{"id":1336,"date":"2016-08-18T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2016-08-18T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:00:44","slug":"chrysler-air-conditioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/18\/chrysler-air-conditioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler Air Conditioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mechanics like to beat on engineers whenever their designs make it hard to work on. Sometimes it&#8217;s not their fault, but other times it just doesn&#8217;t make sense why things are the way they are. Whoever designed the air conditioning system in 5th generation Chrysler Town &amp; Country minivans must not have known that the air conditioning needs servicing occasionally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1343\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_18_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_08_18_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the service ports on the system is located underneath the air filter box. I&#8217;ve seen some cars where you actually have to remove the entire air filter box just to get to the fitting, but luckily on this one I was able to slip it in, but it was tight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1344\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_18_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_08_18_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So why was I working on the A\/C? It had a leak in the lines that go to the system for the rear of the van. You can&#8217;t replace only the one line that&#8217;s leaking, you need to replace both A\/C lines and both heater lines at the same time, as they all come as one piece. And then it&#8217;s time to figure out how to route eight feet of rigid pipe around exhaust, suspension, and brake lines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1345\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/2016_08_18_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_08_18_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems nobody expected the rear A\/C lines to go bad, because to get them out you have to remove the right rear shock absorber mount. I&#8217;ve seen plenty of rear A\/C lines go bad, on multiple brands. If I was buying a minivan, I would get one without separate rear A\/C just to avoid these problems.<\/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>Mechanics like to beat on engineers whenever their designs make it hard to work on. Sometimes it&#8217;s not their fault, but other times it just doesn&#8217;t make sense why things are the way they are. Whoever designed the air conditioning system in 5th generation Chrysler Town &amp; Country minivans must not have known that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19,42],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-air-conditioning","tag-heating-cooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","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=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}