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This is how to replace a diverter valve on a compresion style tub set up
what you want to do is turn your diverter so your water drains down into your tub spout
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You don’t have to turn off your water but you do want to make sure that the water
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is drained from your shower head so that’s why you are
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putting it down to your tub spout what you need to do is remove your index button by putting the knife
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underneath there. This one has a
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philips screw to remove the
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handle.
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And it’s a good idea to plug your toe stop
so you don’t loose your screw down the drain.
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Next your going to undo your escuteon just a little bit. And than you can twist out
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the sleeve like so
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with the escuteon.
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And you don’t want to grab it
on the ends because you don’t want to damage the threads especially on the ends.
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Now this exposes our diverter valve. What you want to use is a deep socket set and slip that over the
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body and than if you have a piece of laminated
paper or even a piece of paper. What you can do is
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insert that into your hole.
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And that way divert any water that, leftover water that may come out from the hole.
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There is probably not really any water left
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in here because
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the deal is turned off but anyway just in case
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almost
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there
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And theres the old diverter valve and the washer. Were also gonna look to make sure this little flat washer came with it
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take a peek inside there
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to make sure everything is out of there which it is
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prepare our new diverter valve
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theres our old one. You can see our new one has the same washer
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the same washers here
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and were going to want to finger tighten the sleeve and then we’re
gonna want to wrap teflon tape around there.
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Now you really don’t have to
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but I recommended it in that it will make it
easier to remove it
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in the future should you need to.
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And the best way to wrap teflon tape is like so, with the teflon tape at the back
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hold it on with your finger
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skip the first one or two threads
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to avoid cross threading
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if you need to twist it a little bit
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so that you can skip the first
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one or two threads you can do that
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and you are just going to go three or four turns around.
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Give it a nice coating of teflon.
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It’s kind of funny teflon
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pans are what we cook with, so, that shows you
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that it keeps the food and everything
from sticking against there
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same principle here makes it easier to
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remove in the future
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but it also
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fills in any regular gaps in the material. Undo our diverter valve all the way. You can see
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how it pushes this out.
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And this is why this is a compression style diverter valve. It has got a bibb washer here.
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You can rebuild these if you need to by replacing the bibb washer
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as well as
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replacing the sleeve
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washer that’s inside here
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That’s another story.
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I will have to make a video on that one someday. For now this
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is replacing the whole deal
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and these are almost cheap enough to replace the whole deal.
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Anyway, here goes. Insert it nice and easy
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and hand turn it in to
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avoid getting it cross threaded feel for it
to make sure everything is good there.
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Slip our deep socket
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over the top and tighten it up nice and tight. And go a quarter turn past tight.
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There we go.
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Nice and snug there.
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And now we are ready to test it for any leaks.
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So I am going to unclog my drain for a minute.
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And I am going to go ahead and turn the water on,
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and look inside there.
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And we are going to try to set it on the tub
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portion.
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So that it goes into the tub. So here goes.
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Everything is working like it should and we are going to look for any leaks inside there. And feel around inside there. It looks like we are good. No leaks there. Everything is working like it should. So now peaking in there, I’ll aim my shower head away, I am going to switch the diverter to the shower portion.
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That is to the shower portion and everything is working like it should.
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Switch it back to the tub.
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And we have no leaks there. So were good there.
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Resetting our faucet handle.
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We are just going to spin the sleeve back in till it
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tightens all the way up.
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And we want to make sure this sleeve tightens all the way down
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into the handle. And we’re good there.
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Than we can go ahead and tighten the escutcheon.
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and this is a good point to clean
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up our escutcheon here. And we are going to make sure the rest of our escutcheons
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are tightened up nice and good. So that everything seats against the tub enclosure.
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And than we’re ready to insert our handle.
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Tomorrow I am getting some
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new handles so this
handles not going to be the prettiest handle in the world.
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I will be replacing it tomorrow so no big deal here.
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Just going to show you how it is done. And than the diverter gets set down. That way
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when we turn on the water it’s showing that it is going down into the tub spout. And when we turn it up for the shower it’s showing that it is going up to the shower. That’s how to replace a diverter stem for a compression style fitting.
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Alright, got a pretty old unit well got a unit low on freon.
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You can see one of these
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energy
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uh…
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devices that turns off the AC on the front of the unit some of the electrical companies out here in California
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hook these up so they can turn the
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unit off at peak hours and than they pass on a little bit of uh… energy
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savings to you, give you a cheaper rate on your
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air conditioner. This one is actually
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mounted on the service door.
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Anyway I am gonna take this door off.
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And I have got a unit that is low on freon.
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It is not cooling so.
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At least not cooling very good anyway.
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Get into this and than
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I’ll go downstairs
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and turn the unit on
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Get the door here. Put this off to the side. There we go. Let’s see what is going on here.
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I am going to go ahead and get my
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gauges set up here.
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And than charge this up here.
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My gauges are not in the best shape especially the high side so I am just going to be charging it up through the low side today.
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It’s time for me to order some new gauges.
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Right here is our service line hook up.
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And what you want to do is make sure
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the valve is off
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up top here
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on the low side and the high side. Ok
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Now remove my schrader valve cap and listen for any kind of hissing.
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To indicate if there is a leak.
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And it seems Ok.
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And it’s got these quick connect fittings. You always want to use these quick connect fittings.
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You really want to wear gloves to but since i’m just going through the high
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side. Not so bad I mean I’m just going through the low side. It is not so bad on the low side.
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A little bit worse on the high side.
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Ok now that the
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line is hooked up there we want to make sure that we purge any air
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from the lines.
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And than I will go ahead and hook up the middle yellow line to our refrigerant can.
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Up top here.
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And again
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got a
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quick connect
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up here. You don’t need a quick connect up here on the
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middle line as much
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because you can turn the refrigerant off here.
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But anyway I have one on there so.
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And were going to open our can of refrigerant here.
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and this is R-22. Ok.
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Here we go and than purge our line here
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So I am just going to crack it.
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Let a little bit of refrigerant out. And now we are ready to charge it. So I am just going to open it for a second and than go down and turn the unit on so we can charge it.
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Yeah it feels like it is low so. Ok I am going to run downstairs.
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Be right back.
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Ok. So were on now. Everything is running good.
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The fan motor is running.
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The compressor has kicked on.
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And
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you can see this is showing like only ten pounds of pressure.
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Not too good.
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Definitely low on freon so.
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Oh yeah. Sounds thirsty. So I was working in this unit yesterday
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and noticed the air conditioner wasn’t cooling so I knew I needed to get up here today.
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Get up here early before it gets hot.
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Here is the accumulator and it is starting to get cold
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It is cold about half way up
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Anyway I am just going to be doing this one by feel
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Because like I said my gauges
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are kind of on their last leg.
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Time to replace them.
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See how loose that is I mean this could be tightend up but
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also the needles are kind of bent and the caps
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are starting to fall off
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so time for some new gauges
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but these are a cappilary tube system and
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the nice thing about a capillary tube system is
it is a lot more forgiving than other systems
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It can actually, you would have to actually really kind of try to
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overcharge these
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Anyway once it is nice and cold here on both sides of the accumulator than I know that it is going to be good. So I am just going to
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Wait until this flashes nice and ice cold.
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And like I said if I
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put a little bit of extra refrigerant in
it is going to be okay because it just holds it in the pot.
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And the way the capillary tube system works is
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It is a fixed orifice so
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It only allows so much refrigerant through at a time
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you know if you’re a little bit
overcharge it is not like it
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lets more refrigerant through.
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It just stores it here and lets it go through.
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As long as you are only charging
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with vapor.
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you don’t want to flip your can over and
charge it with liquid because than the liquid might
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stay in the lines
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and can actually cause liquid slugging of the compressor
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You can probably hear the refrigerant
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going into the system
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You can hear the change now as the pressures are starting to get
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balanced and get more closer to where they
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should you can
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hear the sound difference less and less
refrigerant is being
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suctioned in as it starts to climb.
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We definitely have a leak somewhere. Possibly here at the schrader valve.
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Which is where you usually get your leaks. You can kind of see some signs of moisture or oil right there. I am kind of guessing it is from the schrader valve. I will pop it off and take a peak inside the high side.
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You can hear the pressure difference now of the refrigerant going in is a lot less than when we first did this. And it doesn’t seem to be leaking from the schrader valve so I will go ahead and tighten that back on.
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What I have is a leak repair additive that I can add to the system because this one it has been good the whole summer. It hasn’t gone low on refrigerant or anything so it has just got a tiny micro leak in it somewhere. Those additives are kind of good for that as long as there is no moisture in the system. Ok and feeling my line it is still not cold. It is kind of warm. And we can check what our pressure is at here. I’ll try to get the camera to focus a little bit. There we go. We will go ahead and turn the hand valve off.
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See where were at. Were at about about 40 pounds pressure there
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and on the green dial were only at fifteen so
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we got a ways to go. You can probably hear it I am going to turn it back on.
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I hear a lot of people don’t like these Janitrolls to much, but
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they are pretty easy to work on. Pretty simple.
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Maybe I’ve just gotten used to them.
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Been out here for a while so.
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The kind of nice thing about only
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charging through the low side.
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If you are using the high side you can get
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more of an accurate
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reading of what your refrigerant levels are at
but the nice thing about only using
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the low side
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is it is actually
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going to release less freon
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into the air
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into the atmosphere
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when you purge the high side
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it lets a lot more freon out
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and you know the high side is your liquid side so when
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you disconnect your hose after your finished
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and you have to release that
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freon that is left in the hose
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all that liquid refrigerant is in there
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your having to release all that
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but this just going through the low side
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it’s releasing a little bit less freon. I am sure some people disagree with me on that but that is Ok.
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anyway when you work with refrigerant long enough you
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probably will reach some day where your
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gauges really are not working properly
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and you are going to need to be able to charge the unit by feel
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or by temperature
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and the other way we can check this is
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check for the fifteen to twenty degree split inside the unit at an incoming and an outgoing register.
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I have a video on that if you want to see that I can put the link on this video.
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Its starting to get there.
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It is starting to feel a little colder down here. Allright.
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Up on the roof top in
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Palm Springs here.
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Give you a little view around. Look around.
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While this thing charges up here.
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Pretty nice up on the
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palm trees here.
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My palm trees are due for some trimming.
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Got a lot of dates on them.
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Pretty good dates to.
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I have snacked on a few.
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If you look around you can see the mountains over there.
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Its a nice cooler day.
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It has actually cooled off out here now.
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This Summer was a little bit milder.
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I think the hottest it got was about one nineteen, something like that.
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I remember a few days where it was a hundred and sixteen. Those were pretty warm.
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but I have had other summers where it has hit as high as a hundred twenty seven degrees and
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so this Summer was pretty mild.
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I got away easy.
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I went through and well
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we preventative maintenanced
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the heck out of our air conditioning units to make it a better summer so. We had a much better summer.
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This can take some time.
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There is a couple ways to speed the charge.
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With the compressor being low on freon
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the freon helps cool
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the compressor and
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with the compressor being low on freon the compressor starts to get pretty warm.
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If you have an ice pack you can put that on top here and that can speed the charge. Or some really cold water so I have got some really cold water. And I am just going to pour it on here. Avoiding the electrical contacts obviously. And that helps speed the charge a little bit. Its starting to get there.
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Ok, once I am all finished I will have to follow this up with that leak additive. To seal of any leaks here.
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See this line down at the bottom of the compressor
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kind of funny
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it is actually a heater. It heats up the bottom of the compressor.
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And that helps it when it first starts to be in kind of the right condition for starting the compressor.
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Right here is a filter drier.
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You can see the arrow
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pointing this way.
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On a heat pump the arrow will point both ways because a heat pump has
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a reversing valve where it changes the direction
where as here the condensor is removing heat from the unit.
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and at the evaporator it absorbs heat. On a heat pump it can switch to where you know the
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evaporator was absorbing heat and the condensor giving off the heat
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on a heat pump it can switch back to where now the condensor becomes the evaporator
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And the evaporator becomes the condensor. They switch roles. So you can heat your unit with a heat pump or you can cool your unit. Heat pumps are a lot more sensitive about the charge.
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Your charge needs to be a lot more accurate where as like I was telling you these units have capillary tubes so they are a lot more forgiving. It’s getting there. Drink a little water myself.
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Give you another shot of Palm Springs here.
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The mountains there.
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There’s a tram that goes all the way to the top of the mountain up there. I guess there is like a cafe
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stuff like that.
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I’ve been out here like eight years
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I still haven’t been up there.
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Some day maybe.
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Or not
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A bird is snacking on some dates there. Happy campers. Alright see how we’re doing here. It’s getting there. It just takes a little time.
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This unit seems to be in pretty good condition
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for being twenty six years old. Still kicking. Still kicking out the cool air. Getting there.
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This is an accumulator
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it helps prevent liquid refrigerant from getting to the
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compressor and slugging the pistons.
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A lot of units these days don’t have these on them some of the heat pumps have them inside the unit.
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These ones have been done outside. It seems they went to
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some extra steps to preserve these units. This one doesn’t have it but on
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some of these other ones they have got a like another safety device this one has been taken out like on the high side it’s got a little piston in it as a protective shut off.
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See if one of the other units has it. I will show it to you here. This one no.
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bring you over here as this takes a little time. Wow all these units are gone.
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Looks like they took them out on this whole roof.
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Maybe I am not going to get to show you.
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Here is one. See right here this deal.
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Not exactly sure what you call this exactly.
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Maybe somebody else can tell me.
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And exactly how it work i’m not
sure either i think it has just like a
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piston that
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cuts off the flow if something’s
wrong. If there is something wrong in the
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system.
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Something a little bit more for me to learn about.
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There is always more.
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Anyway go back to our unit over there.
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You can see these service mats.
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You always want to do your
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refrigerant work,
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your air condition work, on the mats.
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Especially if you are changing a fan motor or putting in a new unit. You don’t want to put any chunks in the built up roof material. Anyway it is getting colder. Were not there yet.
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Disconnect box is over there.
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Kind of funny story I heard of some places
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where the disconnect
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they had people stealing all the units. They were stealing air conditioning units.
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Some rougher areas
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have to do some drastic methods but anyway.
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I heard about where they, what they did
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was they bypassed the disconnnect
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so that if you wanted to
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turn off power to work on the unit you would have to go into the unit itself and
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turn off the breaker.
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It is sort of like an electric fence
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I was thinking about it is kinda like having an electric fence
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a deterent for people stealing units, stealing refrigerant, and
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stealing the entire units.
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and by having the power where you can’t
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disconnect it
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they were less likely to take those
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and they were stealing the disconnects and all that kind of stuff too so
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there is some rougher areas out there that call for some
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drastic measures
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not not the norm
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but in those situations
23:55
people have to get creative.
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Have to do something different if there is a
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rough area. Alright it is getting nice and chilly now. Still got a little ways. Might put a little more water on the compressor here. Try and speed this up.
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I can feel it flash alot, you know, after I put the water on.
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And than I feel it right here. At the unit it just
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seems like all of a sudden it draws a lot
more refrigerant in.
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It’s starting to flash nice and cold now. We are almost there.
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Now I don’t know if you can see it so much in the camera but you can start to see
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a little bit of sweat on
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on the line.
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As this gets colder. Not completely there yet but we’re real close. This is the little high side line to the compressor.
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You want to avoid
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touching that especially on that end.
25:56
I mean back here
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this part of it it is not so hot.
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But right there it is really hot. I have burned my arm lots of times by accident. Touch that aghhh tshhh. Looks like not the best soldering job down there but definetely not the worst I’ve seen.
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This kind of looks like a newer compressor to like this isn’t the original
26:30
compressor. I’m just guessing. Like it was replaced at some point. Augh yeah we’re getting nice and chilly.
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Chilly, Chilli.
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The final test again is going to be checking for the fifteen to twenty degree split inside.
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But it’s gonna happen. I have done enough of these to know
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the way it is. Were good now. Nice and chilly.
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Can’t trust my gauges. They are just too old. I gotta get some new gauge heads. See how it is showing
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twenty five
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on the green dial.
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Fifty on the pressure. Nice and cool today. Man, what a difference it makes. I think it is supposed to be like a high of 81 today, 85, I am not too sure, but it is nice now. Probably about seventy six degrees outside. If feels good. Nice day.
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Ok, we are there now. Nice and chilly. So I am going to go ahead and turn off the line here. And than disconnect the line. Listen for any leaks there. And everything is Ok. And than
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make sure we put our schrader valve cap back on.
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That is like our second gate to keep the refrigerant in the system. I like to do them a quarter turn past tight with my pliers. Not to crazy, just crazy enough. So there we go.
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We’re good there. Come up here,
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and turn our refrigerant can off.
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Disconnect our hoses.
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Than we have to release the refrigerant
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from the line. We don’t want to leave it
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stored in there. Unless I was going to go and charge another unit right away which I am
30:57
not.
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So I am just going to go ahead and release it. There we go, and now its out. That one too. The middle one also.
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Like I said if we had the high side hooked up than when we
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release it you would
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see it just shhh
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spraying out like a white mist come out
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a lot more refrigerant gets trapped
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in that line.
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And that’s kind of the advantage in only hooking up the high side (I meant low side).
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really the more accurate method is to hook up the high side but anyway.
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We are good here. Alright.
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31:45
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Ok so here it is inside the unit. It has already dropped to
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seventy five
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I think that it started around seventy eight seventy nine.
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Something like that.
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And the air feels nice and cool coming out of the vent. Lets go back here to
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where the evaporator is. The air handler right here.
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And just like on the roof, the low side should be nice and chilly all the way to right here.
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And it is. Nice and chilly.
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You can see it. You can kind of see it starting to sweat. You can see on my finger. For a second
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how it’s like moisture.
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So that is why we have got the insulation here.
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So oh it’s nice and chilly.Perfect see it there the moisture on my finger. There we go. We got our condenstae drain. The drain vent
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Right here alright. Good old hydronic supply lines.
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Good to go.
00:16 okay today I’m going to be showing you how to secure
00:21 a loose surface range element
00:23 a loose surface range element right here what it should have is a set screw
00:27 underneath
00:30 as you can see this one is just floating around freely
00:31 and that’s not good.
00:33 this ones missing the screw I was able to find
00:36 another one that I had salvaged from another unit
00:40 anyway, this one just screws in here
00:45 in the little screw port here
00:46 and once you get the screw started,
00:49 you can see the two teeth there
00:51 just get anchored up and underneath
00:57 right here
00:58 and than tightened down
01:03 like so
01:05 you can also use a nut driver but this is where a six in one comes in real handy so you can
01:10 get in there
01:11 and tighten it down. The next trick with
01:15 these is to make sure that the range pan
01:18 goes below.
01:21 You can see here the ring goes on top
01:23 and the pan goes below.
01:26 Sometimes these are a little tricky to set
01:28 doesn’t want to sit down so I was able to set that one down a little bit better.
01:33 Slip the pan underneath first, and than the ring on top.
01:41 Like so.
01:42 And we’re all set there.
01:47 Again that can look a little bit better.
01:49 Let me
01:52 lower this down
01:54 just a tiny bit.
01:57 Sometimes you will have one of these that is a little bit stubborn to get it to seat nice and flush.
02:11 There we go now that is nice and flush.
02:13 Good to go anyway that is how to secure a loose
02:16 range element. Now this will still move around a little bit
02:20 which is ok, but at least it is anchored in there.
02:23 and behaving the way that it should.
02:25 Ready to go.
00:13 Today I want to discuss the seven most likely places that you will get a leak
00:17 in a tub or
00:18 shower enclosure.
00:20 First point and the most often occurring is a leak from the hot or the cold side.
00:25 Sometimes it will show up outside the handle here but not always.
00:31 Sometimes you have to remove the trim here. Just by spinning it out.
00:38 And what you can do is put a piece of paper behind there. To see if you are getting any dripping out at the paper here. Just to prove that that is not the source of your leak. And of course you have your hot and the cold side to do the same thing.
01:00 So the next most often source of a leak is from
01:02 the diverter valve
01:03 it is usually your center valve
01:05 on this particular setup. You know each particular faucet is just a little bit different
01:09 but this is the second most likely source
01:11 of a leak and the same thing pulling the paper out
01:14 you can put your paper behind there
01:17 again most often you’ll see it at the handle you will see a bunch of water
01:21 deposits and corrosion inside
01:22 the handle
01:24 but what you want to do is turn your water on and turn it back and forth between the tub setting
01:28 the shower setting
01:30 and having your piece of paper in there to divert any possible water
01:34 into the tub to prove that.
01:38 The third most often source of a leak
01:40 is up here
01:41 at the shower neck
01:44 behind here
01:46 most often if this does leak
01:49 it will leak into
01:50 the enclosure area
01:52 as you can see this has an escuteon and a nut
01:54 collar nut that holds it in place
01:57 and the insert is here
01:59 most often if it is a leak it is pretty easily repaired by
02:03 unthreading the shower neck and
02:06 adding teflon tape to the threads
02:08 going with the direction of the threads and reinserting.
02:13 That is the third
02:14 most often source of a leak
02:18 Fourth source of a leak
02:20 sometimes it is from
02:21 the tub spout itself
02:23 some of these are pushed on some of them are threaded on mine are usually threaded on it is a half inch thread
02:29 that goes in here
02:31 there’s also some types that are pushed on and than there is also a little alan key underneath
02:36 that holds the
02:37 spout on also some have a flat head screw
02:40 that holds the tub spout on
02:42 this is you usually checked
02:44 by reaching down inside here it is not always that easy but by putting some pressure here
02:48 and either putting a piece of paper or something underneath there while
02:52 running the tub
02:55 to prove if that’s leaking.
02:56 The fifth cause of a leak can be the drain itself.
02:59 What you want to do is fill up the water.
03:01 Plug your toe stop and than you are going to check it from below depending on where you are getting your leak.
03:07 Where you are having water show up.
03:11 If you are having it show up on the floor outside than
03:12 this is a good way to check it.
03:15 You can also
03:17 pour just a tiny bit
03:18 of water by hand
03:19 around the side here
03:21 to make sure.
03:23 I think this one is holding the little bit of water that is here.
03:26 So there is no leak here.
03:29 Anyway filling it up and checking that would be
03:33 your fifth source of a leak.
03:36 Sixth could be any kind of a crack
03:38 or a break
03:39 in the
03:40 floor in the tub floor again less, getting into the less often occurring
03:46 leaks, but, any little break
03:52 in the material in the fiberglass this is a fiberglass tub, depending on what type of material you have
03:56 And the seventh source of a leak here is from the tub
03:58 overflow gasket there is a donut gasket that goes behind here
04:03 again less likely occuring but it does happen
04:06 the way you would check this would be to go ahead and fill up your tub with water
04:11 let the water go here and seeing if the water is showing up
04:13 where you were having the leak.
04:18 Anyway that is the seven most likely points that can leak.
04:21 Little bit about how to repair them.
04:23 Usually with this tub overflow gasket
04:25 you just pull out the center screw here
04:29 and then
04:30 remove the donut gasket there is a donut gasket that squeezes in
04:33 remove that and than replace it with a new one.
04:36 Tighten down your screw real good. You are good to go.
04:38 Anyway that is the seven
04:40 most likely
04:42 sources of leaks.
00:13 Ok, today I wanted to show you the five most common problems with vanity faucets such as the
00:18 one you see here
00:20 one of the most often problems is a leak from the handle. Now if you are seeing a leak
00:25 from the top of the handle
00:27 I am going to take this off just to show you.
00:30 taking this sort of pretaking this apart with a flat blade knife and than pull the screw out
00:34 just to make it faster. If it is leaking from the handle it’s usually an O ring
00:39 inside the top of the cartridge here
00:43 That’s one problem.
00:44 The next problem is if you have a leak from the spout. If you have a leak from the spout it’s
00:48 often the bibb washer underneath here.
00:51 and that bibb washer needs to be replaced.
00:54 Now one nice upgrade you can do is to use
00:57 a ceramic disc cartridge
00:58 which this one has already been done. Converted to a ceramic disc cartridge.
01:04 It’s kind of nice in that it doesn’t have the same squeezing affect as a bibb washer.
01:08 But anyway the most often cause of
01:10 a dripping tap is from the bibb washer.
01:15 The third most common problem with
01:17 vanity faucets is low flow or taking a long time to heat
01:22 and what that most often is is a aerator. Now it doesn’t always appear so, you
01:28 don’t always see the low flow
01:30 but a lot of times that’s the cause
01:33 first thing to check when you are having
01:35 it take a long time to get hot
01:37 or
01:38 you’re seeing low flow at your tap
01:40 is to change the aerator.
01:43 Fourth most common problem with
01:46 vanity faucets is a leak from the supply line
01:49 so looking down underneath here
01:52 what you want to do is check it at all your
01:55 fitting connections and feel for any leaks
01:58 at all the
02:00 connection points and
02:01 that way make sure that your supply line is not leaking.
02:05 And the fifth most common source of trouble spots
02:08 for the vanity faucet is the angle stop itself
02:11 so you want to feel in between
02:15 inbetween there at all of the fitting connections
02:19 you can see there’s a nut here that tightens down here sometimes this can be tightened
02:23 you want to use two wrenches
02:25 if you have got a leak there. And that is the five most common problems with vanity faucets.
00:13 Ok, today I am going to be discussing with you the five most common problems with
00:17 refrigerators.
00:18 Number one is a stuck fridge fan. When you open your fridge and it is in it’s run cycle you should hear the sound like you are hearing now, the fan motor spinning, sometimes what happens is the fan blades get stuck against the side or the fan blade itself goes so far back that it seats against the motor and than the blades get stuck and don’t turn
00:42 second most common problems with refrigerators is drips from the ceiling
00:47 now if it’s just small drips it can be caused by food put in that’s hot like
00:51 boiling or something that had boiled
00:54 and than set in the fridge without a cover on it, the way to eliminate that is
00:58 to keep a cover on your food
01:00 but if your seeing excessive drips
01:02 from the inside center here
01:04 then it may indicate
01:06 that you have a clogged condensate drain
01:09 which is a very common problem with refrigerators
01:11 The third most common problem with refrigerators is the compressor not
01:15 running.
01:15 If you listen
01:17
back here you can kind of hear the hum of
the compressor. So if you don’t hear that
01:20 sound
01:22 that low humming sound
01:24 that’s different from the fan going than
01:28 your starter may need to be replaced on the compressor.
01:31 The fourth most common problem with refrigerators is torn gaskets the way that
01:35 you prevent that from happening is to clean the gaskets here often
01:39 and to clean
01:40 the fridge surface here often
01:43 where it mates because what happens is sticky foods stick in there and than
01:47 pulling apart from the gasket
01:49 eventually can tear the gasket wear out the gasket so that’s the way to
01:54 kind of prevent it. Each
01:55 door manufacturer is different
01:57 so you might have to consult your directions on how to replace your gasket
02:01 some of them will have screws along the inside portion here
02:05 of the gasket in order to change it
02:07 others will have a press in place groove that the gasket
02:11 gets pressed into
02:12 others the entire door portion will pull apart so that you can
02:16 replace the gasket so each kind
02:18 is just slightly different.
02:20 And the fifth most common problem with refrigerators is being off balance
02:24 what you want is for when you let your fridge door go
02:28 you want it to just close
02:30 nice and gently
02:31 and close all the way
02:33 you want the fridge to aim towards the back just a tiny bit so that condensate
02:36 goes down and stays along the back of the fridge and settles into the pan
02:41 that’s on the back on the top of the compressor
02:44 usually but anyway you want your fridge to angle towards the back just a tiny bit
02:48 if your fridge is off balance
02:50 there is usually an adjustment screw here
02:52 or some fridges have a wheel that is turned here
02:55 this ones got a wheel that’s turned
02:57 as you can see one on each side
02:59 and these can be adjusted
03:02 just by lifting up a little bit
03:03 on the fridge and than turning this either by hand
03:05 or with channel locks. So that’s the five most common problems with refrigerators.
00:08 OK today, I am going to be showing you the
00:09 five most common problems with vertical blinds
00:13 one of the most common problems
00:16 is simply a blind slat being out of step
00:19 something as simple as this
00:21 where it is just going to hang up
00:22 and now your blinds are not going to turn and open up so first thing is your going to want to
00:27 go along and make sure
00:29 that all of your blinds are in a row and
00:32 that’s one of the most common problems.
00:35 Another most common problem is a
00:38 broken blind slat itself
00:39 often they will break off right here
00:42 and
00:43 what you can do is flip your blind slat over
00:46 and use a hole punch and punch some new holes
00:48 and than re hang it up. If you want to you can trim it off straight or you can get
00:52 replacement slats and trim them down. I have a video on
00:57 those repairs, video on that repair and I will try to put the link on this video so you can click over to it.
01:02 The Third most often repair that’s needed
01:05 is a stripped master gear now as I
showed you if one of the deals was hanging up or the blinds
01:09 were hanging up
01:10 and someone continued to try to force it
01:14 it can strip the master gear
01:16 And there is a couple of different types of
master gears this one is a
01:19 self aligning master gear
01:21 it links underneath the first slat
01:25 this one you can take out these screws
and link it to the first carrier
01:30 I’ve got a video on that also so I will try to put the link on here.
01:35 Fourth most common type of repair that is needed
01:36 is where you have an individual blind that is not turning
01:39 all the other ones are turning just fine
01:42 and that one individual
01:43 blind is not turning
01:46 what’s needed is either the
01:48 head the uh… the gear here
01:50 has got some broken teeth on it
01:52 or the comb gear itself
01:55 has broken off
01:56 and these can be replaced.
01:58 I also have a video on that
02:00 I will put the link on this video it is for the stem
02:03 and comb gear.
02:05 And the Fifth most common problem with
02:07 vertical blinds
02:08 is that the blinds are hard to open. Now, this one is not so bad, it slides pretty easy, but if you had a set that was hard to open
02:18 what you want to do is lube it with silicone spray.
02:20 Apply it to the entire length inside the track.
02:24 And it is not the best smelling stuff in the world but it really does a good job in lubing the blinds
02:29 because what it does silicone lube dries
02:32 and it still maintains its lubricant qualities
02:35 and because it dries it is not going to collect as much dust and dirt and debris
02:39 and than clog up. Anyway once you put it on go ahead and work the blinds in
02:47 and you are good to go.
02:49 And that is the five most common problems with vertical blinds.
02:52 There’s a few others.
02:53 I will try to add them on later but
02:56 that’s about the five most common.
00:10 Welcome to the Kung Fu Maintenance dashboard!
00:12 Today I’m going to be showing you well, one-way
00:16 you might improve your english if your learning
00:20 reading, writing, understanding
00:21 improving
00:23 pronunciation, dialogue, all those types of things
00:25 what i have here is using the closed captions feature inside
00:29 youtube
00:30 I haven’t done it to all my videos
00:32 I’ve made a start here in doing this
00:35 and in translating
00:36 I’ll maximize it
00:40 what it does down at the bottom is it has got these captions
00:44 as long as you select that.
00:46 Now let me show you how to do that. Down at the very bottom
00:50 click on this little “cc” button right here
00:54 and that turns on the captions
00:56 and now you click on the captions button
00:59 and you can bring up your language so let us say spanish, russian, portuguese
01:04 japanese, italian, german, french,
01:07 chinese, arabic
01:08 I’d like to add more languages little by little. If you don’t see your
01:12 language here please just put a comment on this video requesting
01:15 your language and
01:17 I’ll consider adding it if it’s possible for me to do it. Also little by little I
01:21 may need help with translations so
01:24 if you’re interested in
01:25 translating or proofing translations you can also put a
01:28 message on here. I am going to be doing a lot of videos and
transffering them over
01:32 also sometimes the translations may not be that good
01:36 so let us
01:37 see on this one today I wanted to go over the five most common problems with washing machines
01:41 converted it to spanish
01:43 and it says it in spanish. Now i’m not sure how accurate that is
01:47 you’ll have to tell me
01:50 I poquitho(Spanish for tiny) know only a tiny
01:51 bit of Spanish
01:54 not enough to translate this but i am trying to learn, I like to learn
01:58 different languages it’s just kind of something I have been studying
02:00 anyway
02:01 anyway here it is in Arabic and
02:05 here it is in Chinese
02:07 so anyway you if you wanted to improve your
02:09 English
02:10 this would be one way
02:12 you can have the subtitles in your own language and than
02:17 watch the video
02:18 and you will get to kind of learn
02:20 two things, well a few things. You will get to learn how to fix stuff as well as
02:26 learn a different language so hopefully that is helpful to you
02:30 uh… one more thing here
02:33 Let me pause the video here
02:36 and go over to my
02:38 blog site The KFM Blog
02:41 now you can get here
02:42 by going to my channel
02:44 I just clicked on my channel here the
KungFuMaintenance channel and i’ve
02:48 got a link here to the blog The KFM Blog
02:52 now on the blog
02:53 I’ve got all these different blogs and I have started putting the translations
02:57 from the
02:57 the youtube videos below each
03:00 video blog so
03:02 for instance this one is all translated
and it’s got the time segments so that you can
03:07 translate it over easier but the
03:09 thing that is really neat about this
03:12 about my site here
03:14 is that you can go down
03:15 to the translator and you can actually translate
in into your language so
03:21 if you wanted to see it in a different language
for instance let us say you understand Hebrew
03:24 really good but you don’t understand English so well
03:27 than you can
03:28 click over
03:29 and change it into Hebrew
03:31 than you can read the articles in Hebrew
03:33 and watch the video
03:34 to go along with it so
03:37 little by little I am going to be adding more and more to this
03:40 again you are probably going to see some errors so
03:43 you have to take it with a
03:46 grain of salt here but
03:47 little by little I am going to have to add this and edit and fix
03:51 different problems there may be some humorous stuff
03:54 I’ve actually had some pretty humorous things
happen with the translation
03:58 hopefully uh… nothing offensive in there with the translation please forgive me if
04:03 there is, it’s not me I don’t translate this i don’t know
04:06 these languages I don’t know hot to speak Finish or German
04:09 I do try to learn
04:11 things a little bit but I’m a far ways from actually understanding those things
04:16 so anyway I hope that helps if you’re
04:18 out there wanting to learn english as well
as pick up some maintenance skills
04:22 along the way this is kind of a nice way to
learn
04:25 a few things at the same time so i hope
you like, favorite, and subscribe
04:29 and if you
04:31 feel up for it there is a donate button
here that helps me do what I do
04:35 Let me try to get this back
04:38 to English here let’s see here we go
04:41 and now it is going to translate it back into
English so
04:44 also got a link to my book
04:46 on the blog here
04:49 and got the donate button where you can
04:51 buy me a cup of coffee
04:52 which would be great
04:53 helps me do what I do and put a
04:56 little energy behind it
04:57 kick start me on the next blog
04:59 or on the next video
05:01 anyway I hope the videos help
05:03 hope you like this video hope it helps some of you out there. Thanks for watching!
00:14 OK today I wanted to go over the five most common problems with washing
00:18 machines with you
00:19 the number one
00:20 most often problem with washing
00:22 machines is a washing machine that doesn’t
drain or spin
00:26 most often caused by a broken lid switch
00:29 you should hear a click
00:31 as this goes into place
00:34 If you don’t hear that click then your
00:37 or if your washing machine is not going into its final cycles
00:41 it’s most often this lid switch here
00:45 sometimes you can just press on this right side
00:48 and get it to engage the switch also occasionally you can just adjust the post a little bit
00:53
uh… so that the post will stick further
into the switch which will engage the switch also
00:57 sometimes you can just adjust the switch or tighten it up
01:01 often it needs to be replaced I have a video on that
01:05 second most often problem with
01:08 washing machines often goes undetected
01:10 something you’d probably want to check regularly is that your agitator
01:14 dogs are working properly
01:16 what it should do is turn the bottom one-way or the other so
01:21 this one is turning it like it should
01:23 and the agitator dogs are functioning now if it’s
not doing that than your clothes are just getting rinsed
01:28 they are not really getting washed
01:29 it is an often missed
01:32 problem with washing machines
01:33 and its probably very common because the agitator dogs inside here are
01:38 designed to break if someone’s arm was to get stuck in here or if something
01:43 was to bind up too much the agitator dogs will actually strip on purpose as a safety mechanism
01:50
third most common problem with washing
machines is
01:53 a clogged pump
01:55 at the impeller
01:56
sometimes a penny or a button or
01:59
something else, a bobby pin
02:01 whatever goes down the drain line and gets stuck at the pump. Fourth most common
02:05 problem
02:06 is a leak. Most often leaks occur
02:09 up on the left side. Fifth most common problem is a washing machine out of
02:13 balance. Now the most often cause of the machine being out of balance
02:18 is just a matter of redistributing the clothes. Usually a towel or
02:22 something gets on one side and you hear the whump whump whump whump of
02:25 the machine
02:26 what you need to do is open the lid
02:28 and than go ahead and readjust the clothing or go ahead and readjust the towel
02:32 uh… readjust the items in the bin to get a more balanced
02:36 and then go ahead and run it again see if it
02:38 works out and you have no more
02:40 out of balance deal sometimes you could lose a spring most often times it’s just that the
02:46 machines out of balance
02:47 eventually I’ll have to make you a video showing you how to reset the spring
if it did come off
02:51 there is three different shocks and then
there is a spring
02:54 that holds the machine basin in place
02:57 now the way to check if your machine is still in balance is just ahead and run it
03:01 empty with water
03:02 let the water fill up
03:04 if the machine finds its balance than you know it was just a matter of the clothes
03:08 or the laundry items
03:09 being out of balance
03:12 anyway that is the five most common problems with washing machines
00:10 ok
00:15 just wanted to through a bunch of things today
00:18 on dishwashers
00:22 If you ever see water coming from right here running down
00:27 you can see like a calcium deposit or you see water dripping from that side
00:32 usually what it is is a stuck float switch
00:35 now these float switches on this particular model
00:40 have a little phillips screw back here that comes off
00:43 And it is usually just soap scum, soap scum just builds up inside there
00:49 and it will look a lot worse than it actually is but it is actually just soap residue left behind
00:54 So let me show you here I’m not sure, this one is not leaking like I was saying but
01:01 oh yeah, you can see all the soap residue inside there well this
01:07 little cup floats up as the water fills and engages this little switch here releases that
01:15 little switch and that’s how the water knows
01:17 well that’s how the dishwasher you know is told to shut the water off
01:23 so anyway we gotta clean all this stuff out here
01:27 and that is how you fix that problem
01:30 So I’m gonna clean this one all out since I am turning the unit
01:34 that way
01:36 when someone moves in
01:38 they don’t have a surprise the first time they use the dishwasher
01:42 Up here on the dishwasher this is your air gap
01:46 now if you ever see water
01:48 spit out of this air gap
01:51 it’s an indication
01:52 of the garbage disposal drain line
01:55 being clogged from the dishwasher air gap
02:00 under here you can see this line going into the garbage disposal, this is
02:05 our disposal to drain line and this gets built up with gunk and food so you got to
02:09 undo the clamp here and clear this line out or replace the line
02:14 one of the two of and for stubborn ones you can hook it up
02:18 a hose bibb and just flush it out, clean it out
02:22 there’s another way to do it also where you can take a brush
02:25 and run it down
02:27 inside here
02:28 remove this cap here
02:31 Now if your dishwasher wasn’t draining
02:33 that would be a good time to check inside this cap also
02:37 often there is a
02:41 set this down so I can get my other hand on it
02:42 anyways you just squeeze these two clips in and than just pull the cap right out
kept
02:47 I don’t know if you saw that but there is like a chicken bone down there
02:51 sometimes if you’re disposal drain is not draining
02:55 it’s time to check this here
02:59 and
03:01 in order to get that chicken bone to float back up what I’m gonna try and do is dump some water down inside there and see if it will float up to the top for me
03:11 sometimes it will float right up when the line is filled
03:15 If it’s light enough, I’ve seen it with pieces of plastic and such
03:20 It’s full now
03:26 but nope it’s not going to float up there for me but if it was like a plastic toothpick
03:42 or something like that sometimes you can get it to float up so what I will have to do is just run this through the drain cycle for just a second and its gonna shoot water up and all but I’ve got to shoot that out of there
03:55 anyway I will come back to that later I just wanted to show you guys a bunch of stuff
03:58 with dishwashers
04:00 Sometimes these
04:02 the spring for this gets
04:04 broken off, often they come off
04:07 and you can separate the two halves of the door and than reset the spring, it’s a little
04:10 tricky but you just gotta get a place, to find, to reset that spring latch
04:15 to
04:17 sometimes it takes a little bit of an adjustment to get it, let’s see
04:24 this one’s working ok, well it is not very strong so this one looks like possibly
04:29 the spring has come off
04:31 because it should
04:33 only open automatically when it gets to the right point
04:37 yeah this one is
04:38 definitely broken so that needs to be reworked
04:42 to reset the spring
04:45 What else can I show you?
04:47 Sometimes
04:48 the impeller will get stuck
04:52 dishwashers, there is four screws that hold the bottom trim plate on
04:56 and each type of impeller is a little bit different
04:59 this particular model has like
05:02 a fan connected to it and you can just turn the
05:05 fan blades to unstick the impeller
05:08 Let me remove these four screws. Other kinds you will have to use like a screwdriver
05:13 like two screwdrivers and kind of wedge it against the
05:17 motor impeller in order to un stick the impeller
05:21 You just kind of keep turning it until it gives
05:23 You’ll feel it be like really tough for a bit
05:25 and than all of a sudden it will move really easy
05:29 This is probably going to be a little nasty
05:30 in here
05:36 got our sound insulation here
05:38 keeping the noise out
05:41 the impeller
05:42 if you had turned the
05:45 dishwasher on and you hear like a humming but it’s not kicking on that’s
05:49 usually your impeller stuck
05:51 make sure you turn the power off
05:53 and than
05:54 reach right back here and I don’t know if you can really see it that well but let me see if I can get my
06:00 flashlight going here to give you guys a lookie loo
06:09 put you inside there
06:11 a little bit and
06:15 I don’t know if you can see the fan blades
06:17 there but I’m going to turn them with my other hand
06:23 anyway sometimes if they were like really hard to turn at first
06:26 and than it will just give and it will spin freely
06:28 It should spin nice and freely and that is how you can unstick those if it was stuck
06:33 other kinds you’ll see the impeller shaft
06:37 right here and you’ll be able to turn it
06:43 anyway that is a little bit about dishwashers there
06:45 some of the most common things you will come across maintenance wise
