This Condenser Was Nearly Dead From Extreme Filth

Hey guys, in today's video, I'm going to take you along on a service call and I'll go ahead and tell you this is one of the worst condensers I've ever seen. It was bad, but it got a total transformation. You're going to like this video. Stay tuned. Your tools will walk around to the condenser. Did that just move? Look at that condenser. the coil right now i'm going to focus over here and by the looks of the coil i would not be shocked if that compressor is shorted if we got power we do not have power all right first thing i'm going to do i'm going to put my own meter on beep test for continuity i have to select something else on this meter to get to just check ohms to ground i'm sorry but this space is giving me the heebie jeebies i'm reading like it started at like seven megohms and then went to um zero two megohms slowly going up to zero that was turned off you'll see that it has to be turned like this for it to come on you'll see that fan trying to move all right we need to check capacitor and definitely this thing needs a really deep cleaning let's check capacitor first i swear the way this looks I'd like to remove the condenser bulldoze this right here and start over. All right, let's make sure we don't have power They're lucky that compressor still works See if I can read this capacitor I am reading zero is good let me see i gotta go get my filter anyway so i'm going to the filter forgive me i'm gonna go get a filter capacitor and get ready to clean this thing up this is terrible my battery died i'm finding some ants so i need to be careful it's a miracle that compressor absolute miracle it was still running i got my work cut out for me i do not know how it was running before but it's definitely going to be running better really just washing off the outside right now and i am going to chemically clean this thing i'm shocked that compressor hadn't killed over this is this thing's so dirty i'm surprised it you know kept up last summer if it did they probably had a high electric bill that now that i just threw that out i know what that was that was one of the screws that hold the panel on pecan tree right here and those are pecan holes i'm pulling out they look like leaves but they're not let's hook up our chemical i'm gonna add some water to it first obviously it's already got a little bit of soap in it there's very little left in this bag right here but we're gonna add it to this stuff is super concentrated this one little bag makes like nine gallons so even though i'm mixing it with water and this mixes it with water when i'm spraying it it usually foams up pretty good it's not very potent is it it's foaming a little bit coil so it's full of dirt it looks like it's orange and if you're familiar with south georgia we usually have red dirt this thing's gonna run much better all right let's empty our our cleaner if y'all been doing coal cleaning as long as i have you remember when doing something like this we make it feel like um ants were biting you because little droplets of the coil cleaner had enough acid in them that they would burn you this coil cleaner is different i'm gonna spray some on that in here i've still got it i'm just gonna keep spraying until i'm almost out of soap all right i'm gonna let that sit for a little bit i am replacing that capacitor on that control box but i don't want to get it too wet that coil is stained red down there on the bottom i had somebody comment about my boots you see me stepping in this my boots are waterproof they are leather just plain leather boots but um they go up above my ankle i do not know if those are on my store but those are american made Thorogoods in combination with some wool socks my feet never get wet i was done washing this and we can start putting it back together i've been battling with this i tried to do one side the front that ain't working all right getting that housing around the coil was clearly the hardest part of everything i've done so far get the fiend shroud and put it back on there's some of those jumping spiders in these right here black widow egg balls or brown widow they look the same either one you don't want to get bit by you can see a little better that's there i got is not near as big around as this one diameter is much different let's go get it and guess what i've got some plumbing strap give me a self-tapper we'll get this thing put in okay we got us a 45 and 10 my common is over here my yellow is my hot you just don't want this thing rolling around in here have to do go to see this one has this C has four spade connectors purple is for my horn it has three spade connectors there's going to be a brown one all these for my fan motor right here all three of them all right that right there is for my compressor remind me to tighten that back up this i'm gonna put over here on run that's the wait a minute that's loose too looking for my need needle nose all right when i tighten these up i grab it on the back of the spade connector right here just press it a little bit not too much and you'll never want to do that on the front because then your spade connector will have trouble even fitting on there okay what was the other one this one tighten it up on the back let's see where this one goes not easily anyway thing that was loose too okay only one left is my common it goes over here black with black all right that's good pull these wires through make it nice and clean looking and we'll clean these up work for that little moment right there like i said i don't know how it was cooling before but it's got to be doing much better now i can feel that suction line and it is nice and cold i almost am hesitant to put gauges on it or probes because i know if that one starts leaking if that Schrader core starts leaking it's hard to replace because of that um pressure switch right there forgive me my battery is dying i don't have much of a cell signal out here i think i've got enough to get my pressures for 10. if y'all can see that if y'all can see that head pressure 337 and um suction of 116 by trying to get my attention we are done here this customer is going to be thrilled with the result that's the kind of job that i like to do it um it's satisfying to know you've you've done a good job for your customer and that the equipment is probably going to last longer because you did a good job if you like videos like that like and subscribe and thanks to all my subscribers i just found out a little while ago we hit 90 000 catch you on the next one