Hey, what's up everybody welcome back to my channel Tuesday everything and today I'm working on this 2015 Nissan Rogue and we are going to be replacing the AC compressor along with the dryer tube and the expansion valve at the back and Here are the parts So the first thing I'm going to be working on is getting access to the compressor, which is down here at the bottom. Now if your vehicle has... refrigerant in the lines which mines doesn't if yours if yours does have a refrigerant still in here but you still need to replace the compressor you're gonna need to figure out how to drain that I cannot recommend you can either take it to the shop and have them drain it or you can do as you will to get this evacuated but anyway my system is down so I'm gonna start off by removing the two 10 millimeter bolts that are holding on those lines and that's just going to give me room right here in order to be able to access that bolt there and that bolt over there and then i'll show you the bottom bolts that have to be removed as well Alright, so now with more access I'm able to disconnect the wire and then I'm going to take loose those two bolts down there. Alright, so now with that removed, now I'm going to be going down to the wheel well. And I went ahead and turned my, turned the steering wheel towards the passenger side.
So I would have access to this. a Wilwell liner here and you're going to want to remove if you have that piece of plastic that is right that would usually be right here you're going to want to remove that that way you can have access to the belt the serpentine belt for me I don't have very many there's not very many snaps in here or clips so all this is pretty much loose the only thing that's holding this in is a few screws down here at the bottom so I'm going to take those those off and that's going to be this 10 millimeter this star That one, this star here, and see if I can make that a little better. So I'm going to take a few of these screws right here, and that should allow this piece of plastic to swing out of the way. Alright, so the proper size to remove those star screws is a T20. Alright, so I end up taking one more snap of my...
Anyway, right there out. Just to give me a little bit more room to manipulate this piece of plastic out of the way. Alright, so now that's where I have that out of the way Didn't have to crease it or anything like that.
Just kind of worked it about it there so now we're going to work on getting the belt off of here and Yes, so this is going to be a 14 millimeter in order to take the belt off. Alright, so now with the belt off we can continue on removing the AC compressor bolts. So... the other compressor bolts you're gonna have to gain access to them by from the bottom down here now some people might want to jack up the vehicle or something like that but i prefer to work with the space that i have and just go ahead and get them Knocked out without having to raise the vehicle up. But there's one of the bolts right there and the other one is right there.
So I should be able to get that with my ratchet in this room right here. So I'm going to take those off and then I will show you all what's next. Alright, so now I have the bolts out of the compressor. You can see it sitting right there I'm going to be trying to get it up and out of that little hole there I think it should come out fine. So we're just going to go forward and see what happens So I'm actually going to go to the top and see if I can grab onto it and see if I can get to come through this hole here and if that would be easier.
Alright, so this hole down here looks to be a little bit too tight to get this AC compressor up out of here. So, what I'm going to end up doing is taking... I'm going to take the radiator fan out of here which I think should be pretty easy.
I'm going to try to leave the lines, the coolant lines connected and probably just remove this this air intake line here and then get the fans out. So I'll show y'all how that goes. Alright, so far what I've done is taken this wire harness that was running in front of these fans right here and just disconnected it from each area there.
there all on there and there was two screws holding this on here and to unplug the fans themselves I just took my knee in those pliers and you can grab it like that straight out. So for this situation it does look like it's gonna be easier to take off this this radiator hose and since this radiator does not have a lot of coolant in it because it's leaking out we're going to be able to disconnect that without any coolant leaking out otherwise you are going to lose some coolant when you disconnect this line right here so we're going to go ahead and get that disconnection so this thing can come out. Alright, so this radiator is actually in terrible condition. Part of the line just broke up when disconnecting the radiator hose.
It just pretty much crumbles. So anyway, I hope it's good enough to hold until they're ready to replace this radiator because I did tell them about it previously. But anyway, we're going to continue on getting this radiator fan out of here. Alright so here we are we have it out now and Yeah, pretty straight forward. The issue with this compressor was that it had power going to it, but the clutch would not engage.
So that's why we're actually replacing this compressor. So let's go ahead and get this out of the way, and we'll move on to the new compressor. all right so i got the two caps off of this new ac compressor here and as soon as i took off this one oil exploded out and this compressor comes with seven ounces of oil in it which is way too much for this vehicle so we're going to be running right about three and a half ounces. So what I'm gonna be doing is draining all of this out of here and I have an eight ounce bottle and I'm gonna put in almost half of the eight ounce bottle.
But for now, we're just gonna drain this out and then we'll pour the correct amount in. So here we go. Alright, so this is an 8 ounce bottle.
So it's about half full right now. It's about right there, a little bit under half full. So we're going to go ahead and add this oil right here to this and see exactly how much was in the compressor. all right so it looks to be right around about looks like that was almost for about four and a half ounces of oil that was in there because now it's full so there still looks to be oil inside of this compressor it's not completely empty so we're gonna add about that much oil back into this compressor and call it good.
And that's going to be right around about three, we're going to put in about three ounces. Alright, so before I put this compressor back down there, I'm going to be replacing the two O-rings on the two lines running to the compressor. So we're just going to take my little hook tool. That's one of them.
Alright, so we found our two O-rings closest to the same size. We're just going to go ahead and put these on. That should be good.
And then for this one. Alright. all right so we're gonna get everything done on this compressor get everything put back in the reverse order of what we did and then we're gonna move on to the dryer tube and the expansion valve back there in the back so we'll be right back Alright, so now we have the AC compressor completely installed and have everything back hooked up next we're going to be Installing this dryer tube right here and in order to get to it I think what I'm going to be doing is removing this grill right here In order to do that, if your vehicle still has all of its parts on it, you're going to need to take loose these clips along the top.
And then if you reach in here, there are more clips that go around this thing and you should be able to pop this whole grill out of place. And I'll show you once I have this off. Alright, so now I have to grill off and what I need to do was just take my hand and push up on the bottom of these tabs all the way around.
And then this one I had to take a screwdriver. and push this side in in order to get it to pop out of that area there. And once I did that, this comes straight off. So now we have access to the dryer right here, and it looks like we're going to have to get access to a 10-millimeter bolt that's on the other side.
So in order to do that, we're going to take off these. Try to get this radiator mount off and in order to do that push on those these two tabs I believe. See if I can do this while holding the camera.
You just take these two tabs and pull them out and the radiator mount comes off. So we're going to do that to the other side and then we'll have access to put our hand down there in order to get that 10 millimeter out. Alright, so it was actually a 8mm screw and I'm going to, uh, 8mm bolt and I'm going to try to actually leave it in place and see if I can just take loose the 10mm that is down here at the bottom and see if I can just work it with that bracket still on instead of taking it completely off. Alright, so from the bottom I was able to take off this 10mm that holds the hoses on. And now I'm going to try to get the dryer tube out of here.
Also, there's an electrical connector right here at the top that has to be unplugged. So I'm going to do that now. Alright. So now I'm going to see if I can get this out of here.
All right, so it looks like the 8mm back here is going to have to be all the way taken out in order to get this off. There's the 8 millimeter and now the dryer tube is So now we have two o-rings down right there they need to be replaced and then we'll be able to put the dryer tube in after we swap over this sensor here. Alright, so now that those are on, I'm going to be taking this sensor off of the dryer here.
And that has an O-ring on it as well, so we're going to get a replacement from... Our pack to put a new o-ring on here and now we're going to remove this sprue So actually this already has the o-ring on it. So we're just going to use this o-ring and Move that over to the sensor Just like that And we're going to give that a little twist.
These don't have to be extremely tight at all. And that's good enough. So now we're going to switch our bracket over here and we're going to get ready to put this back in and the two caps got to come off the bottom. Alright, so now it's ready. So we're gonna put this in the same way we took it out.
So I'm gonna do that off camera and then we're gonna move on to the expansion valve. Alright, so now we have all that put back together. Now we're on to the expansion valve that is at the back right here. And in order to get to it, there is a cover.
Alright, so once you have the 10mm nut out of the way, there's this vacuum line that is attached to there, right here. And I just took that out of the way to give me a little bit of extra room to access the lines that are right. There. So there's a 10mm bolt in between the two screws, in between the two lines that has to come out in order for the lines to come off.
That's what I'm going to be taking loose now. What I just did there was I tucked that piece of fabric out of the way and you can see the 10mm nut right there that has to come out of the way. So now I'm going to take that loose and the extension valve should be behind there. We have a few more screws to take loose.
Alright, so once I took the 10mm nut out down there, all I had to do was wiggle the hoses and they popped out. But I also went ahead and disconnected a screw that was right there in order to create enough play for these hoses to wiggle back and forth. So, now... Now that I can kind of swing the hoses out of the way, now I'm going to be able to get to the expansion valve down that hole and I'm going to tell you all the sides of the Allen that's needed to pull those screws out of there.
Alright, so here is the expansion valve here. I have it out now. So these screws These screws right here are T sorry are Allen key size 25 I used a Torx bit one of these type Which was a 20 25. But anyway that's what you need in order to get those out now once all right so once i have the screws out of these two holes you can take a pair of pliers and actually pull this out by going right there and just pull it out i don't ever like like to go here here or down here because if for some reason you can't get this expansion valve out and you end up ruining the this part right here then you're gonna have to find a way to get this out now in this situation I was able to get get it out and it didn't find but there has been situations where I haven't been able to get the expansion valve out and I've had to put everything back together and just leave the original expansion valve in so that's why I'm really careful about damaging these areas right here just in case I cannot get these back get these out so anyway now I'm going to see if I can fish off the o-rings for the part that runs to the condenser in the dash and get those on and then put everything back together so I'll be right back Alright, so I have everything connected back there.
So that should be everything now. So we're going to go ahead and start filling up the system. And the system should hold about 18 ounces of this refrigerant. So that's a little bit less than two of these cans.
First, before we start dumping it in, we're going to put the gauge on it and try to listen for any type of leaks or anything like that. And if there's no leaks, then we just go ahead and fill it up. So I don't hear any leaks or anything like that so we're just going to go ahead and build the system and see what happens.
We should be able to get approximately a whole can in before needing to start the vehicle. And then we'll be able to start the vehicle and put the rest of it in. Alright, so it looks like I'm going to need to go ahead and start the vehicle.
So I'm going to move some of this stuff out of the way. Then we'll crank it up and continue on. Hello, I'm a gamer First hand right there, we're right around 37, but it still needs more than just a second.
The line is pretty much ice cold right now on both sides. So that's a good sign that it will be working the way it should. And we're just monitoring right now.
So we're still within a good range on here. And now I'm just monitoring how many ounces is still left in the can. We're almost where we need to be. Working great.
I'm not going to be up the right amount. So, that. Man, that's gonna be... I'm gonna check the inside of the vehicle, but I believe that's gonna be it.
The easy lines right here are... As cold as you are pretty much ice cold. That means it's gonna be inside the vehicle, it's gonna be cold as well. We'll just go ahead and check that out.
yeah and it's cold in here so yeah that's pretty much gonna be it so anyway I hope this video was helpful anyway if it was please give this video a thumbs up and if you have any questions or comments please leave them below and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can thanks for watching have a great day