whats this screw in the engine bay?

[EstoMax]

yea today i was unscrewing this screw to put a metal piece to help hold my intake in one place and when it got loose high pressure **** squirted out, i tightened it down right away though, so not much got out. I guess i inhaled some of it, so im wondering what the hell it was.

it seems like the ac refrigerant? is that stuff bad?

:help its located on the passenger side right next to the radiator in the front, in front of the place where the battery is kinda.

tiamax

[drifter_for_life06]

yea i think thats the A/C stuff. umm dont ingest any of it

[MainEvent212]

eh yeah, contact your local poison control center

[RedHatchback]

If you inhaled some of that,you gonna be feel'n it tomorrow.

[EstoMax]

really... well i feel normal now.. its been 4 hrs.. i mean my face wasnt directly in it it sprayed sidways and i was above it.. but yeah.. my friend looked at it and the ac stuff has hydrofloracarbons in it, according to the little sticker in the engine bay for the ac anyway..

max

[drifter_for_life06]

hmm you might start feelin it soon, i inhaled some once and woke up with the worst stomach ache and was throwin up

[Shift_Oversteer]

HAHA same thing happened to me!! ^^

[drifter_for_life06]

it sucks dont it

[EstoMax]

oh god damnit. tmrw i said i would help a friend of mine out in the morning to clear out his basement... this better not happen or im gonna miss out on about 50 bucks.. !!

o well ill report back tmrw.. wish me luck lol

max

[Dattebayo]

try burning some of that stuff and inhailing it, or rather NOT.If you are working around that stuff with a torch and it hits the freon (the gas in the ac system), it makes mustard gas. That'll make you puke your guts out and cry like you're cutting a giant onion.

[DAEDALUS]

Car's a '95...R-134a, not freon. It's not particularly bad, so a small exposure is probably nothing to worry about. Clean up whatever oil might have sprayed out and gotten on your paint.

Read sheet 1:http://www.state.in.us/idem/ct...s.pdf

[w1ngzer0]

Car's a '95...R-134a, not freon. It's not particularly bad, so a small exposure is probably nothing to worry about. Clean up whatever oil might have sprayed out and gotten on your paint.

Read sheet 1:http://www.state.in.us/idem/ct...s.pdf

thank god. I was going to wonder how he got some freon...

[[Zero-S]]

Its not hard, you can buy up to 1 lb of it w/o a license iirc.

[chandler]

freon is a brand name, its all refrigerant, adn it shouldnt have a screw in the system at all, it cant be freon unless some one put a hole in the system and then put a screw in it to plug the hole, and if it was refrigerant oil, it would burn you since when it hits the atmosphere the refrigerant evaporates immediately the oil then boils instantly, so I really hope it wasnt oil, n e ways that sucks man

[EstoMax]

alright, im OK, didnt have any headaches in the morning, felt fine, or at least accordingly to 6 hrs of sleep.

hmm.. if theres not supposed to be a screw.. it was i think just holding the hose tight cause when i loosened it something high pressure sprayed out.. ill go clean it up now too

tnx for the replies tho

Max

[DAEDALUS]

I believe freon is a trade name for R-12 and nothing else. I also beleive you can't buy any R-12 without an EPA sect. 609 certificate. The drier on my car has a screw on top of it.