Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:52:47 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
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From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Looking for "Safety Plug" for A/C system
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These might give you a solution.
Stan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woten, Rodney" <rodney.woten@LENNOXIND.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for "Safety Plug" for A/C system
Actually Stan, The plug blew because our fan resistor up front was dead
which stopped the fan from coming on. Since the low fan speed hadn't worked
since we bought the van, I didn't know it was bad. Anyway, the lack of a
fan caused the condenser coil to overheat, which built up to much head
pressure and blew the plug. If the R/D had been clogged, the pressure would
have never made it THRU the R/D to the plug. Instead it would have blown
the hose that runs from the condenser to the R/D.
I hadn't heard of it either until I looked in the Bentley, AND I unscrewed
the dumb thing from the top of the R/D and held it in my own two hands.
Take a peak at the page I cited in the original post (87.7)...better yet
take a 15 mm box wrench and use it to remove that funny looking plug with
the hex that sits right above the sight glass. I swear I didn't make this
up.
And now back to my original question. Does anyone know where I can get a
replacement for this???
Thanks again!
Rod Woten
'87 Westy
Des Moines, Iowa
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:11 AM
To: Woten, Rodney; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Looking for "Safety Plug" for A/C system
I've never heard of a safety plug on an air conditioner dryer.
I have seen a sight glass under a rubber plug on some dryers.
I'd say that if you feel that your drier is the exception to the rule and
did have a safety pop off then you need to replace the dryer because the
fact that the plug is missing would indicate a stopped up dryer, that the
dryer safety performed as designed or that the dryer is simply ready for
replacement.
Stan Wilder
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woten, Rodney" <rodney.woten@LENNOXIND.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 8:47 AM
Subject: Looking for "Safety Plug" for A/C system
All,
Finally got around to finding the leak in our '87 Westy. It appears that
the safety plug that sits atop the receiver/dryer, in the driver's side rear
wheelwell, has blown it's plug. It's basically a threaded plug with a hex
bolt head on the top. The center has a hole where, I'm surmising, a small
hard rubber plug once resided. It almost looks like an LP orifice with an
oversized hole. Bentley refers to this little dandy on page 87.7.Does
anyone sell these valves/plugs. Ron @ Busdepot, Ken @ Vanagain? Or will
any A/C shop have something that will work? I'd like to get this replaced
so I can diagnose the rest of our A/C system.
TIA!!!
Rod Woten
'87 Westy
Des Moines, Iowa
