A/c Problem

[Numba1usmarine]

my A/C hasent worked for the past couple of months. today i changed my coils out and flushed the cooling system after i was finished i turned on the A/C to see if it works then surprisingly the A/C was blowing cold air but that only lasted for 10 minutes then it went back to blowing warm air. i was told that the heater control valve is bad i am in the processing of ordering that part, but what would make the A/C work then just stop working?

 

[Frogman]

Low freon level would be my first guess.
Moisture in the system my second guess.
The moon not being aligned with Jupiter my third guess.

 

[Numba1usmarine]

so there is no chance that it would be the heater valve that got stuck and it not opening back again to let a/c work

 

[Frogman]

I never said that, now did I...

I told you what I would personally look at first if I were in your shoes.

Oh, and you can't be the #1 Marine. Surely, you're not Old Chesty himself.

 

[Numba1usmarine]

i just wanted a second opinion. i was told a while back that my heater valve was bad

 

[Frogman]

And it could very well be bad. Without actually seeing it, it's kind of hard to diagnose crap.

 

[NateRW21]

take it to an A/C shop... a lot of them will give free estimates

 

[joegr]

If you've got a couple of pairs of vice-grips, use them to clamp off each of the two heater hoses the run between the DCCV and the heater core. If the cold air comes back, then you're problem is 98% certain to be the DCCV. (The other 2% would be the control head.)

If you get the hoses completely clamped down (no coolant flow), and still don't get cold air, then low freon is likely, but not certain.

 

[Numba1usmarine]

thanks alot for all the help i will take the car back to base tomorrow and check it out

 

[NateRW21]

So the Army calls helicopters choppers....

Air Force calls them Copters

What do Marines call helicopters?







Points to the sky... UOOHHH UOOHHH UOOHHH UOOHHH UOOHHH

 

[NateRW21]

I may have said that joke before... but it never gets old!!

:-D

 

[Frogman]

Hahahahaha

 

[Numba1usmarine]

funny lol