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Hi Fellow Mk1 owners, I am the original owner of a 85 MR2 with 245,000 miles. The air conditioning started leaking about 3 years ago such that I had to refill with R12 each summer. (BTW this is NOT illegal, if you are EPA certified and can get old cans of freon. It is illegal to make new freon, but not to use up the remaining stocks of it.) I believe the leak is coming from the Shrader valves. These aren