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Thanks for the feedback Chuck and cbr046. I'm thinking (hoping!) my leak is Schrader valves. I pulled a vacuum (29") on the system and checked it after a couple of hours, no change. I left it overnight and only lost about 5" of Mercury so it is a pretty small leak. I put some dye in this morning and added 12 oz of refrigerant which was enough to give me enough low side pressure to engage the compressor clutch. I'm going to leave it at that and do some searching with a blacklight to see if I can find a leak. There's no sense dumping any more freon than necessary! If I can't get any info on how much freon it is supposed to have I'll just guess by monitoring Low and High pressures and evaporator output temp and call it good. Not sure of any other way to do it. Thanks again for the input. Mike

I've been following georgecederholm's post regarding his dash a/c unit failure and have gleaned a lot of good info from it. My problem is similar in that my dash a/c unit is just blowing warm air. Assuming(hoping) it was just low on charge because the compressor clutch was not activating, I put the gauges on it and I have zero pressure in the system! So now the fun part begins, finding the leak. Once that is done and repaired comes the evacuate and charge part. There in lies my major problem, I can't find a sticker anywhere that tells my how much r134a the system holds. there are a couple of labels on the compressor itself but nothing as to the charge. Up front I've crawled up inside the nose of this beast and do not see a label on the front end unit. Does anyone know if there is a standard location for that label or a charge amount for this system? Thanks in advance for any knowledge anyone can share. Mike 1996 Monaco Windsor C8.3 No slides, no Toad

Thanks Bill, I’ll take a look at the regulator. I’m in the process of reviewing the manual I downloaded to get a better understanding of this beast! I’ll update when I find out more. mike

I don’t have an auto start function, but that’s definitely a good thought. I’m pretty sure it’s a fuel related issue because of the way it’s acting. thanks,

New to me Windsor. Ran the genset for over an hour when testing and it ran about an hour on our first trip. Now it starts, runs 20-30 seconds and dies. It will restart but only fun a few seconds on subsequent starts. Really sounds like it’s running out of fuel. The tank is completely full. The only thing between the tank and the carb is a solenoid valve on the carb inlet. Is it possible there is a filter in that solenoid valve? Anyone run into an issue like this? Any ideas would be appreciated. thanks, Mike

Just read this thread since I’m having the same issue! ‘96 Windsor. My approach is going to be check the level every time I check oil and basically not worry about it. Mike