AC Recharge 01’ Tundra

I’ve decided it’s time to recharge my 01’ 4x4 Limited Tundra’s AC as it blows relatively cool air, just not enough to actually make the car cold. Anyone know what sort of recharge kit or refrigerant to purchase????

I can’t seem to figure it out what to buy as there are so many options!

Anyone have any recommendations? Maybe a tutorial video as well.

Thanks

 

Cheap way: buy a couple of the small $5 Walmart cans of R134a refrigerant and a nozzle with a gauge and fill it till it's in the green.
Best way: take it to a shop and have them hook their fancy machine to it and pull a vacuum and find the leak. That system is sealed and shouldn't ever leak out. So you may have more problems down the line.

 

The other benefit of taking it to a shop is that the vacuum will boil the water out of the drier. I'm planning on this sometime soon. My A/C is still cold, but after 20 years, I'm sure there has to have been some moisture in the system.

And if there is a leak, they can use the machine to find it.

It will probably be cheaper than getting a set of gauges and a vacuum pump. Just make sure the shop has an actual machine and isn't going to charge you to hook up the Walmart cans.