 This morning we did a little gift exchange. I gave Badges coffee. I gave them the French press and Some of those really good keepers Looks like I got in exchange a Multimeter, which is awesome. This is my new French press by the way used to be my sisters snagged at out of the garage I cleaned up also exchange the Lens that I got For a GoPro and a karma grip and I gotta say I Gotta say that was a very smart choice because I'll be using it all the time Let's go check in with badge and see what he thinks about this air conditioning situation here doctor What's the prognosis? You gotta find out about that Yep, and also for everyone who hasn't been paying along paying attention along there is a blend door Up there, there's a blend it's called a blend door actuator and a blend door thing We got to fix that and do some magic to it This one hasn't got electric on it, so it controls all the doors with vacuum See these vacuums all night here, uh-huh Okay, those those metal things yeah right here. See oh, yeah, these are all your vacuum lines, right? This controls all your the heat and everything. Yeah So what we do is we start it up and I can build the vacuum up And then you turn it it has to be on That's a see-but vent, huh? Yeah, AC. Oh you see yeah And see that so see that Right there that solenoid is moving. Okay, so we go to vent. I don't see it moving. Okay. Let me just get this over the way Okay, let's go watch that one there. See the other thing works. Oh, yeah, see all they work Oh, yeah, that's a noise that I've heard before. Yeah. Yeah, that's the that's the vacuum control For and that's working, right? You put it in off and it shuts. Yep, you put it on AC and it opens it, right? You put it over on floor and it shuts. Yep, so it's working all right So the vacuum is not the issue. Is that what I'm gathering? I'm thinking the problem We have to charge the AC Because it's empty, right? Right. So we got to put the AC in and you can't tell the AC's working unless it's charged So we're gonna go down to our buddies at O'Reilly's and get some stuff to charge it. All right This is what you call Vacuum switches, right? Yep. It's not electric like that one door. You remember I said it that control That control you got I said I don't think this is the right one It wasn't because this is vacuum not electric. All right. Okay. Get down in there. All right now reach right back in there And you'll feel a rod right back in there way back in there. Yeah, yeah Okay, yeah now Feel a move? No. Oh, yeah, now it's moving. Exactly. Yeah, that's your blend door that you say is not working. Yeah It's working. The problem with the bus With Danny is that everything's tied together The dash air the back air is all tied together. So everything has to work Yeah, and that's what I said that because when you told me about the vent. I'm thinking I don't know about that. Okay, but the reason venting works because a heater switch wasn't working. Right. Okay. All right So now what we have to do is charge the air conditioning and we know that all the vacuum is working So now what we have to do is go get some stuff to charge the air conditioning and we'll go from there. Okay Just so you guys know I'm not one to argue with an expert. I don't take my teeth to Right here this guy You don't take your car to a dentist and so that's why We're I know he's he's right. He's the he's the magician. He's the pro So we're gonna we're gonna do that at some point today. Okay. You see on Danny It's got these two valves. Now what this does is turns off the water The hot water going to the back heater now These are a real good thing because if you turn these off you have no water hot water in the summer So your air conditioning will work 100% because it doesn't have a hot water. That's why he's worried about the blend door I don't think the blend door is an issue because you turn the water off There shouldn't be no heat there anyway, but that's who we're gonna check that out. Oh Oh My god, look at that the Canadians won the hockey game against the girls. Oh geez too bad a Proud Canadian By the way, you guys been watching any of the Olympics The first game The first game is the first games I watched were the Curling wasn't so exciting, but then you know, I know the next day they had other things and other things and then I kind of missed it The snowboarding was epic Shout out to you know, Sean White and all those guys for doing a great job Chloe came to man her and her dad are goals like they have the best relationship like they're a Good inspiration for people. They're a good example. What's your name? Who's a Forget I think we're gonna sit around and watch the Olympics tonight All right, we're gonna head into town with the doggies we're gonna get some parts This is a very expensive altimeter, but it has a temperature setting on this I'm not saying this is right. I'm just saying this is how we do it as we put the temperature in Yeah, I got a cheese That's what 8,000 dollars of a teeth look like, but anyway, we put this in the AC ducts You put all the windows shut All the windows are shut and you put it on max air and what you're trying to do is to get it to 40 degrees Now if you're filling it up Because I can tell you all the freshers and all that ain't gonna mean nothing to you But if you just fill it to 40 degrees It'll work this fine. And so now all we have to do is fill it So that's what we're gonna do now. All right I bought a set of gauges because I left my gauges in Canada. That's my gift to you actually Well, no, you can't take gifts, but it's we've got a set of gauges anyway, and we're gonna charge it. So I Can't do it without both gauges. I got to have both gauges. I can't do it with the one gauge I have to do two gauges the gauges being the high and low pressure high and low because you got to see when you put it in The low you got to see what it does in high. You never put it in the high That's when you start breaking pumps and stuff. We got this whole kit here gauge and hose set It's a little hard to read because the thing was over it. Okay, now you see these hoses See this little kit. These are the little green things You got to keep them handy because these are if you drop these out or lose them it won't work And if you look in the hoses, there's some there if you don't have them in there it'll leak and it'll give you a false reading So what we got here is a set of high and low gauges blues low Reds high and they got knobs the knobs are to take the fluid From here and put it out to the the lines out Wherever on the high side these turn it off You always keep these turned off Never turn the high on when you're putting free on and you always put free on on the low side This get set of gauges some will have a straighter valve in there So you can take the hose off and it won't leak, but this don't have it. She's got to remember that I know you have to think But you have to remember that you have to have an o-ring on here and this valve Just screws on here like so all this stuff is hand tight. You don't have to tighten it up. It's made that way This red one goes on the same way You can't put a blue on a red and a red in the blue. That's how they make it idiot proof See they're different sizes small one is a low big one is high But the red goes down here right by the battery and that's the high Yeah This is the low the low goes on the small one right so you turn the You turn the end out the valve off or out right Because when it's out it's off you put it on and then we'll turn it in Get this one turn this one probably work a lot better Okay, so when you get it hooked up double check and make sure they don't come off And then you turn the knob in and the knob opens manually opens up the valve. There's not a check valve It's a manual valve like this one. They both got the same, right? You do both do them in the same direction and then you look at that And you notice you can tell you got evacuated because you'll see the gauge will move a Little bit. That's telling you that it's for good. It's had a little bit of freon left in it As long as you got that and not in the negative. You're all right the high side you won't see because it's it's um, oh I should tell you that that gauge is hooked to the hose not to the knob This will always read because it's hooked to the hose. Hmm Right. Mm-hmm. This one's the same way Now this is what they call a sight glass and that when we put the freon in you'll see it go Up the hose and in here and then out the low side And I should mention this is what we are using for the refrigerant for no particular reason I guess in California. There is a returnable deposit $10 a bottle. So there is $50 in returnable cans right here. Also a badge recommended to keep these in the shade out of the direct sunlight You put that there And we're gonna open the valve up and that'll get free on to here So then you open it up just a little bit and watch this here See it see that little bit. That's telling you the freon's going in Okay So now if you notice when you have your air conditioning and it's empty that nothing works So because you need about 20 pounds to kick the clutch in so we'll start it up now And we'll see what happens and we'll most slowly slowly put it in Basically what's happening the freon's coming out of there is a liquid going through the gauge and by the time it comes out of this hose Because of the restriction it'll be a vapor over there so good news after just one can The clutch is is turning on and off Over here. We are a little low on oil. This thing keeps turning on and off as well This thing is turning on and off. You can see some of the liquid going through the system there And this is can number two. This is now working. Yeah, we're through three bottles. I think we're done with the fourth Yep, so we're down to 77 degrees we need it to be 40 All right, here's the update we're at 73 degrees and we are on the very last can so it looks like we're gonna have to get some More cans of refrigerant All right, we're back We got some of this stuff This is a oil apparently you need oil in your AC system. We are seven cans deep I have my foot on the throttle. We have brought it down to now 52 degrees 51 degrees Fahrenheit This is getting pretty ice cold inside here. I'm so excited. You have no idea I have freaking air conditioning again. Finally Yes, badge is a genius. He is my mechanic magician and I am so grateful honestly badge. Thank you so so much You've saved me lots and lots of money See how it's got it walk air in it. Yeah, watch when I rev it up. It'll go away. All right It's like a it's like an eighth of an inch or so so we put another jug in and bring that up because now we don't want to Yeah, the experts say you should suck it all out put in by weight. Tell me how much it holds Good point. We have an aftermarket air conditioner on a Ford vehicle It's a considered a strip chassis just like his classy RV a U-Haul van ambulance things like that So who really knows I don't know. What do you say, dude? I Think you better put your buckskin bra on buddy Yeah, bad you're the man. You're so awesome. I think we should take it for spin, huh? All right. Now. I've told you guys how much I love AC I don't know in words or numbers how I can describe how much I like AC that's right bad That's right bring a parka if you want to ride take a ride in Danny venture bus from now on Bring a Canadian goose down parka It is I forgot what the last reading was 44 45 that is good enough Tomorrow we're gonna go get some parts. I'll probably just gonna call it a day for now We're gonna watch some Olympics eats and food El was nice enough to cook up some stuff with badge So we're gonna have a nice old dinner. We're probably just gonna end it right here and pick back up tomorrow Well, we got a couple more fixes on the bus. Thanks for watching