Ted Cook provides a masterclass in empirical troubleshooting, proving that true technical mastery lies in the subtle precision of a fan blade's height. It is a refreshing reminder that real-world efficiency is achieved through hands-on nuance rather than abstract theory.
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Old Goodman AC unit wont stop
Added:Shake, rattle, and roll. Look at that.
I think that blade might be a little low.
This is going to fall. And there we go.
See what we got here.
Look how low that blade is. And it's running backwards.
See that?
>> It's not good.
>> Yeah, that might might be a little bit of an issue.
Trying to see why it's so low on the shaft.
And hopefully these reversing wires didn't get chewed up.
I'm going to have to open her up.
All right. So, I got my stick here.
See if I can stop it from going backwards and try to make it go forward.
Need better stick.
There we go.
Get you to flip that breaker on, will you?
>> Yeah.
It did not want to go forward.
Let's try that one more time.
I'm no longer.
All right. So, let's try one more time.
There we go.
So, we're blowing hot air up.
Let's give it a minute and see if we sweat. And we might not need nothing but a a motor or maybe even just a cap.
I can't believe that's blowing air out that well with that blade that low. How long's it been like this?
>> Uh probably 2 years since.
That is hard to believe.
Look how well that's blowing.
And how low that blade is.
Run cap bandit been here.
So, let's just make sure this little five isn't dead because I have seen them run backwards because of that.
What are you doing?
What you doing? Huh? Supervising.
That boy or a girl?
>> She's a girl. Yeah.
>> Yeah. She's a good dog.
>> Yeah, she's sweet.
dead as a doornail.
So, we may be able to just replace this cap and raise the blade up a little bit and do better for a little bit.
Ain't so sure I got what it takes to mount it like that, though. Look at that crap. That's jacked up.
That's a Mars USA and it's dead.
All right.
So, what we'll do is we'll change the big one to match and wire it back that way. This thing feels hot.
So, let's read it, too.
What are you sniffing for, girl?
Okay.
All we were running on this was the hermetic. It's at 28.
Let's check the fan.
Fid's dead.
Can't read it.
So, we're going to put a 30x5 on this.
see if it starts in the right direction.
Okay, so my plan of action here is to see if this 30x5 starts both components in the correct direction.
Oops.
Yellow is the hermetic on a Goodman.
And these two reds are the commons.
And then we don't need that one. We just need the solid brown for fan.
We'll cut that one off if it works.
All right, let's see what direction we go in now.
Oh, yeah.
So, now all we got to do is try to raise that blade a little bit.
It's a really nice blade.
Nothing like a junky old Goodman on a Sunday afternoon.
She's after something, man.
What you trying to get, huh?
She's got it in her mind. Something's in there. That That is a rink dink blade. Let's see. He didn't break these off.
I mean, it's not loose.
So, that's the height.
>> Yeah.
>> That he thought he could >> get away with.
>> Yep.
Because of those.
And these can be [snorts] greatly shortened.
done it yet.
Go a little bit lower.
The lower the better.
Limbo with the fan.
Should be good.
Disco.
All right.
What do you think, girl?
Screw short.
She ought to run now.
All right.
Heat.
Heat. Heat.
You know how it goes.
Doing pretty good. How about yourself?
That's right.
A little low.
That air is not real hot.
I think waking it up a little bit.
>> How old are those boys now?
>> Uh, six and seven. Yeah. Getting big.
Fill him up.
or something.
>> Oh, like a local like the criminal wreck of the league.
>> Yeah.
Be able to tackle us two hours, three days a week.
>> Yeah.
>> Two hour game on top of it.
>> Yeah.
>> They love it. So, >> I'm bet.
>> Yeah.
They're all boys and they love it.
Oh yeah, we're warming up out here. That means we're cooling down in there.
You ain't got no kind of gay app or nothing in there. Oh yeah, you got that Vivven thing.
>> Oh, no. I have Alarm.com.
Yeah, the same. But I have a thermostat that works with it. Yeah. It says it's 88 inside there. It's set to 78 right now.
>> That's not normally how high you >> No. No. I know. But I was just trying to >> get anything.
>> Exactly.
>> Yeah. We'll get it down 10° and then go from there.
>> You put it on 70 whatever now.
>> Yeah.
Let's uh let's go in there and see if she's running out some cool air.
Oh yeah, we're good.
Give it one last little shot.
Good.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat. Heat.
Heat.
Heat.
Okay. Okay, so that house belongs to um I guess you could call him an IT guy, security guy. He owns a little uh pretty dad gum good little security company.
And uh he's done all of our cameras, motion detectors at home the last two shops, everything. He's done a lot of friends work and all all of my friends, all my family, everybody uses him cuz he's awesome.
So, we're willing to work pretty hard on a Sunday for somebody that's important to you.
Um, that wasn't really much to that.
It's just a little bit. This might have, you know, butchered up by some cheap guy or something before before he had control of it, obviously.
So, we're going to put him in a new system pretty soon, switch it over to gas, get him fixed up. Hoping to do it in the off season, but got to keep him going, you know.
Can't leave him on zero.
Got a couple kids living there with him.
needs to needs to be chilling in there.
So, that old Goodman, man, she is pumping.
It had right at 20° delta.
Um, and that's with it being 88 in the house.
So, I'm pretty sure once it gets down in the low 80s and upper 70s, that air will get in the 50s and it'll start really cooling. So, he should be good to go.
Maybe we'll get some footage when we change that out. But either way about it, Sunday afternoon, I'm finished. So, I'm headed to the house. Thanks for watching.
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