MULTIPLE YORK PACKAGE UNIT'S NOT COOLING 

"no wonder that one's missing, it's in my hand. Duh" Holy moly I feel that one 😂

Those units have definitely lived their life, and they’re still working decently well considering how old they are. They sure don’t build things of the same quality that they once did. Thank you for another awesome video Chris! I’m learning more and more from you with every new video I watch. Keep up the great work! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

This old piece of junk is still working better than the new pieces of junk one third of its age...

you know, sometimes the engineer part of my brain thinks i could make an absolutely ballin refridgeration unit and then i see these absolute tanks that are still happily running and i get humbled. great work as always!

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Those units absolutely suck to replace the heat exchanger...if you haven't replaced one...count yourself lucky. They are simple units in form and function...probably why it's lasted so long. Very nicely done as always Chris.

Calling that unit old is an understatement, it is very rusted. Suggesting it was either a cheaper model, or perhaps 80s. Either way, I'm unsure. However, I agree with the rest of the comments, this thing has lived its life and done well.

Preventative Maintenance is always Money well spent but those Paying your Bill don’t look at it the same way. Keep up the Strong 💪 Efforts servicing customers.👍

Lock tight is great for vibration issues. Things don't tend to vibrate off when they are secured with Lock tight.

Another awesome video man! Thank you for sharing!

Was hoping I'd see one of these units in one of your videos. I have 2 of them on my building and it was built in the late 80s so I'm pretty sure they're original since we've been here since 94 and we've never replaced them. One of them finally needs to be replaced but the other unit works like a champ. I have a Rheem and Trane on another building, those are about 10 years old and have needed more work this this unit has since 94.

I want the old intro back please 👉🏻👈🏻😌

The man the legend

If you can't get any Electrical Conduit that will fit the space, try a piece of PEX water pipe...the 1/2" PEX pipe is big enough to take a single length of 14/2 ROMEX house wire so the individual wires for one of your Fan Motors will fit with room to spare with little to no chance of overheating the wires...that will keep the wires away from the blades as well as protect them from rubbing out on the fan grill...

York made good units and they seem to have stood the test of time. I think Ford used York compressors in their cars many years ago and I heard they could be rebuilt.

You're saying about the high subcool (always with the discharge), but I see the same on my 2-3 ton condensers, too. I'm used to seeing 20 to 30 degrees of subcool........but that's when I'm hitting the 100 to 105 ODT range. The condensers are from 2005 and 10 SEER. Eh? Fuck it. If it rejects heat, it rejects heat.

I have 3 Yorks units on a building I work at . Plus I keep the fully cleaned, oiled, belts , coils cleaned, I also buy new replacement parts . I also listen to the units for any problems. I love your RU-vid channel I learned many things, on the different units you repair, Thanks

A trick i do to remove really stuck fan blades off bad motors is cut the shaft and drill out the shaft, never couldn't get one off doing that hardest part is drilling the hole dead center of the shaft.

Once you replace the units sell them and label them as true vintage hvac equipment and people will instantly buy these because they like buying and keeping or restoring old things

Those older units really out live the new units. Some the new units come flat or don’t even last a year before something major happens.

Boy, this brings back memories... The McDonald's I was a maintenance man at had these York units & every week I'd pull & clean the air filters (They had the type of air filters that were washable -- Just spray 'em down with degreasing solution, rinse 'em out, let 'em dry then put them back in) and clean the condenser coils. Every year we did PM on them where we'd take 'em apart, clean them out thoroughly & put them back together. If anything malfunctioned, we called in a local HVACR tech to fix it.

I agree with you, those old Yorks aren't going to last too many more California summers. You bought them some time, but replacement is inevitable. Full refurbishment, when factoring in parts and labor (assuming you can find all the parts) would probably be close to replacement cost. The phrase "diminishing returns" once again rears its ugly head... I fully expect you to experience more "Band-Aid Solutions" in the future. Cali's new $20 minimum wage for fast food workers will have such a financial impact to restaurants' operating costs that your clients will HAVE to cut corners to stay solvent. Sadly, this also means an increased potential of having to troubleshoot and/or repair work done by untrained/unlicensed individuals ("I know a guy that could fix that for ya much cheaper!").

I’ve been customers with rental properties and refused to work on old units with multiple issues and they don’t want to pay to replace them! I don’t want to assume responsibility for units I’ve never serviced in really bad condition

Just putting this out there for anyone starting in the business... Just because you turn off the disconnect switch DOES NOT MEAN you don't have power going to the unit. In my very green days, I turned off the disconnect thinking I was safe to work on the unit, but heard my schooling in my ear about "always check for power". I checked inside the unit just before I put my hands in there and had 460v. This was because the monkeys that were there before me straight bypassed the disconnect inside the disconnect switch. To say I was upset doesn't come near what I was feeling in that moment. Always check for power.

When using generic fan motors I like to use a piece of 3/4 pvc to run the wires through if there is no existing conduit. I normally fasten the pvc to the guard with zip ties, but even when those break off the pvc holds itself in place. Those plastic insulators around the reversing wire terminals have a habit of cracking off in the sun and shorting out, especially on roofs with no tree cover.

loving that intro music

love your videos man, keep up the good work!

Good video Chris. Most customers are usually happy with JUST getting it fixed. Like an old car, as long as it starts and runs, they don’t care about economy, emissions or whether it has satnav, as long as it gets them from a to b. Them old units still blowing cold ish air? Jobs a good one. All the best.

Great job Chris old units are good for business especially when customer want change them out. You know you will be working on them. it is what it is. lol

Great video. Thank you for sharing. Have a nice weekend

Yeah this time of year is tricky.. need an extra chiller during the day here.

Corporations frequently have policies that require doing the same thing over and over again which in the long run costs more. There should be a spread sheet where it determines the time to replace rather then fix. Every motor or compressor has a mean time before failure. As you get close to that MTBF you schedule a replacement it should be on a calendar. This failed approach to management looses money.

Am I wrong or did you start a more step by step process approach on your videos. I'm loving it!

Shocked it wasn't due to low charge, that unit is beat to all hell but god damn it just wont quit

York rooftops heat exchangers are money I have a customer with a bar and instead of replacing the rtu they want me to keep installing more ductless splits

Thanks for the sunday drops. Its my Monday and it makes work sooooo much better.

Y1 Wy isn't it cooling 👌 great words 👏

Great video! I work on a lot of those same York units.

I use electrical conduit to protect the wires then zip tie it to the shroud.

Jaw-dropping!!, you didn't reclaim and weigh in the charge. You're slacking!!

I’ve worked on one of these before for PM work and on my last visit, on the blower wheel shaft, i spied grease zerts🧐. Never saw them before or was shown it has them.. just a quick eye out for the next one you come across

Another great job Chris

It's crazy how slow they look on video. Also it always looks like it runs backwards on video. Probably because some cameras run mirrored while others look normal.

You've got to give these old units some credit, by the visible condition they're real old and there obviously hasn't been a load of major, new parts fitted.

The intro music is from this music video. ELFL - Zero Gravity

120 nice and warm 🥵 uk so anything above 80 and i start to melt.😃

Yea the electrical section is usually about 5 to 6 inches at the most.

High superheat, high subcooling. I guess low mass flow through the metering device. High load with only moderate outdoor temp, plus some restriction.

Sadly most of the units I work on looks like those. We just have to bandaid them and move on. Very rarely will the customers accept our recommendations.

It's all about giving the customer the information so they can make an informed decision. And I hate that model of York. They've lived a great life time to go lol

Maybe the customer hopes the contactors kill a compressor so they can convince corporate to buy replacements 😉

I hate the design of York equipment I find its difficult to work on for no reason especially their electrical sections , the newer large units have a much larger electrical section but the smaller ones (10t or less) are still brutal

I'm buying that bag!

The pistons like to plug up on those units

Thank you very much for the amazing videos. I love to watch them. Your channel is like a criminal TV show, and I always want to know "who" the "killer" is. I have one question about capacitors for condenser motors. Seeing that this is a 3 phase unit, it wouldn't be better for the manufacturer to connect the motor as 3 phase. Then you will not need the capacitor. Also considering that the capacitor is next to the contactor, you don't save any cost on wires. Even with a capacitor it looks to me like it's more expensive. Radek PS: I know only 3 phase systems in Europe, don't know if it's similar in the US. 3 legs, each shifter by 120°.

I have actually gotten a condenser unit before and from the factory fan was wired incorrectly on a single phase unit 😮

thanks for the code i needed some new veto's. $40 savings vs veto's website

I see they added "stable volume" to video playback options. hopefully no more doing backflips over the chair when watching? 🤣 not so much here, but some across "the tube" have very extreme volume changes from quiet to blown out audio loud. lol

I'll use a piece of 1/2 or 3/4 pvc for conduit on those Condenser Fan Motor electrical connections where you can't find it from the dealer. Raintight works good too.

I like to use a small piece of liquid tight zip tied to the fan guard for the wires

Hey Chris, I had a question. I’m about to swap a 15 ton package unit in a roof and I have never done it. Would it be possible to make a video describing what all goes into it? 👍👍

You could actually use 1/2 inch electrical seal tite to replace the wire conduit going to the motor it is the same thing

Chris, I noticed that the return air temperature was very low on the first unit that you checked vitals on. The condenser approach was also at 0. Is it possible that the unit was just underperforming due to the cold conditions it was running in? I believe that if you had a higher load both indoor and outdoor, we might see better performance. For the second unit, I believe it looked better because the outside air temp had risen to 70.

If we could build equipment to last 30 years in the 1990s, todays stuff should last double that. Sadly the trend is opposite. Too many people have blinders on now, and replace working units all because of the green new scam. Great repairs Chris.. ❄️

EMS System Energy Management System System A bit of RAS Syndrome 🤣

Apart from being old, what was wrong with the units? You mentioned a few times it was junk (definitely looks it!) but what's actually wrong with it as it seems to be working? I'm not in this field so just curious to learn and have been loving your videos for ages now. Thank you!

You know what you could of done is the dead motor capacitor how 10uf and it good and replace the good motor but bad capacitor.

i mean if the unit is not discharging the heat at the condenser you wouldnt have a sub cooling not to high of a subcool so probably a restriction

I hate dealing with ems

What about the cooler you have in the van, is that also on TrueTechTools? Yeti, I think you said anyway, what's your review? Awesome videos!!

Yummmm

how is the condensor fan motor suppose to run with no cap hooked up?

Add a little gas. Pressure a little low

Hey Chris , I thought R to Y1 should be 0v as t-stat switch is closed , Y1 To C(x) should have 24v…or is that just with residential , I’m not familiar with commercial, thanks a lot man.

Question on the other unit that you replaced the entire unit. Roughly how much total time was that job to swap out the entire unit with the crane?

What iPad holder do you use, is it magnetic so you can stick it to the RTU? Also, ugh sometimes I think we are actually professional turd polishers, not technicians.

Just to let you know, I hate remote EMS controls. No local control.

The real problem is York

go pro with a band, it can go over a hat for hands free work

At some point all you're saving is the sheet metal because everything inside them needs to be replaced ... no real benefit to keep the old units going, unless maybe the new units have poor quality but I don't think that's the case.

You polish her well chris

Hey there Chris! Keep up the good work! I wanted to ask why you still use your smartphone to film? Why are you not using a GoPro(or another brand) with a belt from which you can film from you chest? Would be easier to work for you since you would have both hands free. Just a suggestion, dont get me wrong. 😄

What's the name of the song in the beginning I like it

I noticed on that first unit you had a 61 degree liquid line . Wonder if you had a restricted drier

UNIT'S = UNIT IS.

Mojave motors like MacOS Mojave

why dose the spare belt not fly up into the blower? 13:49

Those units are going to be late 1990s....like 97 or 98. Do you have a serial number?

" Polishing a Turd" is a term you use with your clients or just with your fan base?

They would be better off fixing those if the parts were built the same.

Do you charge the customer travel time? Is there a distance where overtime is cheaper than a second trip charge? I know it gets hard to work overtime, and on the hottest days, nearly impossible. Or is it just some customer policies that they won't pay for overtime?

What app is that that he uses when he gauges up?

Could have been a great trailer from 17:47 to 17:57

The main issue here is that you’re working on York brand equipment. I’ve always thought York was straight trash and a waste of money for anyone to purchase.

If there is no conduit left, I pull the condenser fan leads through 1/2" liquid tight and call it a day.

HVACR: You should consider replacing it Customer: So its dead HVACR: Well no but... Customer: So whats the issue lol so many times I have had this conversation with a customer. Just recently I had a customer with an off brand "Xtreme" power supply that tested bad and was failing. Not only that but its capacitors were making a hissing sound as well as the fan bearings were going out making a grinding sound. I informed him of this and he responded with, "I have had it for 10 years, hasnt failed me yet but I take it to you and all the sudden there is a problem?" I so badly wanted to respond with "You know what, you are right, after 10 years, it has earned 17 more days of life...(PTO) you are good." lol

To walk the road my forefathers walked.

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if a york unit was a food it is a *broken egg York*

What’s the name of the song on your new intro?