I guess it's because something so fragile should be better protected. It took me two seconds of looking at the condensors side by side to come up with the foam wrap trick. I thought engineers went to school for that stuff.

 

Live in Woodbridge, VA, work in Arlington.


Yay for I95 traffic!

 

Don't mean to sound like a smarty-pants but I do automotive a/c work on a daily basis and unless you put a new dryer in at the same time AND did a vacuum you're going to have trouble soon. Not serious trouble but you'll find that the A/C unit isn't cooling nearly as well as it could. The dryer is designed to remove water that gets into the sytem using a desicant (sp?) and when you opened up your system to replace the condensor you probably allowed a bunch of humidity into the system. It doesn't take much to saturate the desicant and render the dryer ineffective. Dryer's are cheap and I highly reccomend that you suck out all the 'new' freon, install a new dryer, pull a vaccum on it for at least 45 minutes, then fill her up with new freon. PM me if you need some help.

Soccerdude

 

That's not all bad, there are some decent restaurants in Kingstowne now. I work in Rosslyn, Defense work like a lot of Northern VA.

 

I looked into an a/c vacuum but figured I would go this route first. If it doesn't hold, I will just take it somewhere to get the work done. I appreciate the information.

 

Do what my old pal did to his 91 civic... ditch the ac condenser and replace it with a belt driven air compressor for a train horn... a perfectly reasonable idea

 

I graduated Colonial Forge in 05. Are they still building houses in really huge subdivisions?

 

Yes but the prices are dropping and some projects are on hold.