I took it to the shop, put on a new compressor, vacuumed it down and recharged (with new orifice and dryer as well). Seems to work much better now. gets very cold even with the r134a. Thanks for the help gbic1. I appreciate your offer to help, but I just didn't have the gauges. The pressures were as followed when they put the freon in: low: 45 psi and high: 235 psi