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Yarddog, did you do the work yourself? I have an '88 Mitsubishi pickup that has a very slow leak in the system but the old truck isn't worth spending a lot of money on. A local shade tree mechanic told me he had used the Walmart kit to convert several systems and he didn't do anything except vent the old R-12 from the system and then change over the fittings and install the R-134 and new lubricant.

The instructions on the kit say to completely evacuate the old system, but that would require a vacuum pump which I don't want to buy just for one job. I know it isn't legal to vent the R-12 into the atmosphere, but I think it's done quite a bit anyway.

A local shade tree mechanic told me he had used the Walmart kit to convert several systems and he didn't do anything except vent the old R-12 from the system and then change over the fittings and install the R-134 and new lubricant.

Those of us with redneck friends have been converting like this for years. Southern rednecks have more yankee ingenuity than most folks.

I can't remember what I did with the old refrigerant. All I did was unscrew the old fittings and put in the new ones. I then refilled using the lubricant and new refrigerant. Has worked fine so far.

I am a little nervous after reading an earlier post regarding the new stuff attacking the hoses.