 Today we've got a walk-in freezer that's not working. They just turned it on for the beginning of the season and they said it didn't run So we're gonna check it out and see what we got going on We just called the people and they're heading this way Then we'll go ahead and get it opened up and see if we got power and start with the basics here Guys final resting place here because it doesn't like to set still Get a like a seat belt it in So I just went inside and check the evaporator section. It's not running You know that here's the solenoid The heaters are not on Looks like we're in defrost possibly. Let's rotate our clock which is Not wanting to oh my Not wanting to turn at all. Holy crap Yeah, that clock's jacked Man, oh man, that thing is bad That you can see all the dust a lot of stone driveways around a lot of things going all over the place So we have both lakes of power. So let's check see if we got a signal chances are I'm thinking it's probably a little pressure switch So we just checked the low pressure switch and it is open So fans aren't gonna run because the thermostat inside hasn't gotten cold enough Compressor ain't running because it's open So let's see what our pressures are and if it's a defective switch or if we've lost our refrigerant charge See what we got That ain't good Okay Now let's check the high side make sure that solenoid is opened up. I want to make that mistake I've done that before start looking for a leak And didn't realize that the solenoid or whatever wasn't really energizing though you Think it is or you hear it and you think it's opening So we get here heck these freaking valves could be shut for all we know you never know some people Want you to shut them down for the season and completely pump them down and valve them off. Oh No, look at that Nothing there either peek in here Those are off the loose they're open That water in there. It's nice All right good grief So at this point they need us to look for a leak I think we could probably do a visual look around here sight lacer shows green still at least that's good oil anywhere so Don't see anything in here Looks pretty good She's definitely energized. She's hot. I Don't see any Place where it would be leaking out yet It kind of goes across Through that wall there so we'll follow that over there, but Yeah, I'm gonna get some pressure on it and start sniffing Let's just make sure that's either 22 or 404 hopefully it's 404 Okay, so we went ahead and put some trace gas in there and so I didn't put in very much, but Just dump some liquid in there That's the last dang thing I really wanted to have happen Disconnect box there. It was half ass installed Man, oh man. That is some good stuff right there. You see that you don't it's not that's not the way it was built That right there's why you hire professionals to do your electrical. What's um, uh-oh. What's that right there? Do you see that right there's a dark spot? I bet we've got our leak right there didn't see that All right, let's go ahead and stop adding nitrogen to it. Let's get this thing opened up and take a look in there So we sprayed it and nothing's really bubbling We add a little more pressure to it and then might grab the ultrasonic My friends over at infocon sent me this to try out It's the whisper You know, I like my other one that I've used quite a bit, but this got a couple neat features to it it Can do it with and without headphones But without the headphones it does beeping whereas with the headphones you can actually hear it So you can do that or you can just hear the the squishy noise that it makes when you rub your hands together Well as soon as I got over to it, I can hear it Something's going on in there. Holy crap Not seeing anything. It sounds like it's my freaking hose, but Let's take my hose off see if that eliminates it Yeah, my hoses are leaking that sucks. I've had a lot of problems with my hose. I think it's time for new ones Don't go on. I was really hoping obviously that's not it. So I Was all excited I'm hearing something in here though on that vow We only got about 82 pound We only have about 82 pounds on it. So I don't have a lot that Liquid snot there is like thicker and I'll get out. So I'm gonna get in there and invest to get a little closer All right, soon as I tightened up the cap, it stopped Pulled the cap off and looked at it. Look at that green crap. I don't know what the that's Something they did at the factory or what I've never seen that before There's some sort of aluminum cap or something Normally, it's brass just straight in there Somebody did something they shouldn't have done Looks like somebody half baked a repair there Let's take a squirt here and see what we got going on. Oh Wow Look at that. That seal is toasty critter She is jacked to the max. You have an option here. You can either Cut it out or you can tighten the cap up the Seal in that brass piece. It's in between there is obviously shot. I would say either it got Damage when they were putting it together or they overheated it when they brazed it in But that's definitely The heck of a leak right there. We'll double check the rest of the system I'm gonna stop just there because that's never a good idea All right, so I'm thinking we're probably okay. I don't have a lot of pressure in here But I do have at least 90 pounds and if it's a big leak like we have right now That's enough to lose everything We should caught it. So I would say that when we got out there is the only one I did tighten it up and it's not showing anything with 90 pounds of pressure, but that's on the hot gas discharge so I'm probably gonna go ahead and cut that thing out. I've had to do it before and I just don't trust it It's gonna possibly heat up and leak again later. I don't like possibilities of callbacks So not a big deal whether things there or not. So we'll just get rid of it We're gonna go ahead. We're gonna cut out that valve. We're gonna replace that clock We're gonna replace the contactor and replace the dryer there I checked the head of the TXV and then as I got looking around I seen stickers that show that it had a F-404 orifice I yanked the pressure switch off there and just so you know there was no Schrader core in there So don't try to change that thing live They didn't do anybody any favors by doing it that way. Yeah, it does have a depressor on it It's got threads if that's got threads we're gonna put a Schrader core in there that way We don't have to cover the whole unit if it freakin goes bad. We're gonna go ahead and get that out of there That's probably hooked on the back side. I bet you yeah, it is so we're gonna have to man handle that and get it out of there I'm not lifting the whole freaking unit up All right, so we got it out of there Before y'all have a flip fit. I Just went ahead and cut it You never do this But you'll get shavings in the system Which is why I went ahead and cut it there, but then used a pipe cutter down here So I had it out of there so I could get underneath of it and actually get it out if you notice inside there Let me turn on the light here You can see the blackness in there. Let's just say that blackness didn't get in there probably from the factory So my plan is to just leave it right in there like that right there. That's the dub from the other side I unbraised the one side and it broke off inside there. So The diameter that should fit right into that and it's most likely. I bet you five eights. So We're just gonna put a little piece in there between here and there That headmaster there is a hundred and eighty five pounds. So we'll remember that for a little bit later Hopefully that works. Okay, but definitely don't want to get no shavings or no crap inside that headmaster or any of the other Components because things don't work real well when you do that But that's one of my little shortcuts to get things out I don't mind doing it with a saw as long as you use a pipe cutter at a different location so that you don't get the shavings into the system So as you can see that's where it broke off at Then we just cut it right there and then that ended up not being threaded on the bottom Good to go. You got everything all cleaned up just for easier breezing So I just get that little thing there over top of there and just leave that in there It's kind of works out good. I'm able to purge right backwards through all the valves And then it's venting out there. So as I get any remaining Non-convincible oxygen out of there will start brazing on that the solenoids closed on the other side It could have always closed the valve there We got the pipe in there and got a little clamp I built Put some double-sided tape on there foam tape we've got a straighter core and the port there, so if we ever have to change the Switch we will be able to and I've got a zoom spout oiler that I've changed over to PoE oil So that's what I'm going to use there on the threads reverse this thing a little bit And then we'll get it screwed on there And I got the new contactor in there how to use some of the extra little jumpers there I kind of call them piggybacks These gizmos here They kind of come in handy to get the extra spot there so Most of those wires are control wires and they're on there pretty good Crump down any of the ones that were a little bit loose Got the main power wires under the heavy lugs Put the clock in the new case here. That's gonna help keep the dust out of it I'm just gonna seal that up a little bit, but even at that I mean the dust getting in there is gonna be a whole lot less likely than what it was before the Screw right there can be gotten to from there, which I'll put a little piece of tape on the backside of that It's gonna be better than what it was. The other one had a date code of 05 So, you know, it's lasted 16 years now So it's you know, it did well for the years that it's out here. I mean you've got Stone driveways well, it's paved now, but previously it was probably stone Had only extend one wire for number three there, which worked out pretty okay The rest of the contactors and switches and relays seem to be all right Just got to get a couple wire ties in there. We got the filter dryer on I went ahead and went with a sweat dryer Give it a little squirt of the gray paint built me a little Nipple there to get me into the dryer because of the area that I had to cut out for the other dryer just easier That's where that switch tool comes in really handy We finally got the vacuum pump on there now what I could have done and probably should have done I sometimes get One track minded is when I was doing the electrical stuff there I should have went ahead and done my filter dryer first that way it could have been Evacuating while I was doing the electrical that way you're making more use of your time Sometimes you forget. I'm not gonna spend all day trying for the perfect vacuum. It had a green indicator it had you know Not gone into a negative pressure because the pressure switch cut it out when I was doing the Brazing on the filter dryer was able to purge through the receiver there went ahead and put some oil on the threads got it all back together tighten the packing nut on the Valve there the answer coil probably could use wash, but we spent a little bit of time trying to do it Right, so we may not spend a lot of time Worsen it out right now. I know I'll probably be back for their ice cream machine and may end up doing it then It's one of the things where it's Monday, and I'm sure there's things coming in that we need to get done Just got to balance everything. We're using cheater there that everybody flips out about when I built I put a fuse on it. I got a ground on it, and I'm going right off my neutral and hot leg right here on the block Which is about as simple as you could ask for To each their own There's no plugs out here, which is kind of so well, you know what there was a plug right there so whatever Probably ain't turned on while we're waiting on that. I kind of Take a look at the old bag here Like I said, I just got this MC version of the tech pack a little shelf thing is kind of cool I think I don't like there's no way to really keep these things out of the dirt Say it just got done raining and you got a lot of water on the ground I mean, yeah, I'm hooking it here to make it easier But man when you unhook it that gets right in the frickin dirt and everything else Which there's really not a lot you can do with it other than put it on something I mean it is a tool bag. It is made to get dirty the only thing I see That probably isn't the heaviest duty of things is the straps I mean the nice thing is they did put the shoulder straps there So if these do become too big of an issue you could always probably chop them off They do have a neat velcro thing there to hold those up to keep them out of the way Which has been pretty cool so far still waiting to hear back from veto on the rivets why the hell they put them on the bottom Just seems kind of odd just taking a basic look inside there It's thermometer and my extensions, you know, you can only squeeze so much in these top ones here top pieces here Really short so you can't get anything really long in there other side like most people It's just kind of the leftover stuff that I don't use very often, which is why I put it there the Cape holder thing I was gonna try to drill there But the drill release loose on this one compared to my other bag not really using the bag to full capacity yet These do pull out, but we'll go into a full review at a later time All right, so I finally got it vacuumed down it held blank off I didn't go for the perfect 500, but it did stop at point zero zero far as leak rate Which is what I was more concerned with what I'm doing is boiling off the refrigerant I don't have all day to boil refrigerant. I don't think there was really any moisture in there If there was any moisture in there, it wouldn't have it would have raised I would suspect it's probably gonna hold maybe 14 pounds. That's a pretty good size receiver So we're finally running the fans Wanted to make sure they were running before I continued to add refrigerant Had a full site glass Which I haven't added from the winter charge yet, which this doesn't run in the winter anyway See my liquid lined it get Included in the squishy clamps So it's going to have to get wire tied for now. There's nothing at the bottom They chop it completely off and put the priority in the electrical there We're holding steady there. We only held about 11 12 pounds So we're going to put about 15 percent 10 percent more Make sure we don't have any vibrations on anything Nothing's rubbing into something calculated out about a pound and a half area So I go ahead and put this into Keyfrost And heard one click Well that sure as hell didn't come down very far did it? Now I guess it is a freaking scroll compressor and they're a little bit worried about going into a vacuum Our heater elements are pulling about 11 and a half 16 there. Let's kick her back out It's on awfully quick Let's do our settings right here Looks like they got them about 22 with about 25 so Package it's slow to react in time. So Not a big thing there. Let's go ahead and get the time set right About 11 ish area Unfortunately, it's going to go right into a defrost here in a little bit I don't really need that So probably fast forward Through that I'm going to do that for a while until I get all the cover on then we'll change it It's 43 in here except for negative four with a seven differential So she's dropping Pressures are looking pretty good 98 liquid negative nine Suction got the Line wire tied up some big old thick wire ties there It's better than what it was. They'll last a little longer than just standard wire ties Check for vibration areas there where it came through which Be nice if they would have sleeved that but It's been in this long. I am Pretty sure we did not install this just from the way it was installed. I know it's sure as heck we wouldn't do that Went ahead and put a bolt on that to keep the people from pulling the disconnect But yet still makes it so we can get into it Um Psyglass is staying full. I did a pump down again and Used some heat and my infrared And it's somewhere between 70 area. So we're good on our receiver levels Box isn't at temperature. I'm not going to miss some super heat or anything like that because it's been working I know the vacuum helps. We don't have any leaks We already done the preliminary pressure tests ultrasonic and refrigerant both And then we did some things there to make the Pfrost clock hopefully lasts longer than the last one did got the new contactor on And the new filter dryer So we were starting to pack it up and then I noticed it was still getting some bubbles I ended up having to add about two more pounds to this thing box ain't at temperature So I assumed that we're finally starting to drop more Starting to feed better things like that and uh Now she's keeping pretty many it wasn't flashing bad, but I was getting some little micro bubbles in there Did a pump down on it. It did fine Like I said, I didn't think that receiver seemed as full as what it was and that's a pretty good size receiver It should be good now. I re uh, rewrote it on the inside there That sounds a little more like it. It may even hold as much as 16 and a half or 17 I can't stay much longer. So I've got to go If you guys enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it make sure you subscribe Don't forget to share it. Leave me a comment down below and until next time. We'll catch you on the next one