Honda CRV AC Compressor Removal and Installation Procedures

Honda CR-V AC Compressor Replacement Procedures
1. Take the CRV to a licensed air-con technician to have the air-con system discharged. 9Given the intense stress the system is beneath and the environmental risks of the refrigerant, this should never be attempted by an amateur.)
2. Disconnect the automotive’s negative battery cable by loosening its clamp nut with a wrench. Set the parking brake and block the rear wheels with chocks. Elevate the car’s entrance finish using a jack, place jack stands beneath the automobile and and lower the automobile onto the stands.
3. Take off the power steering drive belt by loosening the mounting bolts/locknuts, turning the adjuster bolts to loosen the belt tension and slipping the belt off its pulleys. Use the identical procedure to remove the alternator/compressor drive belt.
Make a note of how the belts had been routed on the pulleys; there may be normally a printed diagram on the side of the engine compartment.
4. Take away the battery ground strap bolt for the car’s alternator and the duvet from the radiator crossmember, then remove the higher radiator mounting brackets and rubber insulators. Take away the alternator’s mounting bolts, disconnect the black wire and the electrical connector, and detach the harness clip to take away the alternator.
5. Remove the splash defend from underneath the engine compartment by eradicating the fasteners from the proper and left sides.
6. Detach the coolant reservoir by disconnecting the reservoir hose from the radiator filler neck (plug the hose to maintain it from leaking), by eradicating the mounting bolts and lifting the reservoir out of the engine compartment.
7. Disconnect the compressor clutch wiring harness. Disconnect the refrigerant strains from the compressor and plug the open fittings to stop contaminants from entering. Remove the compressor’s mounting bolts from the bracket, and guide the compressor carefully out the opening under the engine compartment.
8. Transfer the clutch from the old compressor to the new one if the outdated compressor does not have one, by unbolting the clutch from the old compressor and bolting it onto the brand new one. (This requires a special clutch holding instrument obtainable at auto elements stores.)
9. Drain the refrigerant oil from the old compressor by the suction fitting right into a graduated container and measure the amount. Subtract the quantity of oil from four-1/three ounces to calculate the quantity of oil you will need to add to the new compressor. Add the resulting quantity to the compressor by the fill hole.
10. Mount the brand new compressor onto its bracket and tighten the mounting bolts.
11. Join all lines and electrical connectors to the new compressor. Use new O-rings the place the line fittings hook up with the compressor.
12. Re-join all components and parts that had been disconnected to entry the compressor.
13. Have the air con system evacuated, recharged and leak examined by the technician that discharged the system.