My New Trane is making a noise! but why?  

Good find! That wheel is done for sure. They are lucky it didn't break apart and throw a chunk into any other components.Looks like that housing can potently even be reused, if they want/need to. We go through a ton of zip ties cleaning up nonsense wire management, in the end it benefits you and the customer like you said. Regularly cleaning up wire management, makes finding electrical shorts a breeze when you know the common rubout spots for each model. Plus, it is a treat to come back to a unit you cleaned up, when you can easily trace wires and take amp draws. making your future service more efficient. Great knowledge here for sure, thanks for the video!

Great video, I had a 25ton Trane condensing unit installed a couple years ago and the fan motor brackets broke , fan blade went right into the micro channel coils. Not even a month old. Trane had to repair.

Had it happen to me, except it blew the wheel all to hell. The wiring....well...it hasn't ever gotten any better....slapping lipstick on a pig. Except AAON they seem to care a little bit better than the big 3 do. Another great video Steve-o...thanks for sharing

Steve-o doing what he do Nice job as usual ... Thx

Great job Steve has always.

I take care of a building with a pile of 15-25 ton Voyagers around the same age as yours there. They’ve been one problem after another. Lots of consecutive serial numbers so I suspect a manufacturing issue. Compressors, VFD’s, lots of blower assemblies. I just order a new wheel, shaft, and both bearings. I’m not wasting my time trying to save the shaft and bearings. It goes alot quicker that way. Another good video man.

Great Video. Thank you for sharing.

Another good catch, bet that was some serious racket up there when the pm guy were gettin close to it 😅,definitely can be nerve rackin down below as well. That was definitely manufacturers f'up. Thankx for the post

If you look hard enough you’ll always find issues. You’re killing it. Your company is lucky to have you as a tech

Interesting find on what was broken and what was going to break next. I assume you wrote up all the PM stuff that should be done and let them decide if they want it done? Then what about all the same PM stuff on all those other RTUs? Things are out of control: need super knowledgeable tradesmen, stuff corrected that wasn't done right at assembly time, and no one wants to pay for any of it.

Great video!

I was wondering were the music was coming from on the middle of roof until you showed the return 😂😂😂 great find Steve!

Another great video Steve. Thank you for the knowledge.

sweet, that must be one of those new Variable Vein blower wheels that self adjust with static pressure.

That fan does not look like an easy job to get out 😯 A few wiring issues and bad connections to sort out as Well 👍👍

Actually just found the exact same problem a week ago on a 4 year old voyager with a high static kit.

We had 20 something voyagers installed, about half with unaligned pulleys and one where the pulley flew off within the 1st year

They have all outsourced quality control jobs to the far east! Just give "BOB" in India a call and he can help with all that!

We installed 6 of those new Trane s 4 hrs out of town and when we came back found the blower wheel did the exact same thing and blew apart the spider and the wheel dropped. Luckily the belt blew off and didn’t make it worse

The blower wheel grenade

Bad quality is not just Trane/American Standard. It’s all the manufacturers are getting very sloppy putting these units together. Especially commercial package units

The fins on the wheels are getting lighter and lighter when installing it even if you rub the fins on the outside shroud the wheel becomes unbalanced and each revolution it cracks along the spot welds where it joins to the arbor plate then its just time before it wobbles enough to hit the sides of the shroud, saw a tech try to weld one up he thought he was top dog at fixing it i told him if it doesn’t shake the bearings to pieces it will just break again , plus you have unbalanced it further by adding weld weight to it, buy new and install properly and dint accept damaged replacement from oem either

Apparently you CAN stop a Trane! 🤣

On a building that big, who the F* sold them on rtu's? Should have been a chiller plant and ahu's

Wire ties = Cheap insurance

Guss what, you can STOP A TRANE !!! THEY ALL OUTSOURCE THE PARTS TO THE CHEAPEST BIDDER.

Horrible engineering and lousy quality control. All those rubouts in areas that could cost thousands in the aftermath. Assembly without aptitude

Quality sucks nowadays

Unsecured wires and crap, cheap parts. Factory issues all the way.