

mm yeah i couldnt find any nipples to let out the freon. any other ideas?

 

They are near the fire wall on the a/c lines

 

The right way is to recover the refrigerant. This means gages, recovery machine and recovery tank. Other ways include, loosening the schrader valves found in the hi/lo side access ports or loosening one of the flare nuts like e jay one posted.

The slower you open the system the smaller your mess will be. Opening the lo side of the system (big line) will make less of a mess than opening the high side (smaller lines).

 

ok so i 'accidently' loosened a bolt and i heard it all comin out thanks for the posts!

 

you should have just took it to a garage and asked them to discharge your AC unit, thanks for ******* up the atmosphere just a little bit more

 

yeah...damn atmosphere destroying bastards

**whispers i acidentally did mine too when i went to remove it because i thought it was bad**

 

lol yeaaaaaaaaaah rite , dont we all here drive gas powered vehicles which put all sorts of **** into the air???

 

im not sure what year your car is, but for all the liberal enviromental *****, most cars use R-134 and not R-12, you could release all the 134 you want and it wont do **** to the ozone layer. you should be more concerned about all these cars running w/o cats....