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Sams can be a nightmare if you have them rotate and balance regularly. If they cross-thread your studs, they can't fix it. You have to take it somewhere else to have it done, pay out of pocket and they'll reimburse you. But you have to handle it yourself because they aren't equipped to do a...

Fiddled with it and ended up at about 34 psi on the low side with the high side close to 225, temp 86 with 50ish% humidity. A/C works pretty well. Locating the reason the compressor won't func on it's own will have to wait until I have some more time.

Saw a post about jumpering the A/C CUTOFF RELAY, but I wasn't able to. The relay works. I applied 12V from pin 1 to 3, and it activated across 2 and 4, but no compressor function. Also, I see that there are 3 relays under the hood, CNDS #1, #2, #3 which suggests a condenser fan with different...

Ah, located the connector for the comp nearby the battery (hiding under a hose), so I jumped the compressor and started the uptake of R134. Low side pressure would drop below 30 so I would stop. When the high side started to advance above 150 it would slip back down, and the low drops too...

Thanks. That's not working here. The compressor is going to have to be cheated somehow to activate it. You know, two weeks ago I fixed my GM truck's A/C and you just have to defeat the pressure switch with a paper clip to get it to run. Is there not a way to do that on these trucks? The FSM...

New guy here, I can't post a new thread so here goes. I need a method to jump the compressor so the system will take a refrigerant charge. Just got my first 4runner, a '95 auto v6. One of the reasons I bought it was how cold the A/C 'was'. A day after buying it, the a/c cooling started crapping...