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Old 07-18-2015, 10:24 AM
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So the blower is working but it's damn hot. Took it to Firestone to have the full Evac and re charge since I just did a motor swap. It's the same vq35de motor. Firestone tested the connector going to the compressor and he said I have no power. I replaced the AC compressor relay in the IPDM. No luck... Putting it back together, I found a connector on the front end that I couldn't find its home. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.



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Can't say where they are, but in general, there should be a low-pressure switch, and a high-pressure switch, to protect the system is pressure is too low or too high. Find them and jumper them, separately, to see if the compressor clicks on.
Old 07-19-2015, 09:19 AM
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Did you find out where that connector goes?
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Here's your answer, which relates to what I said in my first reply:



And, you may want to ask the 'tards at Firestone how they properly charged the system without the compressor running.
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Okay so after running through a list of what it could be, came to the pressure sensor. And the lack of one at that. I put a new condenser on and forgot to switch over the connector on top of the bottle. I know I know I'm stupid. Oh well. But I'm about to swap the sensor on and hopefully it works.
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Okay so I actually put the pressure sensor on the condenser. Went to advanced and bought a do it yourself for like 35 bucks. If you saw, I previously wasted 140 at Firestone for them doing it. Anyways, the second I pulled the trigger with the A/C pro, the compressor kicked on. Not even halfway in, the AC was pretty cold. By the time I was done, it was way too cold and I'm in 90-100 degree weather. So 35 bucks to charge the system and keep in mind, the system was filling discharged. Well worth the money and like 3 minutes to do it yourself.

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