CBHVAC: you were right
Jacob Suter
I got in a pretty serious wreck yesterday in my nissan frontier (FUCK! I
actually liked that damned thing) and now I can't actually go sleep on my
own bed since its upstairs and its like 95F in my bedroom at the moment.
I'm sore as hell and I get to sleep on the couch - bleh.
lost the freon in the system. Hoping I can get an AC guy out here to check
it out today to fix the damned thing. Luckily this house has two units so
I'm not completly SOL.
http://toybox.intrastar.net/~jsuter/ has aftermath pictures of the nissan...
everyone walked away...
No complaints - I estimate the impact speed was somewhere around 35-40 mph.
oh well... time for me to go enjoy sleeping on the couch *GRUMBLE*
JS
Tom Lawrence
Yep - I had my sister's unit go up in smoke (literally) the other day... the
compressor wasn't running - throughout the course of troubleshooting, we
found one of the power leads that had burnt up inside a wire nut.
Suspecting just a bad connection at the nut, we cut, re-stripped, and
re-connected the line. Put everything back together, flip the switch - POP.
Circuit breaker. Hmmm.... turn the controls off, reset breaker, turn on
controls. Bzzzzzz.... FOOFT! Big puff of smoke from the compressor motor.
Oh well... guess I know why the wiring burnt in the first place, huh? :)
> http://toybox.intrastar.net/~jsuter/ has aftermath pictures of the
nissan...
> everyone walked away...
Glad to hear everyone was OK.
Looked like a nice frontal-offset crash. Now... how come your truck looks
a WHOLE lot better than the same vehicle that the IIHS crashed the same way,
and at approximately the same speed?
CBHVAC
replaced..people cant.
AS far as being out of 22....if he adds some....MAKE DAMN SURE he looks for
the reason WHY you lost it. Could be a simple 2 cent schrader valve..might
be a broken weld...but dont let him charge it and walk away with 100+ bux.
--
www.carolinabreezehvac.com
"Jacob Suter" <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote in message
news:R1iY6.4647$%L5.58418@insync...
CBHVAC
happen one time and its a sight let me tell you..:)
Hope it was under warranty..if not, have her get a few quotes on a new
unit...might be able to get a new complete higher SEER for a few hundred
higher...
Guys in this biz LOVE compressor swap outs...profit is SO good.
Also..make sure that if she gets a new compressor, they put a liquid line
dryer/filter on the liquid line....it will filter any mess left int he
lines...and they need to put in some Acid Away...when the windings short
like that..it can make a mess in the lineset...
--
www.carolinabreezehvac.com
"Tom Lawrence" <tlawr...@eNaOrtShPlAiMnMk.InNeGt> wrote in message
news:s7mY6.192$mc2....@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
Diesel Power
Bryan
--
1976 AMC Hornet (project)
1981 Datsun King Cab Pickup 2.2 L diesel
1983 Volkswagen Rabbit 1.6 L turbodiesel (project)
1988.5 Suzuki Samurai Hardtop
1999 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins 24 Valve Turbodiesel
"Jacob Suter" <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote in message
news:R1iY6.4647$%L5.58418@insync...
Mark Jackson
object that does not give (brick wall treatment). If you were to crash the
same vehicle into another vehicle (newer ones that are designed with crumple
zones) the other vehicle absorbs some of the shock and gives in the
collision which in turn lessens the amount of damage.
I think
ho...@nospamextremejeep.com
> I think that may be because the IIHS crash test vehicles into a strong solid
> object that does not give (brick wall treatment). If you were to crash the
> same vehicle into another vehicle (newer ones that are designed with crumple
> zones) the other vehicle absorbs some of the shock and gives in the
> collision which in turn lessens the amount of damage.
It doesn't lessen the damage, it absorbs as much of the impact energy as
it can so less is transferred to the passenger compartment to reduce
injuries.
--
--
Hogan Whittall
'82 CJ-7, GM 3.8 V6, 4.10s, D300, T5, blah blah
'98 XJ Classic - BFG MTs, RS9ks
__________________________________________________________________
This is formal notice under California Assembly Bill 1629, enacted
9/26/98 that any UCE sent to my email address will be billed $50
per incident to the legally allowed maximum of $25,000.
__________________________________________________________________
KenSimms
Ouch!!!!!
Glad everyone is OK.
Ken
Jacob Suter <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote in message
news:R1iY6.4647$%L5.58418@insync...
Tom Lawrence
solid
> object that does not give (brick wall treatment).
I thought they slammed it into an aluminum "block" to kind-of sort-of
simulate another vehicle. Not sure - I think the whole thing's a scam,
anyway. Just another justification to raise insurance rates. You buy a
big, safe vehicle - you're penalized for driving a vehicle that injures
other vehicles too much. You buy a little vehicle, you're penalized because
they perform poorly in crashes.
Tom Lawrence
Hell no :)
> if not, have her get a few quotes on a new
> unit...might be able to get a new complete higher SEER for a few hundred
> higher...
We had a new unit put in - higher efficiency (nothing to brag about - only
10.5 SEER - but the old one was a 7.5, so I guess we're a little ahead of
the game :)
> Also..make sure that if she gets a new compressor, they put a liquid line
> dryer/filter on the liquid line....
Yep - it's on there.
Budd Cochran
--
Mr D-150
Budd Cochran
79 Dodge D-150
52 Cushman RoadKing Motorscooter
"Jacob Suter" <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote in message
news:R1iY6.4647$%L5.58418@insync...
Plainsman
Frontier got 5 stars for head on crashes.
"Jacob Suter" <jsu...@intrastar.net> wrote in message
news:R1iY6.4647$%L5.58418@insync...