No. Just saying what vendors list as the OEM CV. I had a 96 Z28 for a short time. It never cooled well. Not sure about how similar they are. You might be doing the best the system, will do. Way too many pages of posts to read them all. What I have read is your pressures did not seem that far off. T...

I can understand if you are just trying to make it better. But if the compressor was never changed. Why mess with what came from the factory? Just asking is all. Tim, are you saying that I should change out the original control valve with a new purple valve? Do you think that the control valve coul...

Oh. A "L" 9! I apologize for getting this wrong. My eyes just aren't as good for near vision as they used to be! On the other hand, my distant vision has been improving as I've been getting older :D ! AL9, you've got me sold on trying a new compressor control valve. I just looked up these ...

So when you put the replacement compressor on? How much oil did you add? Tim, the compressor and all the other ac parts are factory OEM. Other than add a little refrigerant earlier this summer, nothing on the ac system has ever been touched. I'm the original owner of the car. I did have trouble wit...

The inlet just after the OT is cool (slightly) to the touch and the outlet feels like ambient temperature.

The oil charge is the original GM installed back in 2001 (it is a 2002 model, though.) There are absolutely no signs of refrigerant/oil leakage anywhere.

I know it sounds like a "throw random parts at it" approach (i see it more as routine maintenance though), but now that the refrigerant has been recovered you could possibly replace both pressure controlling devices - the compressor's control valve and the orifice tube. Don't know how muc...

I know it sounds like a "throw random parts at it" approach (i see it more as routine maintenance though), but now that the refrigerant has been recovered you could possibly replace both pressure controlling devices - the compressor's control valve and the orifice tube. Don't know how muc...

So today my Mastercool 69110 recovery unit arrived. I pulled a vacuum on the tank and before I recovered the refrigerant, I decided to hook the gauges up one more time and take some readings. My car was completely cold when I started and the ambient temperature was 88 degrees. Cold engine Idle.........

Stuff can still lodge inside the fins and block airflow even though they appear clean. You want to see light shining through them. Ask yourself, how did the debris get all the way to the radiator? Through the condenser? Or around it somehow? And A19 has a valid point. I have seen condensers clogged...

Stuff can still lodge inside the fins and block airflow even though they appear clean. You want to see light shining through them. I didn't think about that. Other than the slight amount of debris in one of the pictures that I linked in my last post, the fins all looked sparkly clean. I can try usi...