 So that's kind of scary. We may need to add a little more to it. We're going to let this finish drying off, but if that's showing low when that coil is wet, it means we've got to add a little bit more for the winter charge or it's going to be low this winter. So we've got us a walking cooler here that's not running right. Just getting here and looking at it, noticing that we've got the oil pretty bad off the receiver here leaking, obviously. Savy probably are low on refrigerant. It's kind of hard to tell. She's running super hot. I was going to say, when I first did it, it didn't show up. That's something you got to watch out for. It is too strong. You can see it's just blown it right out. So that needs to be done. Surprisingly, this is actually 134A. At first I didn't see the bubble. Then I came in here and started sniffing away. Then it was like, oh yeah, wham. So, yeah, she goes over 999. We're going to go ahead and scan it over for other leaks just in case. So I don't want to, like I said, you don't want to just go with the first leak you find and and then walk away from it. Next thing you know, you've got other issues because there's plenty of other spots in here that look like it could be leaking. So we went ahead and just got our gauges on there. We're going to go ahead and bleed on our hoses. Wait, we're cleaning clear. I'm going to kick it on and see where we're at. Look how badly it's leaking around the cap. That's not good. As far why they had the leak a lot of crap on there. It does have a hacking nut there so they might be able to close that thing off. So we'll go ahead and see. Also while we're doing that, we'll be able to test the low pressure switch. Make sure it cuts off. Don't get too crazy with it. That's great. So your low pressure switch is not good either. Nice. This is where you really get stuck in a hard place. You should want to help people out but if you want it to work right you just got to replace what needs to be replaced. I'm going to have to tell them what's going on. Might be able to adjust it. We can take a look here and see. You don't want to open that thing up while it's in a negative. If we do this quick enough we can do it without having to pull a vacuum on it. So we're going to go grab the flaring tool. Okay we're using our orbital flare tool. Same thing I use on my Hissabishie and many splits whatever. It's got the head that sits there and spins and orbits as it does its thing. So we've got our first piece in there. Went ahead and cleaned up our sight glass. It's all better looking now. Is able to clean that all out. Got her all oiled up. What I keep on here is just an old oiler and switch to PoE. I just use this for flare joints or stuff like that and basically got her all ready to go cleaned it up. So just got to finish screwing her together and get her back together and we'll get this thing prepped up and ready to go. I've got the compressor valve off, high side valve off. I'm going to open up the load side push back any air that might have got into this short little section. Same thing here with this before I totally tie that down. I'm just going to bleed a little bit to here, a little bit to there. Won't be good to go. These little generic wrenches are like 10 bucks made by G.B. Sometimes these are actually useful to getting you into tight spots where you can't get your screwdriver. I mean I have used a screwdriver for years and years and it's not that often that I would need anything like this but there's some times where it just makes it a little easier. I did check to make sure this was dead. Got my little volt pin there it always comes in handy. You never know on some of these old ones a lot of times they might break the neutral not the hot leg so make sure you check your voltage and make sure it's completely dead before getting involved into it and as always this is only for people that are trained properly in the field so don't go playing in here unless you've been trained disclaimer disclaimer yippy yippy. So we got that all back in there got our tube on there this is some really thick stuff so it's shouldn't vibrate got it spaced out put our oil on there so let's go ahead and get this thing back up and going that cooler is already pretty warm so let's see anything coming out there on that not really let me back that up one turn because you gotta have your high pressure fans so I can switch on there and then crank that in a turn should make that run so pressures are up go ahead before you get too too far along and we'll make sure actually that this thing pumps down correctly so I've got it cutting in about 25 28 area which is about 33 degrees and you could get it all the way up to 38 if you wanted but I don't like taking a chance so kind of palming it off then and making sure she pumps down unfortunately the controls a little faster than the gauges are yes you can do it with a nitrogen tank and turn it up and down stuff like that I just you got to have the right fittings and stuff ready to go and I don't have it set up it's actually holding down their own fives may actually gotten it there kind of a cool old-fashioned looking sight glass but if you're going to replace that then honestly the oil's black it should be replaced there's so many things on this that should be replaced I already know that that's not going to be likely also this right here if you guys get those guys that like to wrap insulation on the line it sticks to it it's paying the butt to get it off this takes it off the heartbeat and by these at lows I like it because it fits right on the impact she's run a little higher head 100 123 degree condensing temperature and all I can do is recommend stuff but like I said I think they're gonna want to try to keep all the costs down this thing is it's uh what we call tired very tired I had one little bitty leak here on top which it tightened it up sprayed it afterwards I didn't pick nothing up you can create a leak by going too tight so I like to go moderate yeah I could have got out my torque wrench but nobody does that usually for just normal normal fittings I just got a full sight glass ended up being about three pounds two ounces I would say it was probably a pound in there ahead of time maybe somewhere in that ballpark but worst case scenario 10 percent over three pounds for my winter charge that should put me right in that ballpark maybe 15 percent so just got to calculate that up and then we should be probably good to go the cooler is a little bit warm so I don't want to get too berserker though we're going to pump it down one more time just to make sure it can pump down that the head pressure don't start spiking I added about eight extra ounces too it's what I calculated up so it's starting to drop there now and then once that's done we're going to disconnect get all the stuff picked up and I'm going to go ahead and worse this thing out I want to see where she shuts off at whether she starts rising back and forth plus that cooler being a little warmer it is going to rise a little bit on that suction and it is picking up a lot more I would say the solenoids on the inside obviously not out here and but it seems like it's holding pretty decent 13 pounds it's not coming on to about 25 28 area so it pumped down just fine it's not like rapid cycling back and forth which is good all right so go ahead and release her here there goes the mat dash loving that's the coolest thing in the world watch that solid cyclist nothing worse than seeing an empty one so go ahead and I'll forget you back that out all the way and you're gonna shut down your pressure switch just pointers for the new guys these are mistakes that I've made several times usually I catch them before I go but I ain't gonna say I've done every one of these and forgotten them but I definitely have my share of mistakes anybody that says they have it is lying every day we're learning every day we're learning something new so all right time to work this thing out and go inside and double check the inside for any leaks any large leaks I should say okay I always like to make sure the sporks got all the way in there and then double check those fuses make sure that the right ratings so we got that back in there we got her washed out that made a little bit of difference I bet it wasn't horrid but you can definitely see through it now a lot better probably heard if it had a little piece of cardboard across the top which might build them one real quick clean that coil out made a little bit of difference those fans are cycled on and off three times but now we're showing a little bit low so that's kind of scary we may need to add a little more to it we're going to let this finish drying off but if that's showing low when that coil is wet it means we've got to add a little bit more for the winter charge or it's going to be low this winter now I got the other gauges back out okay so we're going to cool this thing down a little bit and see if that flashes off our you can see the movement in there we're not getting crazy we're just bringing that temperature down yep see so soon as winter would have rolled around that would have been too low kind of a generic old-fashioned trick in a way but this is basically emitting the outdoor temperature being low you know it's not a big deal if you live where it's warm and your winter is like 60 degrees I mean that's not what it is around here we get down to negative temps usually not super low but somewhere in a negative five negative tens not unheard of it's not very often not all the time but that's staying pretty pretty consistent right there so I'm going to say we're probably good to go go ahead and stop her basically we added about another eight ounces it looks like so we're we're good it's kind of cool as they had to shut off back here I made it a lot easier as you can tell this is a older one just a little bit so I got a couple little randoms in here I mean what do you expect I mean it is kind of uh two or three years old so we could shut this fan down I know that the suction side pressure is going to be really low but I'm looking for large large leaks like I said they know the system's old they don't want to put a lot of money into the thing so that's something as the new guys you get out there and stuff not everything's cut and dried everybody wants to replace everything not everybody has the money to replace everything so you've got to make things work that you know you don't have a lot of options you just got to make it majority of the leaks were all on the high side got decent airflow through it the inside coil is a little bit dirty but you know it is what it is where do you stop like I said you could replace the oils you can do all kinds of stuff the compressor's getting old the coils are old things to start the leak all right guys like I said the system's pretty old they don't want to sink a crap load of money into it so you got to cut me some slack there you can only do so much for it you got to make a judgment call on it because I mean if I was to do what I want to do I would be wanting to change oil I'd be wanting to do a little bit of everything to it you know but that just isn't feasible so if you guys liked the video and you enjoyed it and you want to see more like it please give it a thumbs up if you want to help support the channel I have links down below to all the tools that I use in the video so I appreciate all you guys tuning in and watching and subscribing don't forget to click the notification bell and until next time guys we'll catch you on the next one