Joseph23

I don’t remember exactly but I think I put 3 oz of oil on the compressor put on the new high/low side line which came with a new orifice tube, I didn’t change the condenser though, however yesterday I bought some of that A/C pro with leak seal ****** from Walmart mostly because my truck holds 1.6 lbs but only got 15oz put in it when it was charged after the new compressor and stuff. I used about half the can and it was around 40lbs on that shitty little gauge they come with. It cooled nicely while idling. Other than the cost of constantly refilling the system if I have a leak I had a lung removed due to a cancer in that lung which is part of the reason I was wondering if the 134 is dangerous if it leaked into the cab and also to diagnose a leak if one is present

The truck is a 2003 Silverado 2500HD when I was a kid and my dad was driving it I had once asked him why his ac didn’t work and he said because it didn’t have any Freon in it, which leads to now I have the truck and I wanted to get the ac working I bought absolutely everything to redo the entire system. I pushed down on the service port valve just to check and it shot out some gas with reasonable pressure behind it, so apparently this truck held pressure for 20+ years. Once my boss checked charge and everything it was working and the clutch on the compressor burnt up. That’s probably why my dad took the belt off the compressor. But I put a new compressor on and a new high and low side line with the orifice tube. Vacuumed the system for something like 35-40 minutes and recharged it. I have a cheap Pittsburgh leak detector and sometimes it says it picking up refrigerant from the vents and sometimes it says it doesn’t, same with the smell sometimes when I get in the truck I kinda smell compressor oil and sometimes I don’t. So I don’t really know where to go from here

I had my ac fixed on my Silverado a little bit ago and it’s now suspected that there’s a leak at the evaporator core. My truck holds a little less than 2 pounds of refrigerant, if that 2 pounds was to dump into the cab would it be dangerous? And how long should I expect it to take for me to pull the dash out again and replace the evaporator