The Struggle is Real: A DIY Journey to Diagnose and Repair a Faulty Air Conditioning System

Tommy's struggles with his air conditioning system are well-documented, but it wasn't until he posted on Instagram that he received some much-needed help. The original post was half-joking, asking if anyone had an EC machine or could come out to diagnose the issue. However, someone named Austin hit up Tommy and offered to bring his mobile truck refrigeration and air conditioning equipment to try and fix the problem.

Austin's arrival marked a turning point in the diagnosis process, as he would be able to examine the system firsthand. The process began with a visit to Tommy's garage, where Austin was met with a sea of parts and components that had been stripped out during the troubleshooting process. As they surveyed the damage, it became clear that the issue lay with a faulty window switch.

The story behind the faulty switch is an interesting one. It appears that Tommy had attempted to repair the issue by adding freon, but in doing so, he may have inadvertently caused more harm than good. The problem was revealed when Austin noticed that the coolant reservoir was leaking, and further investigation revealed that the child safety switch had been left on, preventing the system from functioning properly.

The diagnosis process was not without its challenges, however. As Tommy disassembled the switch, it became clear that he knew very little about how the system worked. The resulting mess of springs, metal pieces, and other components made it difficult to determine which parts were supposed to go where. In a surprising twist, it emerged that Kenny had previously attempted to add freon to the system, but had failed.

As the repair process got underway, Tommy's reliance on Master Tom became clear. The video is filled with shots of Tommy asking Master Tom for advice and guidance, as he attempts to put the pieces back together. Despite his best efforts, it becomes apparent that Tommy has no idea how the system works, and that the solution will require a deeper understanding of the components involved.

In a surprising twist, Austin's arrival marked not only a turning point in the diagnosis process but also a comedic moment. The two are seen discussing the finer points of air conditioning systems, with Tommy playfully joking about being a "millennium man". Meanwhile, Master Tom is seen watching from the sidelines, no doubt amused by the exchange.

As the repair process continues, it becomes clear that the solution will require some outside expertise. In particular, Austin's truck refrigeration and air conditioning equipment proves to be essential in diagnosing the issue. The video concludes with Tommy awaiting Master Tom's return, armed with a new appreciation for the complexity of the system involved.

The story raises an interesting question: how many people out there have suffered similar fates? How often do issues like this arise in DIY repair attempts? As we watch Tommy navigate this challenge, it becomes clear that this is not just a personal struggle but also a cautionary tale about the importance of seeking outside expertise when faced with complex problems.

The aftermath of the repair has left Tommy with more questions than answers. He jokes about making Master Tom look like an idiot for letting him use his camera to film the video, and pokes fun at his own lack of knowledge regarding the system. Despite this, it's clear that he's learned a valuable lesson: when faced with complex problems, sometimes it's best to seek outside help.

The video concludes on a lighthearted note, with Tommy rubbing in Master Tom's misfortune about losing to him both at low boost and higher boost. As the camera fades to black, we can't help but feel for Tommy – he may have gotten outsmarted by his friend, but at least he learned something valuable from the experience.

The final shot of Austin's truck refrigeration and air conditioning equipment is a poignant reminder that even in DIY repair attempts, it's often better to seek outside expertise. As we watch the video conclude, we can't help but feel a sense of admiration for Austin, who has come to Tommy's rescue with his valuable skills and equipment.

In the end, this story serves as a reminder that even when things seem like they're going wrong, there is always hope for redemption. With the right expertise and guidance, even the most complex problems can be solved. And as we watch Tommy navigate this challenge, it becomes clear that sometimes, all it takes is a little bit of help from someone with the right skills to get us back on track.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome so if you don't notice a difference today we are on Tommy FES camera for whatever reason I started trying to use my camera today and it just wouldn't open up the lens so it's been a not great day between you know driving Evo which I love it's a great car there's a good chance I'm going to break my camera I just got a practice holding it like he does but you don't hear that every day all right so that's funny right um Evo AC still doesn't work and I'm very very upset about it someone might be coming to help me figure it out later today but it just it's been really really hot out and I feel like I've tried everything I've had it charged twice I've been checking everything we got it working with oh yeah yeah yeah we'll get into that more later and that stuff one of my lugs trying to put a spacer broke the log and then I had to rig stuff cuz Tommy doesn't have a vise you guys said Tommy has advice but let me show you simple yes because everybody was always saying no there's a vise right there look it's missing things it's broken I went a little overboard voicing something yeah so anyway I've been testing basically an extra five mil of clearance on the Evo because I wanted to order wheels that are the same specs but I want to go up to 245 with a more aggressive compound we're gonna do a stickier tire we're gonna do a better brake setup and then I'm gonna do some stiffer Springs to get this thing hanging even better so I've just been playing the fitment braking studs trying to replace them in a very ghetto fashion and now I am absolutely starving it's hot we're gonna go get food I'm not complaining I was trying to give you guys an idea look you keep trying to go out and drive and go to me 90% chance of rain in the next 20 minutes look I can post the rain for the past hour look at the clouds I target my hand way more with your camera let me see here I'm gonna show them Parsons sanded the entire hood I mean he's basically saying to the entire car but look at what good you got the roof of it glass stars coming out this cars coming up phenomenal hi okay go away the clouds what walk over to that front window in front of the nice white skyline I hope people don't end up not liking that's blue skies guy your windows are tinted are you dumb so thanks to Tommy if he ever borrow his camera today he probably is gonna be a girl and not want to have any of his car systems like we'll probably have to take Viva which is ironically what happened last time when I blew it up we all got in the Evo and went to go get food in the very similar area same place yeah same place same face disgrace sprayed with mace I wish these were bushes like the Homer I mean I wish you just wouldn't hit my Porsche buying this record and oh really yeah exposed based on how thank God all right I'm actually starving this I'm not gonna film anymore and I'm just gonna make my car drivable behind the scenes of Tommy FES Chop Shop well moving around cars on dollies when's this thing gonna run ever start working on it I think Jamie's coming soon isn't tomorrow yeah maybe I'll get a running maybe let me to see how much slower it is than mine I had something to tell my guys on camera what was I gonna tell you oh yeah so I guess some exciting bits out of the I've had today I have gone ahead and ordered a bunch of rad stuff for both the side-by-side and for the Evo so we've got lots of cool parts stuff coming in it should be very fun video wise but because of that today I kind of didn't get that much content but we'll have fun tonight catch what do you want to do so it's the it's the rematch we got the GTR against the Evo the Evo is coming back a lot harder but the GTR was at $13 a boost last time so I'm not expecting much the car is still not running optimal but I think I should take it back our trip so I got ripped really good it's faster than it was everyone's faster down low like I'm gonna hitting boots for so long whatever let the record hold that Tommy just made me look like a jerk after passing when we were going to get food by like 15 minutes we turned around I've been hungry since lunch this guy has had leftover pizza for breakfast I'd like two slices and I told Tommy dude all I need is food all I need is food and then he blows past the food place takes us on a thirty minute detour then shows up at the car meet where we would get stuck because people come up and want to talk to her I was like thirty people okay look like a jerk because we're leaving because I will literally kick someone in the face for a chicken nugget right now well I wasn't but listen listen going back to the race here spin around spin around selfie vlog Tommy did your car feel slow did you want to know why you're gonna take it slow no listen I'm gonna tell you a little secret I didn't get this far in initial deep last time but I did this time and I learned that team Emperor does not play clean team member plays dirty devious no I didn't fight it your GPS I'm not gonna tell you what I did but all I'm gonna say is no time for the team ever you're never gonna beat me in a race stuff I don't know what he did but anyway yes your tune guy oh did you do something weird my Beast is it fellow oh my god did he Lord the boost can you fix it please I was like it's the soul legend it felt so leg inside I felt bad about why'd you lower it like the 60% I only lower to 30% oh oh oh my god I think 20 pounds I'm feeling bad at first until you took me on that roundabout instead of let me get fed - that's hey there while we fix the TPS this dude that is also point out the fact that Tommy you did keep on saying the meat didn't start online I wanna put on the fact that he lured my booty touch another man to tune let the record state and he touch another man's tune you could touch another man's - but never mess with another man's coil packs right true church or true so you might have seen me on Instagram whining like a little and I did what I saw firsthand all day yeah you also saw the screaming - there was lots of I'd like to put that in lots and lots of screaming so uh I was kind of like half jokingly posting that hoping that someone maybe had an EC machine or was able to come out and it turns out a guy named Austin hit me up who was actually down to come out here he works on truck refrigeration and air conditioning I think that's what he said and he has all the machines and everything mobile in his work truck so he's gonna come and try to help me diagnose they see in the Evo if he can get it to work he will be my hero absolutely that thing is stationary I don't know if I ever showed this when we were bleeding the brakes what's that in there what was that in there coolant right from what whatever I break something that's car oh my god what it's all it is you got that right no judging what your style is old we're like literally dressed the exactly the same I'm just constantly I'm like such a millenium that's the only thing you ever said like imagine the logger who's like like vlogging stuff but the whole time like texting like texting what you were just doing your joking about it but you I don't want to do my boy Austin wrong so I was making sure I said it was truck refrigeration is what he does he's coming out here dude with a rig you said he's bringing a semi can he make the AC in here good yeah so he does this is this a truck is this a truck Tom it's like a Tom Tom sorry some of you guys notice that the taillights were working on my dad's car and I guess it's related to the dash lights not working it's a very common problem for the window switches to fail in this car so I figured I'll show you real quick how I'm about to rebuild this little window switch situation all right so this is Austin this is Austin's garage that you just pulled up into Tommy's garage man that thing is crazy man you still working on big rigs that's cool so make me look like an idiot hey you know this is this isn't the cause of the problem but I did try adding some freon earlier and what what did I do wrong forgot to take off this you know divider here that stops it from coming out yeah you'll learn it from the pros guys make sure you take it out it's like the child safety switch literally all right we figured it out thanks for coming all this way to help me look stupid it looks like I messed up a lot of things maybe five minutes I swear the first time there's a bunch of stuff that sprayed out I saw there was no free uh no fur so maybe Valvoline didn't put any free on it I will say Kenny actually put freon in the car when Kenny had his machine on it he put freon in it but Valvoline quickly Vizier's give me there that's crazy there may be I've sucked it out with Mike and with a child safety lid on it so that means there's nothing in here right it couldn't just be like settled or something okay I don't understand this so I was able to rip this thing apart I did confirm by playing with that little switch that it was the headlight or the taillights linked to the switch in there it also controls the dash lights so unfortunately as pi witnessed I was disassembling said switch not over a control environment I have no idea how any of it goes together and little Springs and metal pieces went flying everywhere so at the same time as I'm going to give Master Tom a big shout-out for letting me use his camera today to film my video since mine cited a malfunction this is what we're left with a bunch of these little things that I need to figure out how they are oriented so I'm gonna wait till master tom is back tomorrow and see how he recommends I had to put it back together I compile look up DIY or hopefully he has one laying around and hopefully he doesn't know that they're very expensive and they go for like hundreds of dollars because I guess it's a very common thing to break so usually that means that Tom would have one laying around but anyway hope you guys enjoy this video make sure you go rub it in Tommy's face that he lost to me both with low boost and higher boost so anyway I'll see you guys tomorrowwelcome so if you don't notice a difference today we are on Tommy FES camera for whatever reason I started trying to use my camera today and it just wouldn't open up the lens so it's been a not great day between you know driving Evo which I love it's a great car there's a good chance I'm going to break my camera I just got a practice holding it like he does but you don't hear that every day all right so that's funny right um Evo AC still doesn't work and I'm very very upset about it someone might be coming to help me figure it out later today but it just it's been really really hot out and I feel like I've tried everything I've had it charged twice I've been checking everything we got it working with oh yeah yeah yeah we'll get into that more later and that stuff one of my lugs trying to put a spacer broke the log and then I had to rig stuff cuz Tommy doesn't have a vise you guys said Tommy has advice but let me show you simple yes because everybody was always saying no there's a vise right there look it's missing things it's broken I went a little overboard voicing something yeah so anyway I've been testing basically an extra five mil of clearance on the Evo because I wanted to order wheels that are the same specs but I want to go up to 245 with a more aggressive compound we're gonna do a stickier tire we're gonna do a better brake setup and then I'm gonna do some stiffer Springs to get this thing hanging even better so I've just been playing the fitment braking studs trying to replace them in a very ghetto fashion and now I am absolutely starving it's hot we're gonna go get food I'm not complaining I was trying to give you guys an idea look you keep trying to go out and drive and go to me 90% chance of rain in the next 20 minutes look I can post the rain for the past hour look at the clouds I target my hand way more with your camera let me see here I'm gonna show them Parsons sanded the entire hood I mean he's basically saying to the entire car but look at what good you got the roof of it glass stars coming out this cars coming up phenomenal hi okay go away the clouds what walk over to that front window in front of the nice white skyline I hope people don't end up not liking that's blue skies guy your windows are tinted are you dumb so thanks to Tommy if he ever borrow his camera today he probably is gonna be a girl and not want to have any of his car systems like we'll probably have to take Viva which is ironically what happened last time when I blew it up we all got in the Evo and went to go get food in the very similar area same place yeah same place same face disgrace sprayed with mace I wish these were bushes like the Homer I mean I wish you just wouldn't hit my Porsche buying this record and oh really yeah exposed based on how thank God all right I'm actually starving this I'm not gonna film anymore and I'm just gonna make my car drivable behind the scenes of Tommy FES Chop Shop well moving around cars on dollies when's this thing gonna run ever start working on it I think Jamie's coming soon isn't tomorrow yeah maybe I'll get a running maybe let me to see how much slower it is than mine I had something to tell my guys on camera what was I gonna tell you oh yeah so I guess some exciting bits out of the I've had today I have gone ahead and ordered a bunch of rad stuff for both the side-by-side and for the Evo so we've got lots of cool parts stuff coming in it should be very fun video wise but because of that today I kind of didn't get that much content but we'll have fun tonight catch what do you want to do so it's the it's the rematch we got the GTR against the Evo the Evo is coming back a lot harder but the GTR was at $13 a boost last time so I'm not expecting much the car is still not running optimal but I think I should take it back our trip so I got ripped really good it's faster than it was everyone's faster down low like I'm gonna hitting boots for so long whatever let the record hold that Tommy just made me look like a jerk after passing when we were going to get food by like 15 minutes we turned around I've been hungry since lunch this guy has had leftover pizza for breakfast I'd like two slices and I told Tommy dude all I need is food all I need is food and then he blows past the food place takes us on a thirty minute detour then shows up at the car meet where we would get stuck because people come up and want to talk to her I was like thirty people okay look like a jerk because we're leaving because I will literally kick someone in the face for a chicken nugget right now well I wasn't but listen listen going back to the race here spin around spin around selfie vlog Tommy did your car feel slow did you want to know why you're gonna take it slow no listen I'm gonna tell you a little secret I didn't get this far in initial deep last time but I did this time and I learned that team Emperor does not play clean team member plays dirty devious no I didn't fight it your GPS I'm not gonna tell you what I did but all I'm gonna say is no time for the team ever you're never gonna beat me in a race stuff I don't know what he did but anyway yes your tune guy oh did you do something weird my Beast is it fellow oh my god did he Lord the boost can you fix it please I was like it's the soul legend it felt so leg inside I felt bad about why'd you lower it like the 60% I only lower to 30% oh oh oh my god I think 20 pounds I'm feeling bad at first until you took me on that roundabout instead of let me get fed - that's hey there while we fix the TPS this dude that is also point out the fact that Tommy you did keep on saying the meat didn't start online I wanna put on the fact that he lured my booty touch another man to tune let the record state and he touch another man's tune you could touch another man's - but never mess with another man's coil packs right true church or true so you might have seen me on Instagram whining like a little and I did what I saw firsthand all day yeah you also saw the screaming - there was lots of I'd like to put that in lots and lots of screaming so uh I was kind of like half jokingly posting that hoping that someone maybe had an EC machine or was able to come out and it turns out a guy named Austin hit me up who was actually down to come out here he works on truck refrigeration and air conditioning I think that's what he said and he has all the machines and everything mobile in his work truck so he's gonna come and try to help me diagnose they see in the Evo if he can get it to work he will be my hero absolutely that thing is stationary I don't know if I ever showed this when we were bleeding the brakes what's that in there what was that in there coolant right from what whatever I break something that's car oh my god what it's all it is you got that right no judging what your style is old we're like literally dressed the exactly the same I'm just constantly I'm like such a millenium that's the only thing you ever said like imagine the logger who's like like vlogging stuff but the whole time like texting like texting what you were just doing your joking about it but you I don't want to do my boy Austin wrong so I was making sure I said it was truck refrigeration is what he does he's coming out here dude with a rig you said he's bringing a semi can he make the AC in here good yeah so he does this is this a truck is this a truck Tom it's like a Tom Tom sorry some of you guys notice that the taillights were working on my dad's car and I guess it's related to the dash lights not working it's a very common problem for the window switches to fail in this car so I figured I'll show you real quick how I'm about to rebuild this little window switch situation all right so this is Austin this is Austin's garage that you just pulled up into Tommy's garage man that thing is crazy man you still working on big rigs that's cool so make me look like an idiot hey you know this is this isn't the cause of the problem but I did try adding some freon earlier and what what did I do wrong forgot to take off this you know divider here that stops it from coming out yeah you'll learn it from the pros guys make sure you take it out it's like the child safety switch literally all right we figured it out thanks for coming all this way to help me look stupid it looks like I messed up a lot of things maybe five minutes I swear the first time there's a bunch of stuff that sprayed out I saw there was no free uh no fur so maybe Valvoline didn't put any free on it I will say Kenny actually put freon in the car when Kenny had his machine on it he put freon in it but Valvoline quickly Vizier's give me there that's crazy there may be I've sucked it out with Mike and with a child safety lid on it so that means there's nothing in here right it couldn't just be like settled or something okay I don't understand this so I was able to rip this thing apart I did confirm by playing with that little switch that it was the headlight or the taillights linked to the switch in there it also controls the dash lights so unfortunately as pi witnessed I was disassembling said switch not over a control environment I have no idea how any of it goes together and little Springs and metal pieces went flying everywhere so at the same time as I'm going to give Master Tom a big shout-out for letting me use his camera today to film my video since mine cited a malfunction this is what we're left with a bunch of these little things that I need to figure out how they are oriented so I'm gonna wait till master tom is back tomorrow and see how he recommends I had to put it back together I compile look up DIY or hopefully he has one laying around and hopefully he doesn't know that they're very expensive and they go for like hundreds of dollars because I guess it's a very common thing to break so usually that means that Tom would have one laying around but anyway hope you guys enjoy this video make sure you go rub it in Tommy's face that he lost to me both with low boost and higher boost so anyway I'll see you guys tomorrow\n"