A/C system = Blown

[Wakeboy1337]

Summer just hit hard Sunday afternoon so I decided to press MAX A/C to keep the compressor running nonstop. Not even 2 minutes after doing so, I hear the sound you hear when a million beads fall on hard floor. and I see all of my A/C gas fly out from under the hood. I get home and compressor oil was all over (what a think is) the dryer, and all over the compressor. I finally get a chance to look at the car today and I cannot find a hole in the tubing or the dryer.(********* chamber is the dryer, right?)

This is an ATX a/c system btw.

I have some pics, as always

As you can see, the black paint has been ripped up by the pressure release.




I also noticed this, I It's attached to the compressor and has big ol' hole in the middle of it. Should it be like that?

 

[hawkeye18]

The dryer/condenser is the cylindrical item mounted to the firewall; it has a two-wire electrical connector on top of it and the low-side fill port to the passenger side of it. I don't know what the death-star looking thing down there but it isn't the dryer.

The hole in the line doesn't look good - lines generally shouldn't have holes in them.

 

[93rev2sev]

It's not on the firewall in MTXs. It's right by the compressor...yes...in the pic above.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

The dryer/condenser is the cylindrical item mounted to the firewall; it has a two-wire electrical connector on top of it and the low-side fill port to the passenger side of it. I don't know what the death-star looking thing down there but it isn't the dryer.

The hole in the line doesn't look good - lines generally shouldn't have holes in them.

I don't see a hole in my lines. Circle it for me

 

[SHO SPD]

The last picture is your pressure relief valve. It is normal. BTW I need that line for MTX if anyone has one!! (the line with the pressure relief valve)

Edit, I dont see any issues with those lines in that picture. The noise was probably your compressor taking at ****. The flaking paint is normal, those lines go from warm to cold to wet back to warm all the time so its tough on the metals.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

How do i tell where the failure point is, besides putting in more gas to see where it comes out?
I've done a compressor swap before, but We KNEW it was the compressor because it was leaking at the shaft seal.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

Alright I went out and rotated the compressor by hand (the center, not pulley) and there was no Resistance from it what so ever. Is it safe to say I need a compressor?

 

[hawkeye18]

Yeah, I'd say it's toast.

In other news: This was my first thought upon reading the title of this thread.

"Looks like you blew a seal."

"No, no, it's just ice cream!"

 

[Wakeboy1337]

Posting in Wanted to buy section now.