bigjoncoop
Member
- Joined
- January 1, 2023
- Messages
- 34
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- 10
- City, State
- Melbourne
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 07 Explorer XLT V6, Ironm
2007 Explorer XLT V6 4.0
Today I noticed a faint refrigerant smell coming from the front AC vents and realize that it was blowing warm air. So I figured I had a leak in the system. Hopefully not the evaporator...
But then I realized that the rear AC was still blowing ice cold! But how could that be?
I understand that the rear AC has a separate evaporator but don't the front and rear evaporators share the same compressor? So if there is a leak in the front system wouldn't that affect the rear as well?
I made sure the blend door was fully open in the cold position. And as I mentioned I smell a faint refrigerant smell...
As I'm writing this I just realized that if I turn the front blower down to one for a while with the rear AC running, after about 10 minutes if I turn the front blower onto High it blows ice cold for about 5 seconds and then goes warm again...
ANY IDEAS?
Today I noticed a faint refrigerant smell coming from the front AC vents and realize that it was blowing warm air. So I figured I had a leak in the system. Hopefully not the evaporator...
But then I realized that the rear AC was still blowing ice cold! But how could that be?
I understand that the rear AC has a separate evaporator but don't the front and rear evaporators share the same compressor? So if there is a leak in the front system wouldn't that affect the rear as well?
I made sure the blend door was fully open in the cold position. And as I mentioned I smell a faint refrigerant smell...
As I'm writing this I just realized that if I turn the front blower down to one for a while with the rear AC running, after about 10 minutes if I turn the front blower onto High it blows ice cold for about 5 seconds and then goes warm again...
ANY IDEAS?