The way you did it was perfectly fine for you scenario. That is where the kit from Autozone comes in pretty handy, you get a shot of oil, a little stop leak and the right amount of refrigerant to do the trick. I plan to use one of those kits on my dads truck as it works fine but is just a little leaky. The scenario I had on my 71 was a little different. I had flushed everything had to replace the lines (the big double one was broken). I had a nice clean system with new parts and the right oil (Ester), didn't want any stop leak in there to gum things up and wanted the correct amount of oil in the system. Just remember that if you do a total recharge with one of those all in one cans with the sealer, oil, and 134a all together you need to drain some oil out of the compressor or you will suffer poor performance due to to much oil in the system. They don't tell you that on the DVD.
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1971 Cheyenne Super K10 - tilt, cruise, air, am/fm, tow hooks, factory buckets!
1986 Jeep J10 pickup, - 5.3L Vortec with 4L60e and NP241.
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