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Posted by KJPRO on June 27, 2008, 9:29 pm
>I had my Central A/C tuned up at the beginning of June. It has been
> working nicely, I still am getting cooling. My unit is a 4 ton
> Carrier system. It is an older system that uses R22.
>
> Today, I happened to take a peak through the top of the condenser
> unit, and noticed that there is a crack in the metal case of light
> grey colored cylindrical part.
>
> Here are links to 2 photos:
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeofpch/cracked_ac.jpg
>
> and
>
> http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeofpch/cracked_ac2.jpg
>
> What part is this? Does the crack in the metal case mean failure will
> soon happen...if so how soon? What is the brown stuff I see on the
> side of this part below the crack...is this oil? Do I have a freon
> leak?
Accumulator.
Possibly, do you have a crystal ball?
Do you have a picture of the "brown stuff"?
> Nobody mentioned this during my tune-up. From the looks of it, it's
> hard to believe the crack didn't exist at the beginning of the month
> at all, and they didn't need to add any freon because pressure was
> fine, and I'm still getting adequate cooling as far as I can tell.
Pressures???
How about superheat and subcooling???
> Does anything need to be done?
Can't see or test it through my computer screen... and my crystal ball is in
for repair.
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