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Hoosierdaddy: I don't have experience with this particular connection. It looks to me as if the coupling right at the compressor is leaking. It also looks to me that it is a copper connection and that it likely is a brazed connection. If those things turn out to be true then it is potentially repairable, but it won't be easy. You would need to 1) recover any refrigerant, 2) purge the system with nitrogen, 3) while purging heat the joint and separate the parts to the point everything can be cleaned, 4)while purging rebraze the joint with silver solder, 5) ramp up the nitrogen pressure to 200psi and check for leaks, 6) this part I don't know how to do but you must replace the missing oil, 7) pull a deep vacuum on the system and then charge with refrigerant to achieve the optimal superheat.