[AT] OT, one of those days, a Monday

Tue May 19 14:22:08 PDT 2020

If it was iced over that is why your refrig is warm. You need good air flow to get the heat out of the refrigerator and over the coil. Usually, A. bad evap fan, but they usually squeak for a while before dying. B. Defrost timer, either under in the front or in the compressor compartment. You didn't say if side by side or top or bottom freezer. Can usually manually turn it, one direction screw till it clicks and see if it actually defrosts to rule out heaters, but you said they were burnt. Sometime there is a Klixon to terminate defrost then bring the fan on after the coil reaches a certain preset temp. If dual purpose then three wire round thing attached to the coil. That sounds like why your fan was on in the morning. I did commercial refrigeration for 30 years, but have had to look at my own and friends enough times to know they are a real pita. Also some new ones are now propane refrigerant. Oh how I miss R-12. ☹ At least compressors for 134a have improved over the years.  

Brad

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Yesterday started out like any other day.  Wife went to get necessities, and I was working on cattle chutes to move some of the 60 head too many we have here.  While moving the panels around and getting the others that needed to be welded, the A/C on the New Holland money pit quit. Then I noticed the red battery light on the dash.  That meant the fan belt had broke again.  This one had only 3 hours on it.  A new pulley was installed at that time. the old one lasted about 14 hours after I replaced the water pump.  Serpentine belt, not my favorite..  Then Cowboy the wonder dog had to find a skunk and then forgot that he had an experience with these stinky things 4 years ago.  This one was only 40 ft from where i had the New Holland under a shade tree to work on. When I investigated the fan belt I found the idler pulley I replaced was looser than the old one. Replacement was plastic, the old one was steel.  Called Dealership and found that all replacements were plastic. Decided to replace tensioner and all idlers.  Got on internet and found a listing on Dayco idlers by size.  Found a number then crossed it over to Napa number and called my small town NAPA, they had it and the belt, the dealership had the tensioner.

Got a big bottle of Dawn and gave Cowboy the wonder dog a bath and then sprayed with a mixture of peroxide and some odor stuff for dogs.  He is tolerable now.

My wife returned from shopping and then advised me that the refrigerator had quit working.    We moved everything that could be moved into a freezer and then re-adjusted things into another refrigerator and ice chest.   Could not find dry ice locally.   I opened up the evaporator on the freezer and found it was iced over.  thawed everything out and the fan would not run.   Checked with voltmeter and for some reason power would not get to the fan.  Googled everything and checked again. Ice in the cols had moved the metal rib on the defroster heater  to short out the wires on the end.   It was not either the defroster thermostat or the timer.  I took off the lower section in the refrigerator and still could not find the timer.  I gave up at midnight and decided to find another refrigerator this morning.  7am this morning the fan is running and the freezer is cold, but the fridge is only 50deg.  I moved the thermostat tube around and am waiting on it to cool down some more. Not sure to trust it or not.  It is only 35 years old..........

The New Holland has to have the radiator removed to replace all the belt idlers.  I did this last month when I replaced the water pump, but had the loader off at the time.  This time the loader is on it.     Loads of fun!!!!

Cecil

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