{"id":3077,"date":"2017-06-29T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2017-06-29T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:00:33","slug":"pinpoint-the-pinhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/29\/pinpoint-the-pinhole\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinpoint The Pinhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I wrote about using fluorescent dye to find leaks in air conditioning systems. Sometimes dye doesn&#8217;t help and you have to use other methods, such as a leak detector, or just by looking carefully.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3084\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017_06_29_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_06_29_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After recharging the system on this 2017 Accord and injecting dye, I turned the car on to get it circulating through the system. I started being able to smell refrigerant, but I couldn&#8217;t see any dye leaking out anywhere. Looking closely at the condenser I noticed intermittent clouds of refrigerant spurting out of a slightly damaged area. It&#8217;s common for fins to get bent, which don&#8217;t cause leaks, but the rock or whatever happened to get through the grille and hit the condenser managed to just barely puncture where the refrigerant travels, causing a leak. The fix was a new condenser.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I wrote about using fluorescent dye to find leaks in air conditioning systems. Sometimes dye doesn&#8217;t help and you have to use other methods, such as a leak detector, or just by looking carefully.<\/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-3077","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\/3077","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=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}