Aircon Cleaning

[Mick]

hey i melted a huge hole in my aircon hose under the hood when i had my screamer pipe on and i didnt realise for quite a while, i knew it stopped blowing cold air but i still used it to just blow air a few times and the heater still works fine so i had run that quite a bit with this big hole melted through the silver insulated aircon hose. Anyways i have got a new hose to put on it and i will then get it filled back up with has cos obviously its empty but im worried about all the crap that would have got inside that big hole, everytime it has been turned on would it have sucked and blown all that crap inside it all? and if so what would i need to clean exactly?

would it have gotten into the aluminum canister or into the unit in the dash, the aircon is totaly empty so i can safely open stuff up but in not sure where i would need to clean

[Ben C34]

If the air con has no gas in it it doesn't actually turn on the compressor, so it wouldn't have pumped stuff through.

Stuff would have just got in on its own free will, probably wouldn't have got out of the hose into other bit. See what the air con guy says.

[89CAL]

If you are truly worried they can do a flush. As Ben said, the A/C compressor has a trinary switch that turns it off above a certain pressure and below a certain pressure. As soon as the hose started leaking the compressor would have cut out and never started again. Air con systems need to be clean, but I dont expect too much would have got into the system (bar the melted pipe which has been replaced anyway)

[Mick]

thanks guys i was having nightmares of rippin my dash out and opening up the aircon to clean it all out haha