Done this dozens of times on different makes and models... when you have enough practice, most american makes with a behind the dash evap can be done without taking the steering wheel column, or the dashboard, out of the car (the column does have to be unbolted and lowered). You just have to make enough room on the right side for the HVAC box to come out. Also, I would recommend spreading a tarp or big towel over the carpet right before you take it out, so that when you move it around, any coolant spills from the heater core, or a/c oil from the evap core, don't find their way onto the carpet, leaving stains and bad odors on it. The guy did a great job, though it did seem like a first time on this particular model for him, given all that fumbling and pulling at the console at the beginning.
For this particular vehicle, since the evaporator core enters the side of the airbox it can be removed without having to remove and disassemble the whole airbox. The heater core would require those extra steps to access. The Daimler-designed Jeeps are variant-specific for just about everything (read: two Jeeps of the same model and year may be slightly different in their construction) so your model might require airbox dismantling.
This is going to help me a lot and I'm glad it's my moms truck and not mine!!!? I have a 1987 bronco and it's so much easier to work on than this damn jeep!! But it's been great to my family and moms!!! So I will fix it even though it's a nightmare!!!💯🔨🏈🎼👍🏻🍀❤️💡🙏🐟just long time to get to one thing !!! Damn jeep!!!
Just the labor for the evaporator core alone, not including any other parts or the labor to install them (e.g., evac/recharge time, refrigerant, etc.) is 10 hours. This job can run upwards of $1,500 in some areas, strictly because of the labor costs. Gotta love those Daimler redesigns... :-/
I am having my 2007 Jeep Liberty's Evaporator core replaced tomorrow to the tune of just short of $1200 thankfully this includes the evaporator but still in my opinion too much money for what 15 years ago was a 1 to 2 hour fix. Got to have cold AC in Arkansas in the summer though.
Put these videos in your customers' waiting room! I'm fitting an aftermarket evap now in a Saab 900, way easier than the Jeep, but the tubes don't match up very well. Is there a way to bend them? Would a propane torch help? Thanks!
We didn't record the airbox part of the process for this video, but they generally follow a clamshell design. The one big thing to watch out for are the air doors - these will often have small nubs and drive pins that poke through holes in the airbox casing, and can be trapped and broken off if they slip out of position during reassembly. So, take your time, don't force anything, and watch for those air doors.
I had a guy do my 2006 jeep grand Cherokee and what he did was remover the WHOLE dash without removing the sterring wheel or the radio.took it out it one piece and replace the evap while the dash was out the car.only took him 4 hrs.
Patience is all that is required. You can open the HVAC and just wash the evaporator most of the time. Few screwdrivers and a socket set and you've solved your poor air flow problem for free. If you do it yourself you can wash all the ducts out and clean up behind the dash and under the console to restore a good smell to your car.
Best left to professionals? While I agree with that part of the video (@0.43), I was humored to see how many times the "professional" tried to pull up the center console, only to realize there were still more bolts/nuts/clips to undo . . . seems like an experienced professional would know where they all are. Now, all that said, it does seem that the automotive engineers could set up the design of the vehicle in such a manner that getting to the heater core and/or evaporator core wasn't such a hassle. I did a heater-core replacement on a 1983 Buick Park Avenue several years back, and it was a comparative breeze -- job was done from under the hood, less than two hours from start to finish, and it was the first time I had ever done a heater core replacement. I'm visiting this video today because I now find I must disassemble the entire dash (and drop the steering) of my 1998 Dodge Ram just to replace a leaking heater core.
Actually, it's not uncommon for the information from the manufacturer to leave off or leave out details such as the number and locations of the fasteners. A simple tug tells where an item is still attached, and from there the hunt for that hidden screw begins.
OneSourceAutomotive OK, I understand that. However, this is supposed to be an "experienced" professional, not merely someone who picked up a service manual. The guy did it sort of like I, a non-profesisonal would do it -- keep trying things until I got it.
Bubba Davis You'd be _utterly amazed_ how often things like tugging at a panel to see where it's attached is precisely the correct path to its safe removal, and how often that happens in dealerships even with technicians that are very experienced with a narrow range of vehicles (as contrasted with us, an independent shop that works on a broad range of vehicles).
I do my own repairs, too. I understand the concept of trying to find all the fasteners. It's just that the video is supposed to be of a true professional doing the job, not an occasional hobbyist.
Bubba Davis Brikster00 i agree with you 100%... Bubba definitely has no clue of the definition of a processional is an has time to waste on worthless criticism... OneSourceAutomotive you guys rock and thanks for taking the time for these informative PROFESSIONAL!!!! videos... Keep them coming..
OMG...remind me never to buy a jeep cherokee! Thats ridiculous....3 bolts to take the glove box out and you access to the evaporator core right there under the passenger dash...1990 Honda Accord baby...that's why i'll never sell it!
I have the dash off (waiting for the weekend) and now going to take apart the HVAC assembly. The factory service manual is saying that the entire HVAC assembly must be removed to do the evaporator. So then I would have to drain cooling...etc.. This video is saying I'm able to access it not having to do that? Do you have that part in another video? Thanks for your time.
Video is wrong. Evap core is behind airbox, attached to the wall... The heater core slides sideways out of airbox, not the evap. Hope you have had yours fixed right.
Automakers design their products entirely around expedient manufacturing, and what makes a vehicle easy to work on is _not_ what makes it easy/quick to assemble. To that end, in many vehicles the entire HVAC air handler is preassembled elsewhere and simply slipped in and bolted to the firewall during vehicle assembly, after which point the entire dash goes in over it (also as a unit in many cases). Daimler-era Chrysler/Dodge products are almost universally annoying to work with as far as AC issues are concerned.
On most modern Jeeps (and especially so for the Mercedes-designed ones when Daimler and Chrysler were partnered) the entire steering column does have to be detached and removed, yes.
not true theres a way to remover the dash completely with removing the sterring wheel or the radio.had a guy remove it complete and much easier job.took him 4 hrs
i already change the air housing distribuitor, and i put everything together,and i turn on the air conditioner but something is wrong because is not working y try the heater and is the same thing nothing!
In my opinion this is not an instructional video. These guys are poor professional mechanics on this type of job. The video is way too speeded up and there is no verbal direction. Loose the music. it distracts more than helps. Do not waste your time watching this.
Note the warnings at 0:40. This video was _not_ intended to encourage a do-it-yourselfer to attempt because _it's not a repair that is suitable for DIY_ unless you have sufficiently extensive experience, the required specialized equipment, and proper certifications as required in your area. The video is thus _not_ intended to be instructional in the how-to sense, but instead in the why-you-shouldn't sense.
OneSourceAutomotive why limit ourselfs, anyone can easily do this with proper instructions. If DIY was not the intention of the video, then why make it.
Most people can't even properly inflate a tire, that's why you see them with those green caps on the valve stems... This is definately NOT a DIY job. If you need help understanding what it takes to remove a dashboard and all trim you are YEARS away from being able to do an evaporator core job properly. This involves removing airbags which is something no DIY "mechanic" should ever even think about attempting.
@@kg4boj Green caps just means they have nitrogen in their tires. May wanna re-educate yourself. Also...taking an airbag out is simple...unplug...just be careful with lay it somewhere with no sunlight/heat. Done.
@@Steve-ib4wq It's a good thing you don't work on cars... You haven't a clue what you are talking about. Green valve stem covers are a label for idiots, it means this goofball pays for a warranty on the air pressure inside his tire and he is open game for upsells... As far as airbags go, again you don't just "unplug" it. Sunlight isn't going to do dick to one either. There is a disarming procedure you must do to all vehicles starting with pulling the battery for 10 minutes. Airbag computers are EXTREMELY sensitive to any kind of wiring disconnect be it intentional or accidental, that's what they are supposed to do, if you open circuit an airbag computer without discharging the airbag's computer capacitors first... Not only could you set the airbag off but you will often cause fatal faults in the airbag computer that are NOT resettable!, once you disarm everything you have to make sure that the airbags are self shunting, If they don't have self shunting connectors or the connectors have been cut or damaged... you must shunt them manually... Then verify the clockspring is locked in place properly... Yeah... People definately don't need to be playing around with their airbag systems on their own. You think you know how to work on them but you really don't have a clue.
So maybe not a great idea having the help blindly install what he has not disassembled, unsupervised, He has no idea of the assembling sequence and probably covered up some important fasteners,not to mention vacuum and elect connectors. Looks like you threw out the manual on this one.Should have followed it's instructions. LOL How many hand fulls of homeless fasteners or should I say displaced fasteners , did you end up with?The headlights don't mysteriously somehow control how cold she blows now ,do they? Yep Done right in the good ole USA..
An interesting thought, but, no, the "help" only helped with parts that were bulky enough to require two people to safely manipulate, which in this job's case was the dash assembly. No fasteners were left behind, and the finished vehicle showed no obvious signs of having even been worked on as the Technician likes to lay out fasteners so that the each screw goes back into the same hole from whence it came. I like your comment about the headlights controlling the temperature though, that was amusing, but no, nothing was left off, left out, misconnected, or left disconnected; the vehicle left the shop in perfect working order with regard to HVAC and dashboard functionality. The "help" was also watching the whole thing - he's the camera operator - and is also an experienced Technician himself. He was basically staying out of the way until called in to assist, so he wasn't coming into the process blindly. In auto repair two's often a crowd but there are times when one needs an extra pair of hands. We've done many dash-pull evaporator core replacements over the years, and we're pretty good at 'em. The worst ones (in terms of both cost and complexity) are almost always Chrysler products...
Actually, this video has two benefits: one, it shows one example of a job that is not at all suited for DIY and should be best left to professionals; and two, it shows why the job costs what it costs to have professionals do it.
Done this dozens of times on different makes and models... when you have enough practice, most american makes with a behind the dash evap can be done without taking the steering wheel column, or the dashboard, out of the car (the column does have to be unbolted and lowered). You just have to make enough room on the right side for the HVAC box to come out. Also, I would recommend spreading a tarp or big towel over the carpet right before you take it out, so that when you move it around, any coolant spills from the heater core, or a/c oil from the evap core, don't find their way onto the carpet, leaving stains and bad odors on it. The guy did a great job, though it did seem like a first time on this particular model for him, given all that fumbling and pulling at the console at the beginning.
For a Ford Fusion 2014 do u have to take doors out?
Doing same fix for my Son's 2003 Ford Focus -- with the evaporator behind the dash. Quoted price: $1650 -- but needed for these Virginia summers.
My technician just did one today, terrible job to do! never seen such a mess, he got it back together though and it all works!!
Damn... and i thought this would be as simple as changing the air filter haha Thank guys for your video!!
+Andres Quintanilla So simple even a highly-trained technician can do it! (While complaining about hideous engineering the _entire stinking time_...)
For this particular vehicle, since the evaporator core enters the side of the airbox it can be removed without having to remove and disassemble the whole airbox. The heater core would require those extra steps to access. The Daimler-designed Jeeps are variant-specific for just about everything (read: two Jeeps of the same model and year may be slightly different in their construction) so your model might require airbox dismantling.
It's the other way around! Heater slides sideways out of airbox... But evap core is behind the airbox!
That's a hard 10 hour day, and even that assumes everything works when you put it back together. Don't envy anyone having to do that.
This is going to help me a lot and I'm glad it's my moms truck and not mine!!!? I have a 1987 bronco and it's so much easier to work on than this damn jeep!! But it's been great to my family and moms!!! So I will fix it even though it's a nightmare!!!💯🔨🏈🎼👍🏻🍀❤️💡🙏🐟just long time to get to one thing !!! Damn jeep!!!
Just the labor for the evaporator core alone, not including any other parts or the labor to install them (e.g., evac/recharge time, refrigerant, etc.) is 10 hours. This job can run upwards of $1,500 in some areas, strictly because of the labor costs.
Gotta love those Daimler redesigns... :-/
I am having my 2007 Jeep Liberty's Evaporator core replaced tomorrow to the tune of just short of $1200 thankfully this includes the evaporator but still in my opinion too much money for what 15 years ago was a 1 to 2 hour fix. Got to have cold AC in Arkansas in the summer though.
Put these videos in your customers' waiting room! I'm fitting an aftermarket evap now in a Saab 900, way easier than the Jeep, but the tubes don't match up very well. Is there a way to bend them? Would a propane torch help? Thanks!
We didn't record the airbox part of the process for this video, but they generally follow a clamshell design. The one big thing to watch out for are the air doors - these will often have small nubs and drive pins that poke through holes in the airbox casing, and can be trapped and broken off if they slip out of position during reassembly. So, take your time, don't force anything, and watch for those air doors.
I had a guy do my 2006 jeep grand Cherokee and what he did was remover the WHOLE dash without removing the sterring wheel or the radio.took it out it one piece and replace the evap while the dash was out the car.only took him 4 hrs.
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im wondering if they have instructional videos on this
Patience is all that is required. You can open the HVAC and just wash the evaporator most of the time. Few screwdrivers and a socket set and you've solved your poor air flow problem for free. If you do it yourself you can wash all the ducts out and clean up behind the dash and under the console to restore a good smell to your car.
i'm a tech at a nissan dealer and did an entire assembly replacement.. much easier but it was so time consuming
Best left to professionals? While I agree with that part of the video (@0.43), I was humored to see how many times the "professional" tried to pull up the center console, only to realize there were still more bolts/nuts/clips to undo . . . seems like an experienced professional would know where they all are.
Now, all that said, it does seem that the automotive engineers could set up the design of the vehicle in such a manner that getting to the heater core and/or evaporator core wasn't such a hassle. I did a heater-core replacement on a 1983 Buick Park Avenue several years back, and it was a comparative breeze -- job was done from under the hood, less than two hours from start to finish, and it was the first time I had ever done a heater core replacement. I'm visiting this video today because I now find I must disassemble the entire dash (and drop the steering) of my 1998 Dodge Ram just to replace a leaking heater core.
Actually, it's not uncommon for the information from the manufacturer to leave off or leave out details such as the number and locations of the fasteners. A simple tug tells where an item is still attached, and from there the hunt for that hidden screw begins.
OneSourceAutomotive OK, I understand that. However, this is supposed to be an "experienced" professional, not merely someone who picked up a service manual. The guy did it sort of like I, a non-profesisonal would do it -- keep trying things until I got it.
Bubba Davis You'd be _utterly amazed_ how often things like tugging at a panel to see where it's attached is precisely the correct path to its safe removal, and how often that happens in dealerships even with technicians that are very experienced with a narrow range of vehicles (as contrasted with us, an independent shop that works on a broad range of vehicles).
I do my own repairs, too. I understand the concept of trying to find all the fasteners. It's just that the video is supposed to be of a true professional doing the job, not an occasional hobbyist.
Bubba Davis Brikster00 i agree with you 100%... Bubba definitely has no clue of the definition of a processional is an has time to waste on worthless criticism... OneSourceAutomotive you guys rock and thanks for taking the time for these informative PROFESSIONAL!!!! videos... Keep them coming..
AMAZING !!! How did he remember allll those connections to reassemble ? Great Performance :+)
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@Alexander Armani yup, have been using flixzone} for months myself =)
@Alexander Armani Definitely, been using flixzone} for months myself =)
what great work, do you know if this is the same procedure for a 08 highlander? and what estimated evaporator replacement cost should I expect?
OMG...remind me never to buy a jeep cherokee! Thats ridiculous....3 bolts to take the glove box out and you access to the evaporator core right there under the passenger dash...1990 Honda Accord baby...that's why i'll never sell it!
How many guesses does it take to get a center console off?
I have the dash off (waiting for the weekend) and now going to take apart the HVAC assembly. The factory service manual is saying that the entire HVAC assembly must be removed to do the evaporator. So then I would have to drain cooling...etc.. This video is saying I'm able to access it not having to do that? Do you have that part in another video? Thanks for your time.
Video is wrong. Evap core is behind airbox, attached to the wall... The heater core slides sideways out of airbox, not the evap. Hope you have had yours fixed right.
Cool video ... Understand the $1500 dealership charge
Wonders why manufacturers aren't making it easier to get to... This is painful to watch
Automakers design their products entirely around expedient manufacturing, and what makes a vehicle easy to work on is _not_ what makes it easy/quick to assemble. To that end, in many vehicles the entire HVAC air handler is preassembled elsewhere and simply slipped in and bolted to the firewall during vehicle assembly, after which point the entire dash goes in over it (also as a unit in many cases). Daimler-era Chrysler/Dodge products are almost universally annoying to work with as far as AC issues are concerned.
affane78 After watching this, I'm selling the car.
is the same on 2010 jeep liberty? if you need to remove the dash,you need to remove the steering wheel?
On most modern Jeeps (and especially so for the Mercedes-designed ones when Daimler and Chrysler were partnered) the entire steering column does have to be detached and removed, yes.
not true theres a way to remover the dash completely with removing the sterring wheel or the radio.had a guy remove it complete and much easier job.took him 4 hrs
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do you have a website one could go to to see this way done?
i already change the air housing distribuitor, and i put everything together,and i turn on the air conditioner but something is wrong because is not working y try the heater and is the same thing nothing!
How can i fix my evaporator in my escape 2015
Like the tune ...who is it
How much money is a job like this
In my opinion this is not an instructional video. These guys are poor professional mechanics on this type of job. The video is way too speeded up and there is no verbal direction. Loose the music. it distracts more than helps. Do not waste your time watching this.
Note the warnings at 0:40. This video was _not_ intended to encourage a do-it-yourselfer to attempt because _it's not a repair that is suitable for DIY_ unless you have sufficiently extensive experience, the required specialized equipment, and proper certifications as required in your area. The video is thus _not_ intended to be instructional in the how-to sense, but instead in the why-you-shouldn't sense.
OneSourceAutomotive why limit ourselfs, anyone can easily do this with proper instructions. If DIY was not the intention of the video, then why make it.
Most people can't even properly inflate a tire, that's why you see them with those green caps on the valve stems... This is definately NOT a DIY job. If you need help understanding what it takes to remove a dashboard and all trim you are YEARS away from being able to do an evaporator core job properly. This involves removing airbags which is something no DIY "mechanic" should ever even think about attempting.
@@kg4boj Green caps just means they have nitrogen in their tires. May wanna re-educate yourself. Also...taking an airbag out is simple...unplug...just be careful with lay it somewhere with no sunlight/heat. Done.
@@Steve-ib4wq It's a good thing you don't work on cars... You haven't a clue what you are talking about. Green valve stem covers are a label for idiots, it means this goofball pays for a warranty on the air pressure inside his tire and he is open game for upsells...
As far as airbags go, again you don't just "unplug" it. Sunlight isn't going to do dick to one either. There is a disarming procedure you must do to all vehicles starting with pulling the battery for 10 minutes. Airbag computers are EXTREMELY sensitive to any kind of wiring disconnect be it intentional or accidental, that's what they are supposed to do, if you open circuit an airbag computer without discharging the airbag's computer capacitors first... Not only could you set the airbag off but you will often cause fatal faults in the airbag computer that are NOT resettable!, once you disarm everything you have to make sure that the airbags are self shunting, If they don't have self shunting connectors or the connectors have been cut or damaged... you must shunt them manually... Then verify the clockspring is locked in place properly...
Yeah... People definately don't need to be playing around with their airbag systems on their own. You think you know how to work on them but you really don't have a clue.
I spent 13 minutes of my lifetime expecting to watch how to remove the evaporator core and these guys skipped that part.....great !!
Video is wrong, evap core is NOT accessible without removing the airbox located in front of it.
Me too
Great work bro, guys this vehicle model is not easy unlike the LAREDO Grand Cherokee less harder than this. Check out my work guys. Thanks
yeah if that bissh goes bye bye the chrysler bucket hits the stealership
I gave you a nolike .. what car is it?
2005 G Caravan just got a quote for $1500 to replace the evaporator. I guess I;m SOOL.
$900 to replace my expansion valve on my 04 galant I'm gonna do it myself to save a bunch and the parts are super cheap
And the customer will blame the mechanic when this job costs $1000, instead of Chrysler.
how much it cost
Yeah, GLWT... :-D
Challenge here is not to have any annoying ggrrrrrrrrrrrrr sound due to loose parts after separating every thing
Now I Understand why it cost me $540.00 for the labor.
THAT WAS CHEEP
Yeah man! I paid $900! 🤔
So maybe not a great idea having the help blindly install what he has not disassembled, unsupervised, He has no idea of the assembling sequence and probably covered up some important fasteners,not to mention vacuum and elect connectors. Looks like you threw out the manual on this one.Should have followed it's instructions. LOL How many hand fulls of homeless fasteners or should I say displaced fasteners , did you end up with?The headlights don't mysteriously somehow control how cold she blows now ,do they? Yep Done right in the good ole USA..
An interesting thought, but, no, the "help" only helped with parts that were bulky enough to require two people to safely manipulate, which in this job's case was the dash assembly. No fasteners were left behind, and the finished vehicle showed no obvious signs of having even been worked on as the Technician likes to lay out fasteners so that the each screw goes back into the same hole from whence it came. I like your comment about the headlights controlling the temperature though, that was amusing, but no, nothing was left off, left out, misconnected, or left disconnected; the vehicle left the shop in perfect working order with regard to HVAC and dashboard functionality.
The "help" was also watching the whole thing - he's the camera operator - and is also an experienced Technician himself. He was basically staying out of the way until called in to assist, so he wasn't coming into the process blindly. In auto repair two's often a crowd but there are times when one needs an extra pair of hands.
We've done many dash-pull evaporator core replacements over the years, and we're pretty good at 'em. The worst ones (in terms of both cost and complexity) are almost always Chrysler products...
What a miserable job. Must cost a fortune.
I just got quoted $720 ...smh
Seriously how do you skip the one part that this video is supposed to show. What a huge waste of time.
I'll give you $100.00 to do mine. Easy money!
OMFG that would SUCK to have to do that shit. And put it back together correctly. DAMN
no benefit from this video
Actually, this video has two benefits: one, it shows one example of a job that is not at all suited for DIY and should be best left to professionals; and two, it shows why the job costs what it costs to have professionals do it.
@@OneSourceAutomotive Exactly. I'm going to have to shell cash on this one...