Anyway to tell how much nd11 oil left after Pulling condenser off all refrigerant blowed small line

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    Trunks9us New Member

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    Anyway how to tell how much nd11 oil after Pulling condenser off all refrigerant blowed out?

    I didn’t realize how much a head ache and expensive this was going to be to just clean my rads out or I would of never pulled the lines.

    I know I can get some hybrid no oil r134a but idk what the nd11 oil I have left. I didn’t drain the lines so it all blew out and I didn’t mean to do that just happened.


    This is pretty important for my I am on a major time crunch and trying to get this back together and fixed.
     
    #1 Trunks9us, Jun 27, 2022
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    Amount of oil and refrigerant is done by weight, not by pressure because it's a variable pressure system. So you need to get the last of everything out of the system and you could possible do this by can weight, but in a time crunch, probably best to take it to a shop that has an expensive machine that makes super accurate weight measurements. If you don't get the weights done correctly the system won't last very long.
     
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    So what you are saying is that even tho it blew all pressure all the ways down there’s a possibility I didn’t lose a lot of refrigerant or oil or both? I am just trying to understand what you meant when you say by weight not by pressures
     
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    If it blew then it's mostly gone... But the standard way they do it is by putting a vacume pump on it and emptying it out entirely. A mechanic that operates one of these expensive machines could tell you how much is likely still in there. I suspect it'd be mostly oil and almost all refrigerant is gone, but don't have enough experience to say more.
     
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    That’s ok for me to hav mostly oil which is what I’m really hoping for as I know I need to pull a vac it will have to wait and I will recharge it temporarily with a hybrid no oil is my only option I see atm. I will avoid cross contamination but I appreciate the help
     
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    I’m gonna hook up techstream and see what it shows at least should help me see some type of numbers I won’t blow it with nothing in it of course
     
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