Leaking AC fitting
Yesterday I noticed what appears to be a tiny bit of oil (mostly an oil smudge) around one of the service connections for the auto AC. The oil seems to be leaking where the hose enters the crimped fi...
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MountainAir05 wrote:
It can if you can find someone who has a portable crimp tool and you have extra length to cut back. If it leaking oil, then its leaking refrigerant. You can also replace it with refrigerant copper and clamp it down all the way to the front, then put on brass brazed fitting at a greatly reduce price over that much hose. You can also have a 1+ foot hose assy made for the front, and I would use the flex hose back on the engine.
Thanks. I will likely be taking the coach to my local Cummins Coach Care shop so hope they will have a fix that let's me keep the existing hose. I do have enough slack in the hose to have some cut off to accommodate a new crimped fitting.
Replacing the hose with copper would be labor intensive, for sure. 42' rig and that hose is bundled into a mass of hoses, wires, air lines that run between the frame rails.
