Help wanted with broken ac

I bought one of those recharge kits and when I put the gauge on it read full so I kinda ruled that out, could it be just old age?
No. If you are not doing a lot of this buy a cheap set of gauges lo and hi side. This will help with diagnostics of the system. Always were safety glasses when working on ac systems. Hi pressure and freon are a bad mix. Let us know when you get them and me or someone on here can help.