So today's call is a chi rach region. That's not working properly honestly subjugate experience, condenser fan motors, running compressors running, but it's hot suction line is leaf. Warm discharge line is red-hot pressured, consult bypass, high pressure at this point - we're an f1 foot service cajuns on it. Currently, trying to pull the condensing unit out because everything's in here this is just kind of lots of parts that don't belong pressure, controls, okay, but look at how he ran this.

That's that the gauge on that wire. That corn is not big enough to run the entire content in it, and the way this is running is the entire condensing units. Power is running through this pressure control. That's not acceptable! Here's the thing I understand putting these pressure controls in when it's really difficult, but here's the pressure - that's all right here, because this box opens up and you changing you just put the factory one back end I mean but oh well.

I mean I've done it before. Maybe I didn't know what they were doing or why they did it. Maybe they didn't have it but anyway, so I'm pulling this out to be able to access this compressor and put my gauges on it's just really tight. So I've got my gauges on it.

Now. Sucks, that's that compressor still running so the pressure controls bad for sure, and it's completely out of gas. Pretty much somebody go get some nitrogen, there's, probably just enough refrigerant left in there to be a vapor trace. You know I could have a low side leak in that 27 psi and the high side could just be air.

That's been sucked into the system, let's turn it off and see what happens. Looks like refrigerant okay. So this tells me that high side pressure is just air because it's dropped since I shut the system off and when I smelt the refrig, what you know what was in there, it doesn't smell like refrigerant, so that's it's got a big enough leak. More than likely on the low side that it's sucking in air and pressurizing, the system, which is not good for the compressor valves.

So what we're going to do is put a tracer of four or four and then top it with like 200 psi and nitrogen. And we're going to find this leak. I have a very strong feeling it's gon na be up in this coal grill, but we will find out a little bit more. You see this rail right here, it's Boston and it's just hanging and that's a the refrigerant lines.

Come in here loops and then comes back so got our refrigerant cylinder up we're going to go ahead and open it up. I already purged it pressurizing. The high side put a little bit of gas in there. That's bottom more than button shut it off and then we'll put nitrogen on top of it.

That is just a tracer gas. So that way, my electronic leak detector will pick up the leak, because, if I did it with just nitrogen, it would be hard. You would just have to so bubble it and if it's big enough leak, so bubbles will work. But and now we've got a nitrogen hooked up going on test.

First raise the high Stein open it up on the low side. So it's leaking right up in the pan chili. So I'm going to talk to the customer and see if they want me to do a temporary, they have a guy that will come in and fix this familiar when cutting help me cut the top of this and very well that we've done boy. Is this thing butchered look how they fit a flared valve in there? This stuff makes me laugh, okay, so what they will customer wants me to do.

Is I'm going to temporarily isolate the top from the picture, so we're just going to cut this guy, maybe like right here and right here and we're gon na pitch it off and weld them shut. So that way it doesn't leak anymore. Now that kind of stinks man not a great way to do this sucks. I try to make it easy for the guy, but he's probably going to need to change this valve, to get it going.

There's no room in there for me to really cut it anywhere else, really sucks, but okay, so we're gon na isolate the top. And then we can pull a vacuum and get the bottom section running okay. So here's what we got going on, there's a guy that used to work for this company Kyra at least that's the way. I've heard it and he knows where to cut these boxes.

So that's why I'm not doing this repair, so what I did temporarily was. I pulled the cold rail out of the picture. Now it's not completely isolated. This solenoid valve I'm gon na just disconnect power to the solenoid valve.

Normally, if I was doing a pressure test or something I pull the solenoid valve out of the picture too, but this is just temporary because this guy's literally coming in tonight, so all that I'm gon na do is turn off the temperature controller shut down. That solenoid valve I cut the top and I've raised it shut now. The other thing is is that this is where my expansion valve sensing bolt is gon na go. There was really no good place to cut this, so I gave the guy a couple options just to be nice.

I made him a swage fitting to renew that whole thing and he can cut it up in here, but he's gon na have to pull this coil out to get in there to cut that, or I made him a straight fitting with a swage on the end. I'm just trying to help the guy is that what he's saying here tonight, but he's gon na, actually cut the top of the box. So I'm gon na be done with this. I'm just going to vacuum the system down and charge it up, and then the customer has this guy coming in he's done this a bunch before where he has to cut the cold rails, and I honestly would rather not have the liability of cutting into that, because I don't know where the refrigerant lines go, so I'd rather say good riddance, but he's essentially probably I've seen him going he's gon na get in here and cut all this back out and then get in here and repair that see it's it's right in there, where The lines come down, there's like a little crack.

You can kind of see in that corner, but it's actually leaking behind that. So he's gon na have to probably cut more so into here, and my thing is, I don't know because these lines go from each thing. I don't know where they're at so I'd, rather not even be a part of it, so this guy'll get in here and then Hilary's support these I've seen him do it before he resupport s -- these rails. But that's what happened? Is this rail over time? This is an old box, it just fell down and then the weight of it broke the line behind the wall.

So what we're doing is isolating the top taking it out of the picture to get the bottom running, so they have a base section. The company before me, just you, know, hacked the hell out of this thing, but we'll get it back up and running all right, so the systems running the compressor does have bad valves, though the suction valve is leaking by inside the compressor, but I think it'll get Them through I'm gon na have to talk to them and give them a big-picture repair. They got to get that cold rail fixed tonight and probably have to put a compressor right in. I would suggest we get rid of that pressure control.

I would suggest we tie in a high pressure control again, unlike this one change the dryer, but for now the bottom is coming down in temperature. It'll, get them through the night also suggest that they, let me get a fan guard on that you've got longer that that's it. Sometimes you got to do these temporary repairs, that's what the customer once they can't always go the way you want them to. They can't always be perfect situations where you get to do new installations.

Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to make the customer happy. Okay, this is one of those situations sure I'd like to tell them they needed to throw that whole box away and clean it. You know, put a new one in there whatever, but that's not necessarily practical. Okay, I'm not perfect nobody's perfect.

Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do so in this situation, the customer ended up having their guy come in repair that cold rail. We ended up going in there like a week later, putting a new compressor in the box. Put that fan guard on and other than that they left it alone. They didn't want to change the expansion valve because it was still working so and I get it.

You know why not spend money if you don't have to now we'll address. If we ever have to change an evaporating oil or something in that box, then we'll put a new expansion valve and repipe that inside so it looks all pretty, but you know sometimes you got to do what you got to do, and this is a perfect example Of a typical refrigerator, you're gon na see in a restaurant, okay, they're gon na be beat up. You know, they're gon na have aftermarket components on it. I prefer them not to, but they do they're gon na be dirty okay.

This is this is normal. You know you're, never gon na go see a shiny, shiny restaurant. Like you see on TV or anything like that, okay, they're dirty, it is what it is. You know to be honest with you.

I don't even notice that the dirt, when I'm working on these things, because I just it's force of habit, I put gloves on put cardboard down when I lay in the box and just move on okay, it's just one of those things when you're dealing with restaurants. That you have to learn to deal with, so that's pretty much. It guys appreciate you guys taking the time to watch my videos, please consider subscribing. If you haven't already and check out some of these other channels that are popping up, they got some great content too.

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