I'm needing to completely remove the A/C system from my parts truck and while I can drive it, I really don't want to because frankly the brakes are flat dangerous. Does anyone have experience with mobile A/C recovery services? Like... do they exist? I looked on Craigslist and there's no one offering that service in my area.

 

I'm thinking even if you could find one it would still be cheaper to fix the brakes.

 

Ya know what, you're probably right.

It's just strange to me because people buy non-running project cars with A/C all the time.

 

Tbugden, I am a HVAC contractor..... That being said, I believe that 99% simply let the gas go into the air...... The other 1% recover...

 

I think I might just do that. There's not much refrigerant in it I think, the a/c works but the compressor only turns on for a few seconds, then off, then on... I don't think there's much pressure. If it was r12 that would be different.

 

r134a is still a greenhouse gas. It is the rough equivalent of 1 gram r134a equals 1410 grams of CO2 in the atmosphere. By comparison, that number for r12 was 8500.......

Please recover it if you can.

 

Yes but the BIG problem with R12 is that it eats the ozone layer, not simply that it is a greenhouse gas (that's a problem too!). There is some irony with me talking about a truck that gets 16mpg...haha.

I do ride my bike whenever I can so in general my ghg emissions is pretty low....look at me trying to rationalize this.

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Well, humans are, ostensibly, a 'rational animal', so, you are just doing what comes natural.