Finding a shorted compressor, doing an acid test, and prepping for a changeout

I heard the air handler come on, do we have here? Contact was pulled in, let's see if we got power. Now I can understand doing this on one of the cues because there's no place to put that capacitor. We got no power. We got a direct short to ground. Let me go back to power and check for each leg to ground. Oh my word, I have been so busy lately. This is a 2008 four ton. let's see is this 410 nope it's r22 it's a direct short to ground let's say there's some acid in the system looks like there's some soot in the system too that turned nice and pink disconnect looks like number six wire let's see what we're sitting on sitting on some bricks and it looks like some osb that's osb