anyone out there familiar with a skye a/c recovery machine model EC14X? i have no clue as to hook it up, meaning to the tank itself, im not familiar with this machine.

ive googled the hell out of it and came up with nothing e-mailed a few companies with no luck tring to get a owners/setup manual. it looks like this

http://www.americasprideonline.com/acservice/Skye/EC14.shtml  

Looks like a run of the mill A/C machine....  The yellow lines go to the tank or vacuum pump.  It's hard to tell from the picture but it looks like a dual pump system, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tank line goes to one of the pumps instead of the gauge set.  I would look for a port on one of (or both) pumps that is perhaps missing a hose(probably yellow hose) that should connect to the tank.  I've never used one but that's my two cents.  

the reason that there are no instruction is to stop people who dont know what they are doing from using it...

there are two complete separtate systems there...  
one for r12 and the other for 134.

babcox.com has  a trade  magazine called underhood service.. there is a huge search back articals link once you find their magazine page..  use it  read the 20 or more articals on it..  just on recycling ac and recharging the systems...

.babcox.com/arsearch.asp  

wayne you ever done any a/c work?  i dunno maybe you used a snap-on machine that just serviced R-12 for 15 years then this machine gets thrown at you that services R12 and R134 completly different than the machine you used previously
not that you dont know what the hell your doing but youd like the basic run down before you screwed something up.yes i know theres 2 systems there.

FYI all machines come with setup/owners manuals i dont need smart remarks
im just familiar with an old robinaire machine  

this where i dont know whats going on, im familiar with a old robinaire machine or the old mac that just did one refridgerant. 2 lines going to the recovery tank....does this machine just use the yellow line fromt he tank instead of 1 red one 1 blue. this is all new to me  

I've never used a machine, but then again I've only started with a fresh drained A/C system.  I've always hooked the Red line to the high side, and the blue to the low (you probably know this, but covering it to be sure, also keep in mind I am not an automotive professional) and the yellow to "either" the vacuum pump or the tank depending on which I intended to use.  I have a set of hoses and gauges for both R-12 and R-134a, and I just use the ones applicable.

I've worked around some of the newer digital A/C machines that do the recovery and fills, but I never looked at how the tank hooks up or how many lines go to it.  I would think one of those pumps is an evacuation pump for creating a vacuum in the system and probably has the blue lines connected to it and the other is used for recovery and pulls from the high side (red lines) and fills the tank.  It is up to you to turn the appropriate valves on and off as well as pump.  Or so I think with out seeing the setup in person.....
(Common there has to be a real A/C man either here or on HotRod)  

i appreciate the reply silver  

i think this is what you need....


http://web.archive.org/web/20030309010221/skyeinternational.com/pdf/EC14.pdf

have a great day....


wayne  

THANK YOU

where the heck did you find this? i googled it-yahoo searched and even the dog one, i once found a link that said was to sky manuals but when i clicked on it it didnt work.

in any event thanks alot  

look carefully at the url of the link..... archive.org is the webs biggest saver of stuff...

the idea is to find a dead link.. then open archive .org  and paste it into the way back machine....

archive .org is even scanning old books so everybody can enjoy them...  many are locked away in special collections not accessable to anybody except researchers...

people are trying to stop and other evel things this by requiring the scrambled image of letters  to be read by a human eye to enter a site...