{"id":1796,"date":"2013-08-15T00:50:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2014-07-18T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T06:30:05","slug":"add-freon-to-montero-3-5l-v6-ac-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/add-freon-to-montero-3-5l-v6-ac-system.html","title":{"rendered":"Add Freon To Montero 3.5L V6 AC System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>It&#8217;s been hot in the last few days, my sister&#8217;s 99 Mitsubishi Montero 3.5L V6 AC system doesn&#8217;t blow cold any more. The car need some freon and hope it doesn&#8217;t leak too much anywhere else. We did 1 &#8211; 12oz can in about 10 minutes. Locating the low side port is a little difficult because it&#8217;s placed below the air cleaner housing. For adding freon to AC system DIY, always use LOW SIDE PORT. <a title=\"Gauge Reading Explained\" href=\"\/\/www.denlorstools.com\/autoblog\/2009\/04\/adding-freon-to-car-ac-gauge-readings-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the pressure before charging<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<em>Unscrew the pin all the way out before screwing the new Freon can in***<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<em>When Freon Can is screwed in tight, screw in the pin all the way to punch a hole in the can, then unscrew the pin all the way out for freon to be sucked in by the AC system running.***<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<em>Turn on the engine, AC system to max, the fan doesn&#8217;t have to be high, low speed is efficient, the system will suck in the new freon from the can. One 12 oz can should last the whole year.***<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"3.5L V6 Engine\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/sm_monteroac75.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[mac]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"Montero 3.5L V6\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/tn_monteroac75.JPG\" alt=\"3.5L V6\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a class=\"preview\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/sm_monteroac74.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[mac] title=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"low side port\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/tn_monteroac74.JPG\" alt=\"low side port\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"preview\" title=\"AC charging hose\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/sm_monteroac58.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[mac]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"AC charging hose\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/tn_monteroac58.JPG\" alt=\"3.5L V6\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a class=\"preview\" href=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/sm_monteroac60.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[mac] title=\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline;\" title=\"freon can and connector pin\" src=\"\/media\/audis\/montero_ac\/tn_monteroac60.JPG\" alt=\"low side port\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FACFeyyRtCg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been hot in the last few days, my sister&#8217;s 99 Mitsubishi Montero 3.5L V6 AC system doesn&#8217;t blow cold any more. The car need some freon and hope it doesn&#8217;t leak too much anywhere else. We did 1 &#8211; 12oz can in about 10 minutes. Locating the low side port is a little difficult <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/add-freon-to-montero-3-5l-v6-ac-system.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[261,228,260,259,262],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-cars","tag-3-5l-v6","tag-ac-charging","tag-add-freon","tag-mitsubishi-montero","tag-r134a"],"views":1906,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}