The specification for your A/C system capacity according to Mitchell Online is 1.25 Lbs. Anyway you look at it, freon level is not the issue unless there is too much dye and oil in your system. Personally, I HATE that dye stuff. The system usually gets overcharged with oil when techs use that stuff and that can cause extremely high pressures and low performance. It is much better for the customer's A/C system as well as faster and more efficient to use an electronic leak detector to find system leaks. I don't understand why the tech felt that dye was necessary in the first place. If the system is not low on freon, the problem is clearly NOT being caused by a leak in the system...so WHAT was the dye for??? It is also not necessary to pump the freon out of the system to determine if the system is under-charged. That is what the manifold gauge set is for.
OK I'll get off my soap box to answer your question...
Yes, there are other possibilities. Without the high side pressure readings, it is hard to say for sure, but Toyotas are known for the expansion valves getting stuck and causing high low-side readings. If the low side is high and the high side is low, this is usually the case. (Freon flowing too fast through the evaporator)
P.S. A/C compressors don't "pull down" they "pump out". This may sound like a matter of semantics, but there truly IS a difference, and if you want to understand what is going on with your system, it has to be looked at this way
One more little tidbit of information:
Your A/C system is computer controlled and capable of outputting fault codes for certain types of system malfunctions. Did the tech even bother to check for fault codes? I'll bet not!
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