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41 hud

Wound up being the new condenser I installed. Put the old one back in, started right up. Jim

Tallent R

One of those new Chinese one frome parts store I bet
They aint worth the time putting them in
Roger

Jon B

My motto, when a car isn't running right: "it's always the condenser."

Geoff C., N.Z.

Always go back and look at what has been done that could have caused the problem. And the old adage is still true, if is still working, leave it there. I've had the same coil and condensor in my Essex, and Jet, for over 40 years.

J Spencer

I have run into a few bad condensers over the years as a mechanic - OOPS Automotive repair Technician nowadays. Back in the late sixties and seventies right or wrong when we did a tune up we didn't always replace the condenser but still listed it on the bill. Customers would question why we didn't insall a new condenser so it was easier just to add it to the bill instead of trying to explain
the failure rate of new condensers.
I believe the cost was only a buck or so back then I was not ahappy camper after doing a tune up, not having it start and then have to put the old condenser back in.

Jim Spencer
WNY/Ontario Chapter

TwinH

Have had bad ones here too. A new Napa one cost me a pair of expensive new mufflers
on my 63 Chevy Belair wagon soon after I got it. It wouldn't fail till it got warm though. At freeway speed it killed the fire and filled my pretty new mufflers with fuel before it fired one more time. The KABOOM was epic as was the metal grinding on
the road while I headed for the shoulder.Looked like someone had put hand grenades inside them...

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