He made it sound like even if it was just spinning, it'd **** up. That's what I'm assuming anyway, but I've got the A/C button turned off, and don't even run the blower, so idk how it'd burn up if the clutch is just free wheeling and the entire system was off...
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i made it sound like it will mess up without running it because it will!
read my last post on this, moisture gets in the system and will find all that nice bare metal and screw things up, i see this all the time, and have worked on many of these in my days, also the clutch is irrelevant at the moment, all that does is let the pulley spin when the a/c is not in use, im talking about the $400+ compressor that is sitting with no lubrication with humidity filling up its internals, not getting used, that will fail when you put it back in service if you don't take care of the problem...
the a/c system relies on many pieces working, once you break the system open there is more to it than just changing a compressor, or adding Freon, and its not a cheap system to rebuild.
Edit: one more thing to consider, you have been already running the system low on Freon as it is, what happens to your motor when you run it low on oil, premature wear, so you take an old a/c system, run it low on lubricant and keep it running, now its lost all its Freon and is allowing external contaminants to enter the system through wherever the leak is...
so in a new system you can get buy for a little bit, on a 13 year old a/c system, its tolerance to abuse is not so high