We got an oldie but of goodie here folks. 2003 It's the Dodge decoder. It's got the big 47 Magnum and it comes with a letter and he writes uh dear, Eric I Recently replaced the fan clutch which apparently has been broken for some time. I'm hearing other odd sound since replacing the fan clutch.

I Do know the AC compressor bearings are starting to fail. Uh, the shaft on the water pump seems loose. Well, I Agree with that fella. Um, let me hold this out here so I can read it all the way.

Uh, the shaft on water pump seems loose if you rock the fan front to back. I'm guessing that it has all the original belt pulley which may be starting fail. The previous owner did some kind of botched up wiring on the blower fan, so if it doesn't come on, just move the wiring harness by the blower fan and it will come on. I've not had time to repair the wiring.

Uh, if you can repair it for under 800, don't call me. We just need this old girl to last three more years. Love always your faithful customer So here we are: Uh I did start it up obviously to bring it in and there is some kind of bearing type noise under the hood here. It growls pretty good, but he says he knows that the AC compressor bearings are bad and wanted me to replace the compressor.

and then uh I also bought a water pump based off from uh, what he was saying here. So what I'm thinking is we'll just verify that the uh, you know compressor be where all this noise is coming from. It is quite noisy I Don't remember if this tank just comes out of the way easily I think they do. Would be nice to get this out of the way.

Get the get the fan off so we're not hearing the fan. Roar And then we can see if any of the other bearings are noisy. Looks like there's a couple screws that go through the front here. 8 mm socket.

see if we can't take those out. I think this top half splits apart. They don't look like they've been touched, but I would have thought this would have been out to do the clutch. Maybe you can sneak it up and out.

All right. There's one bolt, that's what that thing looks like. Another one over here. Hopefully we can get it without pulling the battery tray and there it is.

So there's the second one and I believe it'll make this loose. Oh yeah, oh, look at that. unplug the washer pump and looks like a low coolant reservoir or a low coolant sensor possibly? or is that a no, you dingdong your L washer sensor. Come on little fingers.

No, not today. Oh tough guy huh? And then to wash your hose, pull that off. it's probably going to PT Oh yeah, hold our finger over it. Then on this side, we should have or coolant H and kind of snake that around.

Oh oh gosh, there's a squirter here we go. We get this thing out of here so that gives us some room to work to sop up my mess. Should be able to see see the water pump pulley chucking back and forth. There's going to be a little play in your uh uh fan clutch here, but the in her pulley, she's got a little hitch in her goody up.

So let's undo this fan clutch and then we can start it. and then we'll be able to heer the bearings and figure out if it's just the AC Then we pull the Bel off and kind of reverifying it that way we have to do the water pump anyways. So this is why we're kind of going about. uh, this approach took this off.

Give us a little more room busting out some new tools newi is I've used it a few times. It's the uh, Pneumatic fan clutch tool real nice. This one's made by Maco I think a lot of companies make them. However, use it on the old air hammer so there's that half and then we'll get another brand new tool.

The brand new Astron Pneumatic Thor 401 Long barrel, beautiful trigger on this thing. Get your crack. Yes, it cracked unlike me on Fortnite I Am not cracked. There's that.

Going to use the old screwdriver megaphone trick I Showed that in a video not too long ago. Everybody thought it was amazing. It's Not super amazing I Showed how to do this long time ago on a a short or something, but it just, you know, amplifies the sound. You know it's just essentially the old school screwdriver on the ear trick.

except it has an amplifier. so there's that. Let's uh. fire this pig up.

See what she sounds like Like contact? Well, the air conditioner is very loud. Yes sir. Wow. that's deafening.

So bearing here in the AC is definitely loud. A lot of miles on this pig. bucks 70ish, 160, something? 167. Maybe Guy wants to do the whole compressor.

We've already spoke about this with the customer. Let's pull the belt off. kind of give the other pull these a flick. I See, it is a Napa belt so it's definitely not the original.

Um, probably have to have some tools to take it off. Maybe. Nope, not today. Grab a hold of that little guy.

so take our belt off. Leave it like that cuz we didn't mark it. Let's see what way the Napa sign's going. That way, we don't have to mark it.

Okay, the Nappa faces us, so we'll put it back on in that direction. Oh, or actually spins pretty hard. Like real hard. All right.

Well, let's start ripping and tearing. I'm going throw the AC machine on it. get that draining down, We'll get this, uh, water pump knocked out of here I Think these are pretty easy pumps to do so. We'll throw a bucket under there, see if we can't catch a little bit of our coolant, and then get the AC draining down too.

Let's get this party started. I Think we need to remove the belt tensioner here that exposes the bolts on the water pump we need to get to once. that's out of the way. Just got to peel all the bolts off it.

It better swap batteries. Whoa. We got a squirter. Get your bucket ready folks than that's everybody.

I Think these three bolts are longer than the other ones we took out. Yes, see, so we'll keep them where they need to be. You really can't screw it up, but woo just. D there's that.

uh I suppose if you want to be a little more civil about it, you can just drain the radiator, but this is just how I do. We'll get the rest of it out of there with a food extractor here. I'm just using a carbide scraper now going to dig off the big chunks of corrosion here. They're coming out a little scrubby.

oh that looks good that me Real good some of that. Crut out of there. All right. Then we're just going to clean off the mating surface here.

I'll probably get some brake clean. No job is complete without brake Parts cleaner. All right. let's go see if I remember to order a water pump.

Pretty sure I did and we did. We got one with a one piece bearing assembly and unitized seal Precision Ground shafting Hub Quality Forge housing with a Precision Oh precisely balanced impeller with replacement gaskets included not a sponsor. this is brand new made in China Like everything else in the world, we're going to put this gasket down in here which is's a tight fitting little bugger. It does have a couple alignment pins so or alignment spots here so we're going to line those up.

I'm going to just kind of randomly go around and get it started because if you start working it around, you'll end up with like 4 Ines of gasket over here that doesn't fit in anything. so I like to kind of start it in the corners and on the alignment guides, then try to push it straight down without walking it around and then once you get it started then you're usually in good shape. There we go I Just keep going around, make sure it's all good. When you get all done, say it's all good, it's all good.

Just like that. Let's go look up our torque specs. Oh who remembers what way this thing goes? Oh boy, we'll try it like this. We'll get real old.

C Try 18 Fig Newton Met no it's not. It's 25 new M 18 lb feet of torque I think was the official spec like I Say you can't really mess these bolts up where they go because if this if all you have is short bolts and long bolts. if you put the short bolt and a long bolt hole, it just goes in and doesn't hit anything. you know what I mean so don't sweat it.

too bad. And all the long bolts are all the same size. None of them appear to have thread sealer on them. Service data: Didn't say anything about using thread sealer so we're just going for it.

There's that, and then we'll Zippy zap them back down there. Okie dokie, it shouldn't take much. Let's go through and double check them all here. It's just about hand tight, you know, just barely tight.

Usually stuff like this with a o-ring type seal isn't very tight. We're hitting about 20 foot lbs there. So yeah, we did them somewhere between 18 and 22 so that's a piece of cake. Let's get our tensioner back on.

So this thing has a little Notch I Clean the corrosion off from this too and off the timing cover there. There you guys saw a little Notch goes where the bolt hole goes or where this bolt is down here. You can't screw this up either. Technically put that on there torque that to spec and you're good to go.

Well almost good to go. Got to get rid of some of our mess, take a little bit of this and give it and overall deing think that defective can here now that part of it is finished I Had to wash my patties. go help my sister for a minute. We need to remove this so we can remove this.

That is my guess coming after with the classic 10 mil oh intake broke on this side makes it easier. nothing's hanging on. Yeah, it's all this spinning round and round like a record baby over here here. Um wrong hole fella.

get this thing back on there. it's all greased up. Typically there would be a bolt here and a bolt here, but often times these intakes are broken. On the Big 47s we have evacuated the system.

a pound 14 oz I believe is what we removed. We'll unplug the compressor clutch. Uh, we might even have the tools out here we need. No, no yes no.

so it looks like we might need a 15. Let's get what we can while we here. Just like a can of folders, anybody? drink folders? anym I don't have TV So I don't know about if it's an advertisement. Anyways, when I as a kid it was.

It was also the best part of waking up. Maybe they don't even make it anymore I don't know Why do I remember the car coffee commercials? You remember the uh, what was it the captain? we forgot the Columbian coffee then the guy would turn the airplane around I don't remember any other one, any other commercials but those ones. There's a map sensor here on the end of the manifold so you got have to calm down a little bit here. Eric Let's get a pry bar you mother lover.

We got the oil fill cap here I Don't think we need to remove it. We should be able to wiggle up off here. However, on the back side of this pump, there's your spacer bushing that takes up space I don't know the technical name for it. You'll see once we get it off.

If we could get that to relax a little bit so she wants to wiggle out out this direction. I'm going to get a little punch I'm going to tap that in a little, free it up. Maybe might not have done anything. Why won't you comply? There we go.

It's totally non-c compliant. Keeps wanting to go this way. Come on. Okay, I'm going to pun you right in the face.

I'm going to stick a bold in there to keep it from going that way and see if we can't wiggle it up here. Remove the bolts and slip the O compressor right out of the way. We're going to grab our cylinder. it just got out of school.

How do I know that? because it's graduated I Don't know if this such a dead so we're going to drain the oil out of this little guy see how much oil we get out of it. I Didn't get any oil out of the system when I evacuated it which is a little concerning. Has nothing to do with the bearing failure on the front. because this bearing is simply an external bearing.

we're not getting much there out of the lines. Rotate it over here. Not much there fella. Not much at all.

10 mL Drain it out of body of the compressor here, spin it around and shake it all over here. I Think that's about it folks. What we end up with just shy of 20 ml. Now, technically, if the system's never been opened I mean this looks like all original lines and condenser and stuff on it, but I Can tell.

Usually when you're replacing a compressor, you drain out the old compressor, then you take your new compressor and drain it and then refill it back with the amount removed. Um, usually I get somewhere between 40 and 50 m out of a compressor. but uh, we're going to air on the side Of caution here. let's go.

D get our new compressor. Hopefully it's here. hopefully it's the right one. Rookie mistake if it's not, and then we'll drain it.

and let's say we'll probably put like 30. We'll put 35 MERS back in it. I Looked in surface data to see if sometimes there's a chart if you're replacing the compressor. How much oil to add to each individual component? but Chrysler like a lot of Manufacturers if you're replacing the compressor, replace it with the amount of oil that's in the one removed so that's where we're at.

So I Took the old Uh washers off the Ac lines, went upstairs, got us some new ones out of our AC line kit or AC gasket washer kit, miscellaneous parts kit I Guess 407405 407405 is part number from Napper if you need these washers, so there's that. Let's get our compressor on there now. it should slide in. A whole lot nicer.

Technically, there's that. We'll stick our long bolt through here. Feels like it's started. Get the other bolt here.

there's that little F and then we've got the other one back there. and then of course, our lines. Perfect. We'll snug these up a little bit before we crush it down.

We'll get this little guy here in the back, torque that one to spec, and then we'll torque these ones to spec. there's that one, there's that one and then get the Uh line here for the AC Need a bit of an extension Tor that one to spec? Course, we'll come back through with a Tor Crunch and everything before we're finished. Plug it up, go find our belt, remember the Napper was facing us and then we're going to take a little shot in the dark here. Oh no, we don't have to take a shooting shot in the dark.

We've got it here on our radiator support. Look at that. We don't even have to guess. that's good.

We're going to need a tool. I Imagine I Don't think we can do it by hand putting back on. Maybe we can look at that. Some days you get lucky we're off the power steering pump here.

Okay, so the belt's back on. Ah goty Josh over there doing a wheel bearing. We'll put that back in there. These our 10 mil that we already have.

the other side does not matter. CU If you remember correctly, that side is broke. here it is. Oh yeah yeah.

got jam on a little Notch up there on your air filter. We'll notch on this one. Nice nice job man. I'm going to hook the AC machine up.

We're going to get it under a vacuum. We'll pop the uh thing that goes here, your washer jug and your expansion tank. We'll pop that baby on and we'll charge it up and fill it up with some coolant and move on to the next job. sh I Guess we're going to need more.

Uh, what? we can do. Uh, now we've got a little bit of Co it. We can start it, make sure it's nice and quiet. If it is, then we'll throw that noisy old fan back in there.

Fan clutches are or mechanical fans are so loud sometimes it's hard to hear anything beyond them. but let's uh, start it up. we've got I don't know. probably a gallon and a half of cooling in it so far, so we should be okay in that regard.

Wait I got a little bit on the Belt there can leave that off, but let's go ahead and fire it up here for a little bit while that's still under a vacuum. or while it's building the vacuum and see what what it sounds like. contact. Oh yeah, that's way better.

Oh, she's quiet now. boys. All right, All right, there's that. We'll give her a little tap and should be good to go.

Only took a little bit more. Uh Co So I ended up taking a little over 2 gallons. Kind of surprise. That's quite a bit.

We're going to unhook the high side here. We'll move that to the side, make sure our cap has our o-ring or gasket in it. It appears to to put that in, had a pound 14 oz in it. Uh, total capacity 1.75 So that's a pound and 12 oz.

So it was slightly overcharged. So let's take and charge it up here. at least according to this. I Know maybe somebody threw a can or something in it at some point? Who knows.

Like could say. all the components on it look pretty original. Doesn't look too bad here. Under the hood see the top of the frame.

There is looking a little crusty though. so as soon as that's done purging there out, that'll throw a little charge on there. we'll fire it up. I did tighten up the fan clutch and then I went back through and torqued everything uh to factory specs off camera so as I wouldn't bore you guys with all that contact.

I see the money lights on and it's my fault idiot. This just about fall oh she getting chilly looks good, sounds good. Wait for a thermostat to cycle here that is a balm me 84 f today. moisture level's quite High running about 50 on the inside so 34 difference so that's pretty good.

We just started up too cool reset his engine light for him. Good thing is inspections not du I feel like real dinged on it's cold I Can tell you that I've switched over to the Uh Canadian scale or I as I should say the rest of the world. Every place but America that uses the Metric system I wish we'd just convert. To be honest with you, it's so much easier.

You know zero is cold 100 HP figure out everything in between. So we're driving down the road at a 10.2 de C Metric system where everything's divisible by 10. It's a great system. I Don't know why the US has never converted.

Maybe somebody can enlighten me on that, my wheels. We still insist on using Imperial system. I Don't know. Temperatures hold nice and steady.

Everything looks pretty good. 166 That's what's got on it. AC's blown a b me 10 to 11 out of the dash. Oh look at this fresh black top.

Doesn't it just make you want to pull off a? Mater Hey look at me I'm the first one on a new road but I think people driving on this road already? Well, we'll leave it at that folks. 166 223 We got to go right down. We'll grab our thermometer here and go and write it up. So easy fix.

C Diagnos the whole thing so worked out pretty well. Uh AC Compressor water pump. Easy job on these 47s and I don't have anything else to say. It's hot, stuffy, it's humid.

it's disgusting for September we've had, um, like this week long of just 90 weather, it's been just Savage I think today's the last day of it though. hopefully back into the 70s again. Um, and why don't you guys get back down there even if you're not into your 7s, leave a comment, questions and concerns you have for me, Find me on the insta and the Facebook You guys know what to do and just remember viewers. If I can do it, you can do it.

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