Successfully completed the repair this morning. Fortunately the bearing held together so I was able to pull the pulley off easily with a three prong puller. The old bearing was completely dry and rusted inside.

Finally time for some good news. I was successful in extracting the center bold and installing the replacement pulley/clutch assembly. Got it all back together and the A/C worked again! But still had the warmer passenger side from driver's side output.

Took it in and had the system evacuated and recharged. Nearly 1 lb. shy on freon, but once fully charged, I'm getting 33* temps out of both sides now!!!

If I don't count the setback from the broken center bolt and delay, actual repair time was just over 5 hours in total. Do I want to do it again? No, but it's doable!

Glad you got your's working again too!

Glad you were able to get it fixed! You're right it's actually pretty quick. I spent about 3 hours total on it. Having a bearing press made the actual bearing swap a 5 minute job.

Did they add dye/tracer to the fill?? That way, *if* the system loses freon, they can find the offending component.

16 oz is a lot. Wonder if the vibrations at the bearing may have damaged a seal?

I highly doubt that it had ever been serviced during its 9 years of life. Yes put in dye just in case but I don't think I'll find anything leaking. Anyway, I'm glad it's blowing nearly ice cold.

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Pretty sure you have a leak. i have a 2007, bearing went a few months ago around 95k miles, coolant was full and ac was working fine up until the bear died (my died like yours, balls falling out as i took it apart). I replaced the full compressor in my case, but it shouldn't lose any coolant in the 10 year period, and you were down significantly.

I think you'll be back to this thread soon unfortunately.

To be down that much due to a leak should/would be a substantial leak and thus far, no signs of a leak that I can find. No dye leakage anywhere.

You have a UV light? Or you went back to the shop??

UV light and detector glasses

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Just an update in nearly 6 months since the repair, happy to report, no sign of leakage and still blows ice cold!