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Mrs. Rumps calls me while I'm getting off graveyard shift this morning and says the A/C isn't cooling. As I'm driving home, I am imagining the worst. Compressor crapped out, the condenser isn't running, or the coils are screwed up.

I get home and take the access panels off to get a look at the capacitors. Everything seems fine there. Then I put my hand on the compressor and its hotter than trev's husband after a bad night at poker. I can't see any visible leaks, so I cut the main power so the fan would shut off. I walk back to the unit and can hear a hissing sound...





The suction pipe going to the compressor has a perfectly shaped pin hole on it. The rest of the pipe looks have good integrity. That is weird. I wonder if that 45 degree turn on the pipe caused a hammering effect and just ate its way through over time. But usually you'd find that type of issue at 90s on discharge piping. This has me scratching my head.

Oh, and I could probably use a new drier filter.

Looks like with your intensive preventative maintenance program you have going on as evidenced by the condition of that filter, and the amount of loose debris floating around, probably did not have any kind of problem with the heat exchangers not functioning right,and causing other components to fail.

Mix in an air hose once or twice a year.

I'll bet that goofy epoxy car-radiator-patch-it-goo might fix the hole.

Worth a shot.

I was expecting more like wrap a square head deck screw in plumber's Teflon® tape and patch it up. But radiator stop leak might do it.

Go Coogs' wrote: Then I put my hand on the compressor and its hotter than trev's husband's poker.

I'll being enjoying that this weekend, while your all shriveled up next to a sweaty fat gal.

trev wrote:

Go Coogs' wrote: Then I put my hand on the compressor and its hotter than trev's husband's poker.

I'll being enjoying that this weekend, while your all shriveled up next to a sweaty fat gal.

You do realize what he said means he is putting his hand on your husbands poker right ?

Yes. He needs to step off. :wink:

Go Coogs' wrote:Mrs. Rumps calls me while I'm getting off

Whew. I was worried this PET was going in a different direction.

Go Coogs' wrote:
The suction pipe going to the compressor has a perfectly shaped pin hole on it.

Define "perfectly shaped."

Very strange, though. Looks like something ate through it from the outside.

Have you been dripping anything alkaline, like chlorine, into your condenser enclosure?
Is the insulation intact on all those wires?
Any lightning strikes?

Rats?

Bingo, 88.

The wires were touching the pipe and over time the vibration of the compressor/fan caused the wires to rub against the pipe essentially wearing through the coating of one of the wires and creating an arc and burning a hole in the pipe.

York makes great chillers/refrigeration units commercially, but I've heard they are a shitty product on the residential side. The A/C repair man said this sort of thing happens more than you think. He says installers don't typically take the access panel off to make sure external objects secured away from the suction or discharge piping. I think it's retarded they have the pipe padded/insulated all the way to and from the compressor to the exchanger up in the attic, but don't insulate the piping inside the unit.

And yes, Derron, I didn't get the unit serviced once and now I am paying the price. In all honesty I was going to get it serviced this spring, because Mrs. Rumps and I were thinking about moving this summer. I just never got around to it.

Mikey wrote:
Is the insulation intact on all those wires?

Just sayin'...

How the fukk did anyone ever live in the Houston area before AC?

I ask that about Fort Myers. I love it here, but realize the reality of needing a good AC system and also my swimming pool. We get our yard.outdoor work done early in the day or later when the sun is setting.

smackaholic wrote:How the fukk did anyone ever live in the Houston area before AC?

Adapt and overcome you pussy.