I hope I haven’t ruined my ac compressor?

I hope I haven’t ruined my ac compressor?

06-29-2008, 10:23 PM

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I hope I haven’t ruined my ac compressor?

I was adding 134a to my system and all the sudden it started popping. I have very little experience with these systems, and hope I haven’t killed my compressor? If not, how can I fix this? I released some of the refrigerant, thinking that would help. Then I restarted it, for just a second and retried it with the same popping result.

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