billcu
Dedicated LVC Member
In 2 days.
I've had this before, so I recognized the symptoms. It happened (black car) when we got a lot of rain, then temps in the teens for about a week. The compressor runs, but the car won't lift and the compressor times out. I turned the switch in the trunk off and drove home, it was just a little lower than normal.
I drove the green Mark to work the next day (no salt yet) and it froze the same way.
Luckily, we have a garage at work. I parked it in there, it thawed out, I pumped it up, and I drove home with the switch off.
I swapped the dryer from the black car with a brand new one from the Town Car compressor that I put in my green car a couple of years ago (one of these days I'll put a Mark compressor back in there ). The only difference in the drier is the cap. The Town Car has one airline hole, the Mark has four.
While I was working on the compressor, I pulled the spider valve out of my red car, and put it into the black car. I was going to do this anyway, so this was a good time for it.
I dumped all the saturated dessicant beads from the black dryer onto a paper plate, and they are drying next to the heat register in my living room. I can hear them drying, they are expanding or contracting and falling off the top of the pile onto the plate.
I'm in no hurry drying this dryer out, I won't be driving the green one soon, as the weather is predicting salt this week. When it's dry, I'll put it in the green car, then dry that one out as a spare.
I've had this before, so I recognized the symptoms. It happened (black car) when we got a lot of rain, then temps in the teens for about a week. The compressor runs, but the car won't lift and the compressor times out. I turned the switch in the trunk off and drove home, it was just a little lower than normal.
I drove the green Mark to work the next day (no salt yet) and it froze the same way.
Luckily, we have a garage at work. I parked it in there, it thawed out, I pumped it up, and I drove home with the switch off.I swapped the dryer from the black car with a brand new one from the Town Car compressor that I put in my green car a couple of years ago (one of these days I'll put a Mark compressor back in there
). The only difference in the drier is the cap. The Town Car has one airline hole, the Mark has four.While I was working on the compressor, I pulled the spider valve out of my red car, and put it into the black car. I was going to do this anyway, so this was a good time for it.
I dumped all the saturated dessicant beads from the black dryer onto a paper plate, and they are drying next to the heat register in my living room. I can hear them drying, they are expanding or contracting and falling off the top of the pile onto the plate.
I'm in no hurry drying this dryer out, I won't be driving the green one soon, as the weather is predicting salt this week. When it's dry, I'll put it in the green car, then dry that one out as a spare.
