We work on this 1996 Toyota RAV4 2 Door Japanese Import with a mysterious AC problem that could be a simple fix or the complicated kind. So which will it be?
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Thanks for sharing the vdo. (Hello from BKK; I still love and drive that Camry 2.2 2001 SXV20, RHD anyway).
59:30 you can see the rear seat belt on the very back of the car next to the rear side window. Or am i tripping ^^
Only great people drive these cars
Super job done and very interesting video. RAV4 forever !!!
The pattern on the seats is to hide dirt better
Looking for a video of what the wheel well should look like . 2024 4 runner limited. Above the tires if wheel well isn't the correct name. Mine looks like it's been patched. I bought it brand new.
I really think your videos are great! I like the attention to detail!
But let me add a few comments to the "principile of A/C". First of all, an A/C is a heat pump.
It works by changing the state of refigerant – gaseous – liquid. Simply increasing pressure and temperature without changing the state of the fluid would not yield a sufficient cooling power! Otherwise this would work with just air.
Every gas increases the temperature when the pressure is increased – this is also fundamental to how an ICE works, esp. a Diesel.
The compressor increases the pressure. the refrigerant is hot/gaseous.
It passes through the condenser at the front of the vehicle, changes state to liquid under high pressure.
The liquid passes then through the expansion valve, thereby decrasing the pressure rapidly before entering the evaporator. This pressure drop enables the refrigerant to change the state to a gas again.
THIS is what acutally consumes the most amount of heat – hence cooling the surrounding air (evaporator = heat exchanger). after the evap. the refrigerant is under low pressure + gaseous but still cold.
Now it enters the compressor again and the cylce repeats.
Cheers
It seems like the plastics is better than today's junk.
The unrelentingly black dashboards were good for avoiding windscreen reflections, but oh boy, they are unrelentingly black!
He keeps saying it's a basic car and that's how they used to do things back then. my friend you know this but that is why they last forever and didn't break much at all. they don't have all the bells and whistles and computer junk that breaks. So they last much longer and you don't spend a lot of money to go over 300,000 miles like you do now
take the floor mat out next time that thing is so thick it probably would have gave you 1/2 an inch that you could have used
That license plate is too cute OG RAV4 owner has a sense of humor.
Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I once owned a 1996 Corolla. I think it had a 4AFE engine. It did really like drinking oil after about 60,000 miles. I kept the car for 20 years. It was indeed a much simpler, very basic car…and….it worked! I made a point of babying it and ensuring all maintenance was done either on time or early. We had one international trip, to Montreal, in the car. I recall that the car had a tough time getting up the bigger hills in Maine.
Gonna need a/c in Texas
0:42 That's good for business, take on stuff that no one else wants and you tend to learn more than the compatition; you'll in turn get more business for specialize in getting the hard jobs done that no one else took on.
replace O-rings once open
CAR CARE NUT!!!…. Hot-tip for you…If you don't want those evaporator box spring-clips to go flying, simply stick your flat-blade screwdriver into the upper slot of the spring-clip and lever it downward. This pries back the clip and unloading the spring tension, and it simply comes off on your screw-driver with zero fuss. It's really quite genius how it was designed.
30:53 the service manual says that the bar you’re asking to be removable is actually meant to be cut and then replaced with a metal part. I don’t have the number of the part off the top of my head, but when I searched for it almost two years ago, it was not available. I ended up making two small metal plates to reattach the plastic section I removed to the rest of the dash.
Cutting that plastic bar makes removing and installing the evap box a gajillion times easier.
I also did this recently on my Spyder. Similarly, the manual states to cut that same bar and replace it. I ended up not reattaching the bar on that car and the glovebox is still very sturdy. It doesn’t feel flimsy and it held up great through a track day filled with accidental off-road excursions.
Always interesting!
That's a really beutiful example of the RAV4. I recently bought a 5th gen hybrid and I've been watching the whole RAV4 lineup closely, it's just beautiful how the car has evolved. I take special look to these first generations to appreciate how well this cool concept has aged.
AMD what's the Venza in the background in for? Curious what you think of the 1st gen Venza since it's such an unusual car.
I curse a lot when I do repairs like this. Try it. It's more fun.