Fix It Right! – Evaporator Core Replacement (S1E5) Demonstrated on a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.7L V6 4WD. In this video, we demonstrate the process of remov…
Fix It Right! – Evaporator Core Replacement
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Best left to professionals? While I agree with that part of the video
(@0.43), I was humored to see how many times the “professional” tried to
pull up the center console, only to realize there were still more
bolts/nuts/clips to undo . . . seems like an experienced professional
would know where they all are.
Now, all that said, it does seem that the automotive engineers could set up
the design of the vehicle in such a manner that getting to the heater core
and/or evaporator core wasn’t such a hassle. I did a heater-core
replacement on a 1983 Buick Park Avenue several years back, and it was a
comparative breeze — job was done from under the hood, less than two hours
from start to finish, and it was the first time I had ever done a heater
core replacement. I’m visiting this video today because I now find I must
disassemble the entire dash (and drop the steering) of my 1998 Dodge Ram
just to replace a leaking heater core.
I had a guy do my 2006 jeep grand Cherokee and what he did was remover the
WHOLE dash without removing the sterring wheel or the radio.took it out it
one piece and replace the evap while the dash was out the car.only took him
4 hrs.
i already change the air housing distribuitor, and i put everything
together,and i turn on the air conditioner but something is wrong because
is not working y try the heater and is the same thing nothing!
So maybe not a great idea having the help blindly install what he has not
disassembled, unsupervised, He has no idea of the assembling sequence and
probably covered up some important fasteners,not to mention vacuum and
elect connectors. Looks like you threw out the manual on this one.Should
have followed it’s instructions. LOL How many hand fulls of homeless
fasteners or should I say displaced fasteners , did you end up with?The
headlights don’t mysteriously somehow control how cold she blows now ,do
they? Yep Done right in the good ole USA..
OMG…remind me never to buy a jeep cherokee! Thats ridiculous….3 bolts
to take the glove box out and you access to the evaporator core right there
under the passenger dash…1990 Honda Accord baby…that’s why i’ll never
sell it!
How many guesses does it take to get a center console off?
Using a freon detector/sniffer, the only places I could find a leak wre the
dashboard vents. Is the evaporator the most likely problem?
is the same on 2010 jeep liberty? if you need to remove the dash,you need
to remove the steering wheel?
Yeah, GLWT… 😀
That’s a hard 10 hour day, and even that assumes everything works when you
put it back together. Don’t envy anyone having to do that.
$900 to replace my expansion valve on my 04 galant I’m gonna do it myself
to save a bunch and the parts are super cheap
I am having my 2007 Jeep Liberty’s Evaporator core replaced tomorrow to the
tune of just short of $1200 thankfully this includes the evaporator but
still in my opinion too much money for what 15 years ago was a 1 to 2 hour
fix. Got to have cold AC in Arkansas in the summer though.
all this to replace the evaporator core dont believe it ! i have a 1996
tahoe hope is not this complicated
For this particular vehicle, since the evaporator core enters the side of
the airbox it can be removed without having to remove and disassemble the
whole airbox. The heater core would require those extra steps to access.
The Daimler-designed Jeeps are variant-specific for just about everything
(read: two Jeeps of the same model and year may be slightly different in
their construction) so your model might require airbox dismantling.
Just the labor for the evaporator core alone, not including any other parts
or the labor to install them (e.g., evac/recharge time, refrigerant, etc.)
is 10 hours. This job can run upwards of $1,500 in some areas, strictly
because of the labor costs. Gotta love those Daimler redesigns… :-/
And the customer will blame the mechanic when this job costs $1000, instead
of Chrysler.
We didn’t record the airbox part of the process for this video, but they
generally follow a clamshell design. The one big thing to watch out for are
the air doors – these will often have small nubs and drive pins that poke
through holes in the airbox casing, and can be trapped and broken off if
they slip out of position during reassembly. So, take your time, don’t
force anything, and watch for those air doors.
Doing same fix for my Son’s 2003 Ford Focus — with the evaporator behind
the dash. Quoted price: $1650 — but needed for these Virginia summers.
I’ll give you $100.00 to do mine. Easy money!
I have the dash off (waiting for the weekend) and now going to take apart
the HVAC assembly. The factory service manual is saying that the entire
HVAC assembly must be removed to do the evaporator. So then I would have to
drain cooling…etc.. This video is saying I’m able to access it not having
to do that? Do you have that part in another video? Thanks for your time.
i’m a tech at a nissan dealer and did an entire assembly replacement.. much
easier but it was so time consuming
OMFG that would SUCK to have to do that shit. And put it back together
correctly. DAMN
Great video. I always look forward to them. By the way, how did you
determine that the evaporator was leaking, and why did you not show its
actual removal?
What a miserable job. Must cost a fortune.