Dash / chassis air conditioner on FC

[Alan]

Thanks for your experiences and advice here! That really helps. I'm
going to try my luck with the existing hoses. I'll take it to a local
shop and see if they hold a vacuum and have them cleaned out. If that
looks good, i'll put on a new compressor and probably condensor, and
(hopefully) go happily down the road as cool as I want to be.

I did look into alternatives. There are aftermarket units that are
made for trucks and tractors that I could have used. They were
self-contained and the compressors would run off of 120v. After
talking to one of these manufactures (http://www.danhard.com) I decided
against it just because of capacity. The chassis one should put out
around 36,000btu. While even the largest 120v one would be 15,000 btu.

Thanks again,
Alan