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Started rattling , clacking recently. AC works fine. Clutch or compressor? How to isolate?
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Yeah well then I guess someone with a 95-older may one day get help from the post I just spent my time typing, lol
Yeah well then I guess someone with a 95-older may one day get help from the post I just spent my time typing, lol
Richard
They start rattling before they lock up. HT6 compressors that is. The aftermarket style Veleo I installed in my Express back in 2006 after the OEM HT6 failed started rattling a couple of years ago but was still cooling at 38°F. Swapping it out for a Sanden SD7H15 replacement with a full kit. New orifice tube, new expansion valve and accumulator, flushing the system, etc. Would recommend looking into replacing it before it completely shells out and sends metal and teflon through the whole system like my OEM one did back in 04. I had to change the condenser in 06. Orifice tube is clean now though and just going to flush everything and replace the compressor kit this time.
Just throwing this out there, you might want to take it to someone with a set of good gauges and have the levels checked. The compressor on my red '97 has been loud almost the entire time I've owned the truck, which is 12+ years... Until recently. My A/C finally quit cooling so I took it to my mechanic and he found that it was low. He recharged the system (which probably had not been done since the truck was new) and it quieted the compressor down significantly. Might be worth a shot before you start gathering parts to replace things.
Just throwing this out there, you might want to take it to someone with a set of good gauges and have the levels checked. The compressor on my red '97 has been loud almost the entire time I've owned the truck, which is 12+ years... Until recently. My A/C finally quit cooling so I took it to my mechanic and he found that it was low. He recharged the system (which probably had not been done since the truck was new) and it quieted the compressor down significantly. Might be worth a shot before you start gathering parts to replace things.