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Originally Posted by leathermang
I remembered it because I thought it odd that they did not consider it cleanable... or that was my interpretation of why they said it had to be replaced...
Perhaps there is a screen filter in it or something like that ? They could have mentioned that if there was... maybe they just wanted to sell new ones at any opportunity... and knew that was not going to be an aftermarket item...
The first time someone has a Black Death and replaces one of these someone needs to carefully split it open and do an autopsy on IT....
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Possible but then why don't they replace all hoses. The R12 condenser is a serpentine setup and debris will flush through it into the high pressure hose to the R/D. Or maybe they find that it is just in the manifold hose. could be hot metal parts that will embed into the rubber and dislodge later.
With this build up I think a inline filter in the high pressure line to the condenser will be a necessity, I was actually going to do that to protect the parallel flow condenser, but didn't. ACKITS.com advised that the PF condenser must be replace in a compressor failure, flushing is ineffective due to the small size of the condenser tubes.
Dave
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