Now that summer is here, I noticed my A/C doesn't blow cold. So I hooked it up to a gauge set, and sure enough, 0 PSI. I bought the car used in January, so I didn't know if it had been evaculated for some reason or if it had a leak. So I charged it up, and sure enough refrigerant starts shooting out from the side of the high-side fitting port.

Turns out the Hahn intake, which was on the car when I bought it, had actually rubbed a hole in the side of the soft aluminum A/C line right next to the high-side fitting. So not I either need to try and repair the line (not likely) or buy a new line from GM (expensive). I don't know if its the design of the intake that causes it to be too close to the line, or perhaps an incorrect installation (looks fine from what I saw though) but its definitely an issue nontheless.

So the question is, has anyone else had this happen, or almost happen??

 

bummer must have been rubbing forever

 

....u can weld that hole in the AC line lol. Its been done b4. U gotta know some1 who knows some1 who can do it though

 

yeah that piping is not cheap and almost impossible to repair... unless its a relativly snmall hole

 

I was going to say... The Hahn intake rubbed against the AC line. But I guess you already found out your problem. But that sucks! See what the dealer can do for you.

 

Dealer won't do anything, that I'm sure of. Except of course sell me the high side line for some ungodly amount of money...

This really sucks. I'll have to see if I can hit up a couple of my friends who are good welders, that would be a nice fix.

What did you do to get your intake to stop rubbing?? Right now I have a piece of foam in between the intake and the line, ghetto fix.

The hole in the line is basically a pin hole, very small, but bad enough to cause a refrigerant leak.

 

Same here. I bent the line back when I saw it was rubbing. No issues

 

The stainless worm clamp on my SRI was rubbing the same way and the aluminum was loosing that fight so I slit a piece of vacuum line and put it over the a/c line