 three-door glass reaching cooler that they're using for something that's in a their personal garage. So we've got a condenser that was a little dirty I brushed it off and our problem right now is our evaporator is frozen up. So let's go ahead and get this thing freaking taken apart so we can get that melted and we'll find out if it's low on charge or what's going on. I'm not seeing the back with these little holes in it so maybe using it for flowers and with it being black it almost looks like it was professionally painted or was ordered that way. Usually it's white so let's see if we can get this thing knocked off there and it's holding it up from the rear this is more of a pain in the butt. Looks like we got two evaporators on this thing. Alright so that let down on me. We're gonna blow those lines out too you can tell those have been growing stuff there for a while. This is kind of sticking with that tar stuff I think that they put in there. Yeah like it's not even draining out because it's fucked up. Nice. And missing the bowl. One of the first things I noticed is the evaporator over there is frozen which I could be just low on charge and have to have enough to freeze that one and this one didn't have enough or it was good enough but here's our tube for our thermostat. It goes right in here and that's how it knows to defrost so we're gonna have to make sure we wire tie or wire that thing up there so that it's in the coil because if it's not then it's not gonna naturally defrost itself. So unfortunately we're gonna have to run some some heat on that thing over there and get that melted and then we'll start finding out whether or not this has a leak. We're gonna blow those lines out too. This is something you can't do with today's current R290 stuff. We'll work or we could use water. We're gonna try the porch first just to see if it makes it melt pretty quick and if not we'll get the water out. It's gonna make a mess no matter what. Got pretty dirty coil there. Let's see what we can do with the regular light. There we go. You see it's kind of nasty there. A little more dirt on the side of the cooler I guess. The last thing you want is to be searching for a leak and then that drips down in your freaking nozzle. That sucks especially depending on what detector you got. So I'm gonna screw them up. Others just plugs up the tip. See if I can't blow these out with that thing. If not we'll go grab the CO2 cartridge. So we scanned it over and did not pick up anything. I even scanned it with the H10. Didn't pick up anything. I'm gonna steal this one out from here see if it's any better but man it does not look like it. Look at that. That thing is freaking snapped and broke there and there. Now and over there is broke too. I mean it only has one leak on it. I did steal the little hooks. These little hooks will come in handy to hold that up here because I really would like to try to keep in the same position as what the factory originally put it. Proper defrosting of the coil. You can see here on this one right right there. That's free water getting in there and breaking. So water will get in there freeze and then break that pipe. That goes right in there. I've pulled this in and out a couple times. It's kind of corroded. The chance starts thermostats probably bad. If we don't have a refrigerant issue then it's gonna be a thermostat sticking. So I'm going to put this together and see if what the refrigerant charge looks like. It's not gonna work very well. I really need my other hands. Basically the way this works is it hooks around the back and it will pop right around it. So I hooked it back here, bring it forward and holds it right in there like that. You can also do it with some wire. That'll work too. Hook it to the back, bring it forward. So we've got three of them in there. I believe I only had two originally, which is kind of less than what I feel as though it was neat. So we've got three in there now. Heck, we don't even know. Maybe the fans ain't running. I mean this thing was unplugged when I got here. See ourselves a potential callback for later. Out of here. Just asking for a plug mirroring. We've got it back into place. Fan spins. And of course that one doesn't. I just found out you can see this one's bent down a lot lower. That's a pretty strong freaking blade. I don't think I did that when I took it down. So I'm gonna pop that out there and see if we can straighten it up a little bit. A lot of times you can kind of gauge it a little bit based off of how flat it is. One will be way up in the air and the other one won't. This is a super sharp angled blade. I can wipe this thing off. It seems pretty even there. It's a little better. There, that one's low. That one's high. That one's high. So this one here is the low one. So we're just gonna have to do a visual. See it's still a little low. It's really hard to get it perfect. That's a strong blade. I can't imagine a little aluminum base here coming down and causing that. I'll sit there and sometimes use my finger and gauge it there. Yeah, high. I'll sometimes use my finger and kind of gauge it to see if it's about the same height, which it's dog down close. I rotate it and here click off. Kick on. So it's opening and closing. Don't mean it's accurate, but they basically store stuff in here for their business and they want it to be running right. Better plugged in. That fan's running. That one's running. Pressor's going. I don't have a lot of extra room here. It's pretty stretched. Liquid line's not cold. Definitely ain't hot. Alright, let's get our gauges on there. Well, that's probably why I didn't find any leaks. It's pulling down into a negative two. It is using 134A, 19 million ounces. So let's give this thing some nitrogen and then we'll pull the vacuum on it. Recharge it. We'll get them going, but let me do a quick check here with the detectors and some nitrogen behind it. It may not have been hardly anything in it, which doesn't help you a whole lot. Alright, small. Hopefully it's not a restriction. That really would suck. So it had about 50 pounds of pressure in it, which ain't a bunch. Usually it's in DOS. We're going to throw some nitrogen behind it and then we'll listen for leak two. I did get the ultrasonic out when I was doing that, but it's really hard to get accurate information when it's dripping water. The water can mislead you and make you believe that you have a leak that you don't have. I haven't checked inside yet, but I got down here to the old suction port and come over to the insulation. Uh-oh, it's an insulation. See that? But we're not getting it there on that part. When you're on the higher sensitivity, just go high. It's still super. It's something in that suction. So we've peeled that off. We're not getting nothing on that. So it must come down and over into this bend. And we're just going to have to peel all that insulation off, take a good look at it and see what's going on. It's probably cracked or sleek into the sidewall somewhere in that suction line. Let's go ahead and check this thing in high here. Please don't go off. I really don't want to change an evaporator. With this being closed up like this, you would get something in here. And it does not appear to be. So let's find out how bad that leak is. All right. Well, we can get over to it to see it. So that's right there in that. So we'll go ahead and we'll mark that and then we'll repair it. It's right in the middle. They've got freaking drain lines, cap tubes, liquid line, which is sticking out the backside so it can get smashed into a wall and broke. It's a lot of crap in the way. So let's see if we can bend some of this out of the way. And we'll mark that with the knife so we can have a scratcher to look at. And we'll just skim code that thing and we'll be good to go. Might as well as make good use of this. We'll get that other side there. Looks a lot better there. All right. So we put a little coating across the top there and went left to right. Got it on there. Let's go ahead and pressurize this back up and recheck it. You could always cut it out of there and get it back in, but I just have this bad feeling about messing with that more than I need to. We'll see how this does first. And if we have to, we're going to cut it out. If we do that, it's going to make it harder to pull the compressor out if you have to do anything to it. Yeah, that's going to make it a little rigid. If you had to bend it. But you also got to look at the condition of this cooler. It's not in the greatest shape. It's definitely got some age on it. Get that insulated back up and get this thing evacuated. That filter dryer is a 3-8. It's a small one. They had a Jerry Riga port on that to even get what they've got, which kind of sucks because I really don't want to remove that. I don't think I don't have any 3-8s or not. I was able to find a 3-8s one in there. It's a little smaller than this other one. It's a 53 and that one there is a 33, which in all reality, it should be able to handle it no problem. I think it's got a ton of just here. 134A, quarter horse. That's filtering. I mean, it's going to allow it through, but the filtering capacity is not going to be completely there. But at least it'll be some new instead of the old desiccant. The flow will still be able to flow through it, but just not as much desiccant. Wow, we got the nitrogen set in here. We're going to make good use of it. I'm going to bleed that out and then we'll bleed as much as we can. Then we'll cut the pressure and then we'll get her done in and all the oxygen will be displaced. That's about the only way you can do a cap tube. If you try pushing through a cap tube, it's not going to happen. It can be. I mean, you could try pushing it through the suction side and push it backwards that way, but this is going to work just fine. I've got it burned in there, which it's almost impossible not to burn that paint a little bit. Got to pull it into the sockets so we're good to go there. Got to pull a vacuum on it. Let's pressurize it again. I'm going to spray it, make sure I don't have any leaks, and then let's get this thing vacuumed down and recharge. One of the best things in the world to see is your suction starting to come up as you're adding through your liquid line. If you don't see that on a reach-in, you've got capillary tube issues. I just poked my head in there and I can hear the refrigerant coming through. You can probably hear it possibly. I don't think you can hear it. I could hear it going for 19 ounces here. There's 17. Probably going to stall out just about there. It's about 5 o'clock. It took almost an hour to melt the ice off. One pound three ounces. Kill it. That dryer is probably more around the lines with what this thing actually was originally. We got the insulation back on there and on the presser itself there too. Did verify, blew through those lines. Made sure that they were clean and clear. Let's see if our pressures are pretty much equalized. Let's kick this thing on and see what it does. 76 and 69 looks close enough to me. Let's see what we get here. Hopefully it runs. There it goes. See what happens. That would really suck. Downside of having a high-end cabinet there. Everything's aluminum on this thing. Nothing's magnetic. So far so good. Still need to dump the high side into it. That'll bring up the suction here. Right now we're kind of up there on the higher end of things. Let this run for a little while and see what we get. Right now we're under heavy load. I can feel the evaporator getting cold there. Hopefully it's getting cold here. It's hard to tell. It's starting to get slow and slow. See what we got here. The suction's up there a little bit, but she's hot. Let her run for a bit. I would say it's probably 80 degrees out here in the garage. So 90, 100, 110. So 20, 30. We're about 20 degrees. 27 degrees higher than we probably should be on our head pressure. But we'll see how she does. If I have to, I'll go grab the nitrogen and blast that coil out directly right off the tank and get that thing blown out nice and clean. Right there's probably not the safest thing in the world. Definitely would never want to put a nozzle on the end of it. But you can get some real pressure through that. I was able to blow all that garbage out. You can see that there's hardly anything left on that shield anymore. I know the head pressure had dropped to 205. Yeah. That went from 220 something down to 205. Suctions came down to you with that, which is good. Yeah, it blew that crap out. Just a disclaimer, don't do that. That's unregulated. And it's potentially 2,500 to 2,800 pounds of pressure on that. And you could take your eyeball out. So one of those unspoken, I never started doing that until about two years ago. And it's worked awesome because going through the regulator's jack squat. But once again, do not do that. It's not safe. All right, guys, it just shut off. Awesome. And we are at 44 degrees. This is majoring coil temperature, not air temperature. I am going to set that one notch colder. I got it on number five right now, which is the normal setting for true. So we'll go one more notch and that should keep them under their 40 degree mark. I think they're mainly keeping just non-perishables in here like beverages. They are ordering or having us order door seals. So we'll get the new door seals on there. The most part we need to get in and get out. We've been here for a few hours getting everything up and going. That's why you really want to make sure that your coils are clean and stuff and that your evaporators are de-iced before you have service guy come out. And we aren't paying them to melt ice. But sometimes you just got to do what you got to do. If you enjoyed the video and you want to see more like it, please give it a big thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe and check out our Facebook group at HVACRsurvival. Until next time, guys, we'll catch you on the next one.