12-30-2015, 05:09 AM
Update:
I found a local guy who does mostly refrigerator and roof a/c work. It took a bit of convincing (OK begging) to get him to come to my shop and install a new compressor and filter/dryer in my Dometic house a/c. He's Amish and doesn't do house calls, he keeps very busy at his shop doing the work that comes to him. He could not get the Newell in his shop and due to weather working on it outside was not possible so I agreed to haul his equipment and him to my place.
This unit has the condenser mounted just under the driver seat and the evaporator on the passenger side just aft of the side door. It was totally out of R22. The low side elbow on the side of the compressor is cracked. I found a new Tecumseh compressor and filter/drier at a local HVAC supply (Johnstone Supply) so we installed that. The bolt patter of the newer compressor was slightly different but that only required an additional hole to be drilled in the bottom of the box. He put 56 oz. of R22 in ( At $1.00 / oz.) to reach the cooling and evap temps that he thought were ideal considering the ambient temp of 63o. He pulled a fairly deep vacuum (80 microns???) before adding R22. He had never done a nitrogen purge before but after I explained it as best I could based on the knowledge I had gained here he had no problem doing it and was thankful for that information. I had already installed a new blower motor in that cabinet so hopefully I'm "good to go".
Thanks to my Newell buddies on this forum and especially to Richard, Jon (77newell) , and Larry Weikert for answering my phone queries.!!!
I found a local guy who does mostly refrigerator and roof a/c work. It took a bit of convincing (OK begging) to get him to come to my shop and install a new compressor and filter/dryer in my Dometic house a/c. He's Amish and doesn't do house calls, he keeps very busy at his shop doing the work that comes to him. He could not get the Newell in his shop and due to weather working on it outside was not possible so I agreed to haul his equipment and him to my place.
This unit has the condenser mounted just under the driver seat and the evaporator on the passenger side just aft of the side door. It was totally out of R22. The low side elbow on the side of the compressor is cracked. I found a new Tecumseh compressor and filter/drier at a local HVAC supply (Johnstone Supply) so we installed that. The bolt patter of the newer compressor was slightly different but that only required an additional hole to be drilled in the bottom of the box. He put 56 oz. of R22 in ( At $1.00 / oz.) to reach the cooling and evap temps that he thought were ideal considering the ambient temp of 63o. He pulled a fairly deep vacuum (80 microns???) before adding R22. He had never done a nitrogen purge before but after I explained it as best I could based on the knowledge I had gained here he had no problem doing it and was thankful for that information. I had already installed a new blower motor in that cabinet so hopefully I'm "good to go".
Thanks to my Newell buddies on this forum and especially to Richard, Jon (77newell) , and Larry Weikert for answering my phone queries.!!!
1993 Newell (316) 45' 8V92,towing an Imperial open trailer or RnR custom built enclosed trailer. FMCA#232958 '67 Airstream Overlander 27' '67GTO,'76TransAm,'52Chevy panel, 2000 Corvette "Lingenfelter"modified, '23 Grand Cherokee.