"Bill" <vfo22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:480be64f.109516513@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone had their AC compressor go bad on these vans? Just using
> the AC after recharging (got low over winter), as I've done before.
> But, now when the AC is turned on, the compressor makes a grinding
> noise that sounds like the bearings, or something like that. I've
> owned this van since '99, and havent had a problem like this before.
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
How often do you have to recharge? To me more often than every few years
is
not normal. You have 2 distinct possibilities here:
1. Oil is lost with the refrigerant as it seeps out so too many
refrigerant
only charges without adding the proper oil for your system will result in
the compressor being oil starved and damaged.
2. You have massively overcharged the system and the noise you are hearing
is actually liquid refrigerant slugging the compressor. Not sure how
likely
this is on a Chrysler expansion valve (TXV/TEV) system.
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