I have an ice maker under the hood (ac)
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Re: I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) High Humidity, happen to me once on way to Dallas. Turn it off for awhile and let it warm and never had another problem.
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Re: I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) I had a ice maker too and found the refrig pressure a tad low.. so i moved it to the top
of the green with my $15 dollar orielly's gauge
and now it works much better
here is the pic
http://ls1info.com/friggauge.jpg
In houton this time of year according to this
chart -> http://ls1info.com/article.php?sid=233
85-95F and above %30 humidity you shoud have
42-46psi
I still have problems with the AC not blowing to
good because of some huge ice buildup inside the
blower box. This happens on long roadtrips.
Fix turn it off for 5 min and its fine yet again.
<small>[ July 17, 2002, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: TA_2001 ]</small>
of the green with my $15 dollar orielly's gauge
and now it works much better
here is the pic
http://ls1info.com/friggauge.jpg
In houton this time of year according to this
chart -> http://ls1info.com/article.php?sid=233
85-95F and above %30 humidity you shoud have
42-46psi
I still have problems with the AC not blowing to
good because of some huge ice buildup inside the
blower box. This happens on long roadtrips.
Fix turn it off for 5 min and its fine yet again.
<small>[ July 17, 2002, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: TA_2001 ]</small>
Re: I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by blackend02:
<strong>i would have to bet you have a low charge.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That isn't the case. I had it charged about 2 months ago by a very good friend's brother. He does this stuff for a living. I was right there when he did it as well. The car is only a little over a year old and I remember it not blowing very hard before for no reason, but had never looked untillt today.
<strong>i would have to bet you have a low charge.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That isn't the case. I had it charged about 2 months ago by a very good friend's brother. He does this stuff for a living. I was right there when he did it as well. The car is only a little over a year old and I remember it not blowing very hard before for no reason, but had never looked untillt today.
I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) I was driving back from across town a few minutes ago here in Houston, and my AC wasn't blowing very hard at all and couldn't be adjusted. It was cold though. When I got back to work, I popped the hood b4 shutting off the car or the AC to make sure the compressor was still turning, and i had no torn belts, etc. I looked at the condensor(I think that's the right name for it), and it was frozen. It had a nice layer of ice all the way around it. I turned the car off and started it back up with the AC off, turned it to vent, then turned the ac on. Everything was back to normal and the condensor had defrosted. Anybody know why it might do that?
Re: I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) I believe you're talking about the aluminum can looking thing, which is called the Drier and/or the Accumulator. The condensor sits behind the radiator.
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Re: I have an ice maker under the hood (ac) May have just iced up the evap core. The A/C
control ought to keep the evap just above
freezing, but I've had other cars that got
iced up. When you get the evap core iced up,
you lose most thermal transfer (no air through
the fins, just around the ice block).
So then you have cold expanded refrigerant
heading back out to the compressor.
The old shade tree way of figuring a full
charge was to keep adding juice until the
return line began to "sweat". Then you know
you have more charge running than the evap
can boil off.
control ought to keep the evap just above
freezing, but I've had other cars that got
iced up. When you get the evap core iced up,
you lose most thermal transfer (no air through
the fins, just around the ice block).
So then you have cold expanded refrigerant
heading back out to the compressor.
The old shade tree way of figuring a full
charge was to keep adding juice until the
return line began to "sweat". Then you know
you have more charge running than the evap
can boil off.
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