14 Oct 11 07:55, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    RW>> If they kept the lines intact, there was no reason to evacuate the   
    RW>> system.   
      
    MH> The mechanic told me they evacuated the system and recharged it with   
    MH> dye after installing the new motor.  He had removed the compressor on   
    MH> the engine swap, so it must have opened up the line.   
      
   Yeup.   
      
    MH> I had told him my A/C had a slow leak before they did all that work.   
      
   Which is why he did what he did, looking for the leak before delivering   
   the vehicle back to you.   
      
    RW>> Fix it?   
      
    MH> Not yet.  I have been so busy in the evenings, I have not had a   
    MH> chance to do more looking.  Maybe this weekend at night I will use   
    MH> the UV/Black light and trace the entire thing to see if I can find   
    MH> anything else.   
      
   Keep us posted.   
      
    MH> I feel like my part time job is a mechanic lately.  My daughter's car   
    MH> battery went dead and I had to charge it up (only 2 1/2 years old   
    MH> battery). So far it has been fine since the re-charge.  Might need to   
    MH> be replaced.   
      
   You'll find out when the weather gets cold...   
      
    MH> Then my wife's Durango was making this very odd noise last night,   
    MH> especially when turning.  I found the problem to be the power   
    MH> steering fluid was low. Added more, and it seems to be fine now.  I   
    MH> had replaced the "high pressure power steering fluid sensor" about a   
    MH> year ago and forgot to add more fluid (didn't have any at the time   
    MH> and forgot to get more).  It had a CEL code from that bad sensor   
    MH> which would have caused the truck to fail emissions.   
      
   That's interesting. Why would that code fail the system? It has nothing to   
   do with emissions.   
      
    MH> All in a week's work.. :)   
      
   Been there, done that!   
      
      
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