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| Ianh Member Since: 17 Sep 2018 Location: Essex Posts: 2149  
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You have two valves on your vehicle air con, low pressure and high pressure. You are trying to connect to the high pressure valve, the smaller one, don’t touch this valve at all for safety reasons.
You need to identify and use the low pressure valve which is the larger one. All being said you really need to fully understand how aircon works before playing with it as too much gas will cause as many issues as too little and letting the gas’s into the air is illegal. I have used that very kit on other vehicles but not on my defender so cant advise on where the larger low pressure valve is, but following the pipes should show it up or a quick search on here. |
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21st Aug 2021 4:33pm |
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| Greyman110 Member Since: 29 Sep 2017 Location: London Posts: 327
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Thanks for that!
I’ll research this more thoroughly. |
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21st Aug 2021 4:36pm |
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| Race.it Member Since: 27 Aug 2019 Location: Algeciras Posts: 830  
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The connection points, one is by the compressor the other is on the opposite wing behind the water bottle for the wash wipe, kind of tucked under the wing. Searching for my first Defender...and started just as Covid hit, so talk about timing.
5 months after starting the search I found it, and here is the details |
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21st Aug 2021 5:46pm |
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| Greyman110 Member Since: 29 Sep 2017 Location: London Posts: 327
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Found it, thanks!
It’s the one with the blue cap on the drivers side (RHD) and the connector clicked straight on. Job took less than 10 minutes and now fully recharged. |
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21st Aug 2021 5:49pm |
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| Ianh Member Since: 17 Sep 2018 Location: Essex Posts: 2149
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Result, hope it’s all nice and cool for the heatwave we are having this summer
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21st Aug 2021 6:48pm |
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| Greyman110 Member Since: 29 Sep 2017 Location: London Posts: 327
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haha...I also bought some fancy new wipers so I'm all set!
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21st Aug 2021 7:58pm |
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| strang Member Since: 16 May 2012 Location: Happy Valley Posts: 1386 
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Jumping on this thread if I may. I took my Puma to Halfords for a re-gas but the chap who was going to do it said the reading on his device was showing that the pressure was too high, which would indicate a leak (he did not have facilities to do a leak test).
Does this sound correct? Surely if there is a leak then the pressure would be low - I know nothing about air con......  Euro-Leafing to infinity and beyond..... |
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22nd Aug 2021 3:53pm |
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