Hi just wondering whether there is any one on hear yet who has encountered this problem - I'm nearly ready to put it back together!

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*Special Conditions:

Canopy size - Ample (minimum)
Diff size - H145 (smaller prefered)

How did it go?

The original oil in your compressor is not miscible with R134a; you probably have oil return problems in turn causing noise.

Change the oil for a Polyol Ester oil; by the way one change is not sufficient, I would recommend 3 changes to ensure you have sufficiently removed the mineral oil.

Again using a drop-in such as Isceon 49 avoids this, as well as removing the chance that such things as the shaft seal of the compressor may fail due to incompatibility with the new oil or refrigerant.

Good luck.

By the way we used to use FR12 which is a retrofit available here from BOC gases, so should be avaiable all over Aus.

ISCEON 49!

There are several different "retrofit" refrigerants to replace R12, in my opinion Isceon 49 has the closest operating characteristics to those of R12 and does not require any modification of the system other than a replacement filter drier (which you will be doing anyway).
By the way no oil change needed.

cheers

Try F12 which supposedly a direct replacement and should be available from BOC gases (it is in NZ)

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