I admit it

[Airbag]

Yeh I'm a cheap screw, and it bit me in the arss tonignt. I finally got my split Duo Therm AC installed and thought hey I'll get my own gauges and vac pump and I can at least leak check it tonight. So I go down to the local used tool dealer and I buy a Robinson 5 cfm pump and a set of guages. I hook them up and low and behold I only get 24" I must have a leak, many hours later of tightening fittings and using acetone on the fittings coming up with zilch I give up and decide to call it a night. As I was unhooking the gauges from the AC I notice stowage plugs on the manifold, then the light comes on and I hook them up and turn the pump on and guess what 24" Duuuuuuh.   

[JohnEd]

I don't get it? 

John 

[Nick Badame Refrig/ACC]

 

You sound like the "NEW GUY" here...

Nick-

[NewbeeMC9]

I did that on a brake master cylinder on a VW bug one time.  Could not get the rears to bleed.  Finally decided to take the master cylinder back because it had to be defective   When I took the line off there was a little clear plastic cap still in the hole.  Voilah

[cody]

It's not the end of life as we know it, or lack of, I even know some seasoned veterans that have done things like forgot to remove the orange cap from a sewer hose and then wondered why it wouldn't drain, so if things can happen to the best of us it can happen to any of us lol.

[Airbag]

I don't get it? 

John 

John I was trying to evacuate my system with a defective pump or gauges. It should pull 30" of vacuum. If I had been thinking I would have checked the pump and gauges before hooking them to my AC. The good news is my AC system is probably OK, I will find out when my AC repairman shows up today with the R22 and a good set of gauges.