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On a warm day, after a long and chilly winter, you turn on your car's air conditioner only to find a steady stream of warm air flowing out. After months of neglect, you hope that the air conditioner can be revived in time to deal with yet another hot summer. This is a common problem for car owners but it can be solved very easily.

There are two things you can do to keep your car's air conditioner in good working order. You can turn the air conditioner on for a few minutes every month to keep the compressor lubricated and you can recharge the air conditioner once warm air starts flowing out.

The easiest and safest way to have your air conditioner recharged is to have a mechanic do it. However, it is possible to do it yourself with a few special tools. You'll need a good set of goggles, a thick pair of gloves, a recharging kit and a can of refrigerant. Some recharging kits provide a pressurized can of refrigerant with a pressure gauge built into the cap; this type of kit is the easiest to work with. You should avoid spilling the refrigerant and getting it into your eyes or on your skin because it can cause instant frostbite.

With that in mind, the first step is determining what type of refrigerant you'll need. There are two choices: R12 and R134a. R12 refrigerant is used only in cars that were manufactured before 1994 and is no longer on the market. If you have an older car, you can use recycled R12 but it would be much easier to have your system professionally switched to R134a; do not mix the different types of refrigerant.

STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO RECHARGING YOUR CAR'S AIR CONDITIONER:

1- Safety first: put on your safety goggles and gloves.

2- Assemble the recharge kit as mentioned in the kit instructions; this may involve attaching a hose and a valve to the can of refrigerant or something similar.

3- Check the car manual to locate the low pressure port. The hose will usually only fit on that port; the high pressure port is a different size.

4- Wipe the outside of the low pressure port before you open it to prevent any kind of material from getting inside.

5- Attach the hose to the low pressure port.

6- Start the car and turn the air conditioner onto the highest setting. You should get an accurate pressure reading after a few minutes.

7- Pierce the can as instructed by the kit and add the refrigerant through the low pressure port. You may need to detach and reattach parts at this point; follow the kit instructions carefully.

8- Check the pressure gauge as you add the refrigerant. The kit instructions should tell you how much to add; if not, check the car manual.

9- Remove the hose as instructed by the kit instructions.

10- Add the cap to the lower pressure point.

It's a good idea to keep the pressure gauge kit for future recharging. For a detailed step by step guide with photos, please visit: http://autorepair.about.com/od/regularmaintenance/ss/AC-recharge.htm

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Robotic Submarines Removing Oil Leaking

Robotic submarines removed the cap that had been placed on top of the leak in early June to collect the oil and send it to surface ships for collection or burning. BP aims to put a new, tighter cap in place and said that, as of Saturday night, the work was going according to plan.

If tests show it can withstand the pressure of the oil and is working, the Gulf region could get its most significant piece of good news since the April 20 explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig, which killed 11 workers.

BP began trying Saturday afternoon to remove the bolted top flange that only partially completed the seal with the old cap. Video images showed robotic arms working to unscrew its bolts. Wells said that could last into Monday depending on whether the flange can be pulled off from above, as BP hopes.

If not, a specially designed tool will be used to pry apart the top and bottom flanges. Once the top flange is removed, BP has to bind together two sections of drill pipe that are in the gushing well head. Then a 12-foot-long piece of equipment called a flange transition spool will be lowered and bolted over it.

The second piece of pipe inside the well head came as something of a surprise, and raises the possibility that one of the sections of pipe became jammed in the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer, though which the well pipes run.

The failure of the blowout preventer, a massive piece of equipment designed to stop the unchecked flow of oil, is partly to blame for the size of the spill. Ultimately, BP wants to have four vessels collecting oil within two or three weeks of the new cap's installation. If the new cap doesn't work, BP is ready to place a backup similar the old one on top of the leak. The government estimates 1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons of oil a day are spewing from the well, and the previous cap collected about 1 million gallons of that. With the new cap and the new containment vessel, the system will be capable of capturing 2.5 million to 3.4 million gallons — essentially all the leaking oil, officials said. The plan, which was accelerated to take advantage of a window of good weather lasting seven to 10 days, didn't inspire confidence in the residents of the oil-slicked coast.

Robotic submarines working a mile underwater removed a leaking cap from the gushing Gulf oil well Saturday, starting a painful trade-off: Millions more gallons of crude will flow freely into the sea for several days until a new seal can be mounted to capture all of it. There's no guarantee for such a delicate operation almost a mile below the water's surface, officials said, and the permanent fix of plugging the well from the bottom remains slated for mid-August. How It Would Work The latest effort to cap and contain the Gulf oil spill is a multistep process.

Here's how it would work:

1. The existing containment cap will be removed -- perhaps in a matter of minutes.

2. Robot submarines will then remove a stub of pipe that's bolted to the top of the blowout preventer. That could be tricky, involving the removal of six large bolts. Once the stub is removed, that will expose a flat plate, or flange.

3. Two pipes that are sticking up inside the blowout preventer will be then strapped together.

4. BP will then install a cylindrical device over the protruding pipes that will be bolted down onto the flange.

5. BP will then install a manifold, or valve system, on top of that cylindrical device.

6. Once that valve system is in place, BP will need to connect four pipes or houses to oil processing ships at the surface. That should be enough to capture 60,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil per day, which should be enough to capture all the oil from the runaway well. Federal officials estimate that the well is spewing between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of oil per day.



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Where is the oil fill cap on new valve covers?

I am getting ready to buy valve covers on ebay for my 350 V8. I found a pair that is chrome and has the numbers "350" stamped on them. Now there is one hole in each cover for a breather but there is no hole oil change cap. Is there supposed to be a oil change cap? Do I have to buy one seperate? If there isn't supposed to be a cap, then do I pour the oil through the breather hole when I change the oil?

the hole on the passenger side is the breather hole .the onr on the driver side is for the oil cap. you might have to go to a parts house to get a cap that will fit.

BP places new cap over leaking oil well
BP successfully placed a new cap over the Gulf of Mexico oil leak on Monday, hoping the giant valve will seal the well or contain all the gushing crude, underwater video footage showed.

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