Question about my A/C
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Question about my A/C
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Well I just recently bought a 96' Civic EX, turns out my A/C doesn't work and call up the guy and says it needs to be recharged and so I do so but it still didn't work the A/C compressor would not turn, so I figured it could be a fuse, so I began to look through the fuse box in the engine bay and found a fuse burnt, replaced it and it burnt again after a few seconds of the A/C compressor running.
So my questions are, Why does that fuse keep burning up when the A/C compressor begins to run? Is the clutch on the A/C compressor bad therefore causing it to draw more power and burning the fuse?
TIA,
David M.
P.S. This is my first Honda. Just sold my JTI...so i have no knowledge of Honda at all
Well I just recently bought a 96' Civic EX, turns out my A/C doesn't work and call up the guy and says it needs to be recharged and so I do so but it still didn't work the A/C compressor would not turn, so I figured it could be a fuse, so I began to look through the fuse box in the engine bay and found a fuse burnt, replaced it and it burnt again after a few seconds of the A/C compressor running.
So my questions are, Why does that fuse keep burning up when the A/C compressor begins to run? Is the clutch on the A/C compressor bad therefore causing it to draw more power and burning the fuse?
TIA,
David M.
P.S. This is my first Honda. Just sold my JTI...so i have no knowledge of Honda at all
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I would ohm the clutch coil. It is probably shorted. If you can spin the compressor ( not the belt pulley ) by hand, the compressor is probably ok. Don't just start replacing parts without properly diagnosing the car. You might save yourself some money.