where's the low-side fitting on TJ A/C system?

If you can't tell the high from the low side, maybe you shouldn't be f*cking with it. You could hurt yourself.

What test did you do to lead you to believe it is low on refrigerant? Overcharging won't be much help.

a zillion eh?

actually no.. what burn victim ?

I think a zillion means a lot. You know, like 7 or 8... or maybe 19. Maybe...

Scotty '99 TJ 4.0L '99 XJ 4.0L '03 BMW Z4

Thanks for all the help, guys !

-jeff

Safety! Safety! Safety! It must be practiced to a point of redundancy. A friend of mine owned a used car lot & dropped a car on himself while moving it around with a fork lift. He is no longer with us. Several other friends of mine have spent time in the hospital for various other accidents that could have been prevented. Everybody in this group probably has several stories they could tell & they are all trying to prevent you from being one of them........

Yeah I once did a dumbsh*t thing and added freon to an old Volvo without using guages. Managed to drive it about 15 miles on a hot Los Angeles area day before it made the biggest damn bang I've ever heard and started spraying stinky vapor out the front of the grille. Blew a hose to pieces right near the fitting near the radiator, scared the whee out of me.

The help is largely suggesting that if you don't have a good enough manual to give you the inlet location plus a bit of background in A/C, you may be about to blow your fool head off. Hooking the can of freon up to the pressure side of the compressor tends to confirm the diagnosis...and you are damn lucky already it didn't blow up on you.

Plus you have good odds of turning a minor job into a real expensive repair if your skills are such that you can't figure out which the high side of an A/C compressor is *without* any books.

I see that he didn't care for everybody's advice....................he's getting a lot of response on the "TJ" Mail Group.....

to give you the inlet location plus a bit of

OK, I do appreciate the help, even though it was not what I was expecting! I had no idea it was so potentially dangerous nor so apparantly f*ck-upable. It sure sounded easy on the kit from the auto parts store, in fact if it is as dangerous as you all say, then the companies are NUTS to sell those kits, with those instructions on them, to the general public! And, several of my mechanic friends said that the symptoms I had were probably from low coolant, is why I was willing to try it myself...

I will have to find the location of the low-side fitting elsewhere it appears. My confusion stems mainly from the lack of any fitting at all on what looks like the low side to me, and the fact that the fitting that fits all the kits I saw, is on what is apparantly the high side.

I'll pay one of my mechanic friends to do it and pick his brain so maybe I'll have a better clue next time.

Thanks, guys, I do appreciate the wake-up and I wasn't meaning to be a smart-ass!

-jeff