{"id":1184,"date":"2016-06-30T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2016-06-30T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:00:37","slug":"my-car-ac-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/30\/my-car-ac-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: A\/C Fixed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year I made a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2016\/02\/18\/my-car-plans-for-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">four things I wanted to fix<\/a> on my car this year. Halfway through the year and I&#8217;ve finally accomplished a second repair.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1199\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_06_30_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_06_30_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I bought my car, the air conditioning hasn&#8217;t work. Last summer I charged it up, but it didn&#8217;t seem to work, and I didn&#8217;t really have the time to diagnose it, so I lived with driving around with the windows down the whole summer. I didn&#8217;t want to that again this summer, so during lunch one day I recharged the system again, which was almost empty again, and put in some fluorescent dye so I could find where the leak was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1200\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_06_30_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_06_30_02.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a week I had no more A\/C, which means it had all leaked out, but with the dye in the system I could now easily find the leak. The only leakage I could find was on the connection at the top of the condenser. I was expecting to have an actual leaking condenser, but it turned out all I needed was an O-ring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1201\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2016_06_30_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_06_30_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two dollars later, and I have a new O-ring, get it installed, and recharge the system again. I also had to tighten the belt for the A\/C compressor, but now my A\/C is working great. Hopefully that was the only leak, but if it isn&#8217;t I should be able to find it with the dye.<\/p>\n<p>Stay cool this summer!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the year I made a post about four things I wanted to fix on my car this year. Halfway through the year and I&#8217;ve finally accomplished a second repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-car","tag-air-conditioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}