Finding a leak after she smelled something.

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Oct 28, 2026
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Finding a leak, pumping down, insulation pulled into blower, will return to replace coil.
Alright, this is a no-heat call where the customer
actually called and said she smelled something
and you can hear it was
Starting to pump down. I'm gonna try to look inside
and see if it's got a TXV or anything like that
I'm not
seeing
that TXV
at least
not
right
now.
Looks
like it's
going.
I don't
know if
you can
see that
Looks like it's got a piston and I see a liquid line dryer down there
This thing may just be low
on freon. I'm gonna try
to charge it and see if it
straightens up
and we might do a leak
search. all right i'm charging
the head pressure really
should be closer to um 300 on this so i'm gonna
see if it was just really low on freon and then
we'll do a leak search. we think it
was just low on freon
so she said she smelled something so i'm
gonna do a quick
visual out here
and then we're gonna
check inside first. we
got enough screws
Nothing really looked suspect.
Set that right there. I'm going to put some bubbles on that.
In fact, I'm
not seeing an oil.
It must have just
kind of watered
down still.
Let's go inside.
I'm going to get the back of the head.
...inflation,
whether or not,
but the line
set in that air
handler, in the
back of the air
handler,
we've either got to do some creative welding
or cut open the back just to...
