A/c line

[2005redlly]

I was driving this morning and heard a loud noise. Pulled over and opened up the hood and saw the a/c line that goes over turbo to accumulator burned a hole in line. What's the best way to fix this issue?

Btw I thought I blew my truck up lol.

 

[Novak]

I was driving this morning and heard a loud noise. Pulled over and opened up the hood and saw the a/c line that goes over turbo to accumulator burned a hole in line. What's the best way to fix this issue?



Btw I thought I blew my truck up lol.

Recover, replace line, refill. If you don't have an
A/C vacuum I wouldn't touch it unless you are 100% sure she is bone dry

 

[Novak]

I was driving this morning and heard a loud noise. Pulled over and opened up the hood and saw the a/c line that goes over turbo to accumulator burned a hole in line. What's the best way to fix this issue?



Btw I thought I blew my truck up lol.

Also one time I was going down a two lane road with warehouses on both sides and lit her up and seen nothing but steam behind me and I thought she gave up the ghost and turns out my coolant line at the firewall blew off onto to my hot exhaust!

 

[SwitchBack]

Recover, replace line, refill. If you don't have an
A/C vacuum I wouldn't touch it unless you are 100% sure she is bone dry

Your a little late to recover... Replace the line pull vacuum and recharge.

 

[2005redlly]

Yea thanks. I'm talking about a better heat wrap or any others things people have tried. I just replaced the condenser first of June. Good thing I brought the 30lb bottle.

Looking under Xdp's heat control wrap for headers, I'm gonna try that. The place that put the turbo in put some kind of shiny wrap on it

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

Try and find a large hose shop, and see if they have any fire shield. It was designed for aircraft so in case there was a fire, the oil and fuel lines wouldn't get burned through. It's not cheap, but it WORKS!

 

[2005redlly]

What color is the fire shield? The stuff I ordered is suppose to with stand 2000 degrees.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

The actual aviation stuff is orange, but you can get it in alot of colors now. The last batch I got when I did my heater lines was grey. I know you can take a torch to the stuff long enough to turn it charred black, but the inside will still be cool enough to keep your hand inside of it. Otherwise thetes lots of different wraps like plug wire wrap pmug wires routed inside of headers, header wrap, and so on.