AC Removal Help

I say Rusty: Crack a fitting and walk away for a bit. "Hell I didn't know it was leaking"

If you are gonna re-use the components, seal them up, maybe, double up some plastic grocery bags and tape them over the fittings.

Me? I'd even re-use the receiver dryer---heat it awhile at low setting in the oven, to evaporate the accumulated moisture out of the thing