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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to show you how to fix the aftermath of a teenager's car wreck, now
if you've got a teenage car driver, or used to have one, you know they often get
into wrecks, and with a high cost of insurance for teenagers, most people
don't have collision, so if they get in a wreck, you got to pay to fix your own car,
so today I'm going to show you how to fix a broken air conditioner on
this wrecked car, and save yourself a ton of money, now even though the car was hit
in the front here, and the fans have got close to the exhaust manifold, it
didn't break the radiator, it just bent, it so the car ran okay, but when they
turn on the air conditioning, it wouldn't blow cold, and that's because the rack
pushed a piece of the frame into the AC condenser and all the refrigerant leaked
out, so I'm going to show you how to fix it so the AC will work okay, it won't be
a perfect job, but it'll work good enough to let him go down the road and run into
something next time, now if we look down inside here, we can see where our piece
of the frame has it the AC condenser, knocked a hole in it, and that's where this
reciprocal saw is going to come in handy, we're going to use it to cut that little
piece off in the front, so we can get the old one off and have room to put the new
one in, now normally you'd want to be careful not to cut a hole in the
condenser, but it's already got a hole in it, so real really care, we'll just use a
saw which I got for $20 on sale at harbor freight tools, and it may be made in
China, but I've had it for years and it still works fine, we'll just stick it
in here, and cut the piece off, and of course we'll cut the other side too,
then after unbolting all the bolts to the condenser and the two lines that
feed refrigerant to it, will just wiggle the condenser out of the way,
and out comes the broken frame part, you can see it really got bent
up, and just look at the difference in the old broken one and the brand new
straight one, then we'll carefully slide the new condenser in, and amazingly
enough, it still fits into the hole in the bottom, and we lucked out there,
because if it was bent anymore, and it didn't fit, we'd have one heck of the
time making holes line up, so it would fit in them, then we'll line up the air
conditioning lines on the condenser, and bolt them on, then of course you got hook up
an evacuation pump, to suck all the air out of the system before filling it up
with new refrigerant, you want to do that for about an hour, so while you're doing
that, you can put all the rest of the car back together, put the grill back in and
bolt it on, screw all the pieces in tight, then after about an hour of evacuating
all the moisture out of the system, you fill it up with refrigerant, and it
tells you how much right on the sticker here, it says point five five kilograms,
so we'll fill it up using this scale until it gets to point five five kilograms,
it's starting to fill up, and there we go, now it's full, now we got a nice and cool
air coming out of the vents, to cool myself down after all this hard work, so
now you can go back to being a cool cat in your air-conditioned car, and remember
if you have any car questions, just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel,
and I'll answer them as soon as I get back from this winter wonderland!
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