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So luckily they had already taken the compressor out for me, chopped it here, unscrewed it there on the flare fitting, because you don't really want to do it on the rotolock fitting unless you've got a new seal for it, flipped the oil upside down, threw it into the container down here so I know how much was in it, which, you see that mineral oil doesn't look all that tempting there. This thing's had several leaks over the years, so as you can see right here, it was recharged several times, so they finally got the authorization to replace the evaporator, and that's what was done here just a little bit ago. As you can see, some of the equipment's a little bit tired, and some of it's still running surprisingly. So what we've got going on right now, what I did when I first got here was just went ahead and cranked my valve in all the way. That way I was open to the compressor, went ahead and filled up my pan here in my little dedicated bucket that I use for oil, whether recovering, whatever, measured it up to about the same area the other one was, pumped it into the system with that suction valve, like I said, cranked all the way in. That way it would shove right into the compressor. Once that was done, went ahead and backed it out and just cracked it, so most of it was pulling on the system, put on the vacuum hoses there, and now we're pulling the vacuum on it, which right now we're kind of twiddled in here. Come on, give me some light. So right now we're kind of twiddled in here because you've got so much refrigerant that's going to be boiling off in the receiver right there and in the compressor. I mean, obviously the oil is going to have some refrigerant stuck in it, so there's going to be some residual oil in that receiver. I just guarantee generally one change nowadays is enough to make the system run. This system here has a low pressure cutout, which I believe it has a thermostat on it. So we got here. Yeah, it looks like that's just for pump down only, which means thermostat should be doing a job. Do not believe this had a defrost clock on it, which it is what it is. We're just going to use what they had so if it worked before it should work again. This is going to be your start components here. Yep, all of them still look a little tired. But otherwise, I'm not really seeing any defrost clocks at all. I asked about that before I got here and he said it was off the side. But I'm not seeing any. Actually, none of them have defrost clocks unless it was upstairs. So we kind of bogged out around 2000 there. Let's go ahead and change this oil. It's been needing changed for a little while now. It's pretty easy with this pump. It's one handed. Here we go right into the pail. And it don't take a whole lot of oil, which is why you can change this oil pretty quick and fairly inexpensively because it doesn't hold a lot of oil. So it works out around the well. All right, put us right at the top there looking good. We're back together here and see if we can get a little bit better. We are holding right in there at 2030. So we haven't reused a whole lot. Let's go ahead and see if it does any better now with some better oil on it. Because that definitely should make a difference. We'll open that gas valve back up and see what we get now. So I'll go ahead and let that speed up there. It's kind of slow and startup. Trying to save battery power as it goes. Batteries weren't very happy with the cold weather. So they've got a new evaporator in here. I do not see anything in here for Gefrost clock. They reuse the existing line set and just tie it on to it. So there's thermostat. Looks like it's set to about 32, 34, which is pushing it. I'm assuming they're hoping they're going to get off cycle to Gefrost. So if it worked before, hopefully it works again. Guess we'll let that deal with the powers of B that did the quote. See if we can get in there and get to that TXV. All right, this TXV, I'm reaching around the back side. If you can move it like that, it's not tight enough. So we need to take that apart and tighten that up. That was snips or something. That's enough to cut your finger wide open right here. That's sure. You have to be careful not doing stuff like that. Geniuses are was the helper that did it. Because I know the guy normally installs it does really good work. So unfortunately, you got to double check their work. That's why we usually have the service guy a lot of times follow it up. Because we're going to have fresh eyes and we're going to look at things like this and get it done. So that hopefully we don't have problems with super heat stuff like that after the fact. Because you figure once they put this money into the coil, they're going to expect the compressor to continue running though it is old. And if we're flooding back because it doesn't think it's cold enough, that's something that could happen. All right, I see why it's loose. You got it on that. You can't do that. That needs pulled back into the unit a little bit further. So that it's actually flat. Another deal will get fixed. We ended up doing is moving back here. Now you've got a good contact with that bulb and it's not moving. No matter how hard I push, it's not moving. So now we'll go ahead and reorganize this lead going back to the head. We can reinstall it and then you don't have to worry about it getting nailed by somebody in the cooler with, you know, people are throwing things up here. And we'll smash some of those finger cutters back down that somebody freaking ripped off. Just fold that over. There's no reason for that. That right there is now a razor blade to cut some nice fingers off. You're going to do it. Use a pair of snips and brown the edges. That's just going to cause people to get more cuts like that right there and there. All right. Well, we ended up doing putting about a pound point three in there charged just a pound. I mean, we ain't talking a bunch here. It was enough to get it out of a vacuum because, you know, as you've seen, I was pulling off the suction only. There's no solenoid valve on this. We basically fed it through the suction, which is going to go up to the evaporator and come back. It's not going to just set in here in liquid form in the compressor. We just got enough in there that now we can hook onto our high side. And I was hoping that, you know, by keeping things sealed up, we'd have less leak points. You've got issues there with these valves possibly leaking. You've got problems with that one there leaking. All these things I think are contributing to a slow evacuation. Our sight glass back there does show purple. So it doesn't hear that, you know, it even thinks that it's dry. Other than that, I mean, it's had a low pressure switch to shut it off when it got too low. But that's what we're at right now. So we're going to go ahead and get our high side hooked on there. We'll finish charging the rest of it in liquid. As you see, we're at 75 psi there. So it did positively pressurize that side. Hoses moved a little bit. So we've got a little bit here. So we're going to go ahead and kick this thing on and we'll start charging it up. Actually, let's go ahead and start dumping some into the liquid side now. Finish charging it in. Let's go ahead and get about two and a half pounds, three pounds in here. And then we'll go ahead and kick it on after that. Disconnect right up here. I put our gauge on here. I wanted to see how good our oil is. As you can see, we're at 54 microns. So our oil should be good for one more. Okay, we'll go ahead and stop that there. Yeah, it does appear that we do not have a solenoid. I didn't see any wires running. Liquid cyclase over here. Let's start adding a little bit more to it here slowly. Now, it's a pretty hungry little hippo. A decent size little receiver for all the bigger this system is. We are finally at seven pounds times 15 percent comes in about a pound. So we're going to go ahead and add about another pound here. And that should give us plenty. That way we know we've got it full for all conditions. If we could get the core tool removed there. And we're just about there. That pressure don't look too out of line since we could add liquid. Then we can start checking our super heat. Well, as I figured the gauges aren't reaching up here. So I did get me some test approved now. So I'm able to do my testing with my phone remotely right at the unit, which makes it nice. There's a decent spot to clamp there. We're below the last of the manifold lines coming into it. So it should all be close to the mix about that point. Normally you want to be somewhere along by this the pole. Which in this case here, I did get that all cleaned up. And now let's protect it away from getting hit. No capillary tube from the pole hanging or anything like that. We do got her set right around 30 34, which we're going to raise that up some here. Definitely when you're trying to go naturally frost. I've got some screenshots and super heat. It started dropping down to about two degree area. So he started to crank it in a little bit. And last I checked was about six and a half. So we're going to double check it here and see where we're at. Just got her to 8.5. So we're going to go ahead and get this thing put back together. And it seems to be holding there. Definitely don't want to leave anything behind. As always guys, you can get all your test-o tools. Any kind of tools you're looking for, tree tech tools. Save 80% off most everything with Provo Survival to check out. There's links down in the bottom below on some of the most common tools that I use. So you can always check those out. Okay, it looks to me that we're right down at 35 degrees. Which is about where that was partially set at. Let's go ahead and click this thing and see where we're at. Let's take her up to about 36 area and we'll see how that does. See if she's shut down. It's kind of hard to tell. I hate to wrap it, cycle it because there's no contact or downer on that thing. It literally is powering directly to it. So let's go ahead and get our stuff cleaned up. Let's go downstairs. I have been liking this bag so far. It's not too overly heavy. MB5B. I showed it last video or two. I keep my probes here on the side which is kind of sweet. I also got my pressure one in here too. And then my door jam. And then my gas pressure test one is down in here too. My dual monometer, the 510i. It does a really good job. I got my basic hose there. Then I keep my meter on the other pocket. I haven't overstuffed it. Jumpers and stuff over here on this side. Got my lock out there. These are switchable. You can put these pockets inside these pockets. Same thing with this one over here. You can take them out and change those. This here pops out. This whole back plate pops out. So it's pretty slick. Got a big old monster pocket here on the front. Now there's zipper dipper there. Another zipper hopper hopper there on there. Lots of room for everything. And then on the back here you can unhook and remove these straps. And then you've got a spot back here for your iPad or whatever. And then another pocket up here which is where I keep my markers and stuff at which is out of way here so we don't forget it. All right it still hasn't shut off yet. I'm running 202 on head. It's dropped quite a bit. Check our cyclists. See if it's still full. Cyclists still full. I'm gonna go ahead and get maybe turn that up a touch because we were 35 degrees in there. If you're not going to have a defrost clock on it you really need to not run a crazy stupid low. Okay we've got everything tightened up. We're gonna go ahead and spread it for leaks just in case. Let's go up the stairs and see if we can turn it up a little bit. It's I think it's getting probably too cold in there. Well I just turned it up some almost about 38 and it's still not shutting off. This is why you replace everything and not just some of it. I'm gonna turn up high enough that it should definitely shut off because at this point all I know it may not even shut off. Who knows. All right I had to turn it all the way up to almost 42 area. That thing to come on or shut off. Well you've got a knob here on the side which says number seven and it goes up to number 11. Of course it goes down to number one. Well they didn't put anything inside here so I'm assuming one means tighter tolerance. This is one of the ones you know basically you got to further spread between it to give you that natural defrost that might be maybe what they're doing. But sucks is you don't know when it's going to come back on otherwise. So yeah 30. There's a 10 degree difference there. Take her down tighter say to number three. I'll get here and click on okay it's a little tighter. Yeah I guess we'll just set it on seven like they had it. We'll set it around 40. See what they get. I mean my feeling is it should replace the dad along with a lot of the other stuff. I can't be held responsible how things work when I didn't ever look at this stuff. This is one of the troubles you run into sometimes and once you touch it it's all on you. That's what's kind of troublesome. I'll tell you what I'm going to go ahead and set her about 38. Let's see where it's at. It's too cold. I mean you've got kigs in here. Everything in here is alcohol except for the pop. The pop's going to break probably right around 31. The alcohol is going to be able to go a little bit colder but you've got your kigs in here so you want them cold so you've got to mix up both. I guess you know they should know they're on cooler. So that temperature gauge work before it should work again. I'm going to leave it at that noted on my paperwork. I'm just here to start up and as far as my part's done. Superheat is set correctly. The system shuts off. What you got to go down to make sure. And that wraps my stuff up. Let's go downstairs. All right it is. Condenser fans not running. I don't think the compressor's running. It's warm on top which that means it's been off for a little bit. Okay now let's get things cleaned up and we'll see if it comes back on before I leave. The low pressure switch it's set at cut in about 32. So they could be using that as part of their defrost system. You can do that too so that it only cuts in once it gets above like say 38. But you better have her set up perfect and that's not what I was asked to do. And I'm not going in that deep when you're told you have to get this done quicker than what they originally quoted. I feel a vibration but I think it's these units over here. It came back on. We got everything cleaned up. All the caps are on. Everything's good to go there. Don't think we're forgetting anything. Got our oil picked up. One box. Take that with us. But short of that I think we're good to go. I'm gonna go out and double check that cooler. See what the temperature's at. Spray it down. That's not mine. I didn't put that in at 38 when I got here. After that spray down let's see. I'm not going to scan the leak detector just because it's so much crap down here in the air as it is. I'm good. Assuming that's accurate. We're at 30-ish. It's not right in there about 38-39. I think it had a little lower than that earlier. We'll set it at 35 and see what happens. That way you can say that I definitely should have been able to stay under 40 no matter what. I'm thinking adjust it from that point. So let's wrap it up guys. If you guys enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it make sure you subscribe hit the thumbs button. Check out some of those playlists that I put in the beginning there. Until next time we'll catch you on the next one. Thanks for watching. Later.