First, unless you want to spend the rest of your life in a burn unit, DO NOT do the match-in-the-gas-tank trick!!!!!

Second, I did a search for "evaporator" on the Honda board and came up with a bimodal distribution of posts. About half the posts ran something like "So where IS the evaporator, anyway???", the othere half ran something like: "I just moved from Michigan to Florida, my Civic doesn't have AC, how do I install an evaporator???". Am I rushing to conclude that even with R134a, evaporator leaks are not inevitable (except, perhaps, in Volvos)?

Third, I haven't a clue as to why the AC is blowing warm art. I'm guessing that if it was at the dealer and hooked up to their computer that they had checked and determined that it was full of R134a. Doesn't the 850-70 heater core take a flow of coolant at all time, and isn't there a diverter flap in the system, the arm of which often breaks? Is the compressor still cycling, or is the compressor engaged when it's blowing warm air. I thought this Rube Goldberg HVAC system was all controlled by vacuum motors, which develop leaks. Probably the reason the Europeans don't complain about this is that they hardly notice it when the AC isn't working.

Hmmmm, wonder if THIS works?

-Punxsutawney Phil