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Forrest King

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Location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 Monterey
« on: September 04, 2016, 01:24:05 AM »
Anyone know location of ports for dash air conditioning on 2006 Monterey?
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Bob Stone

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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2016, 08:31:49 AM »
Forrest, the dash A/C ports for my '05 Monty are on or near the compressor on the top of the Cat C9.


Slightly off topic if I may: on reading the manual this evening I was surprised to learn that the dash A/C does not function if the selector is set to 'floor' or 'bilevel'.


Also, if the temperature is set to 'hot' and the A/C is turned 'on' additional heat is available for heater and defroster as engine coolant is directed through the A/C condenser in addition to the heater core.


P.S. After several attempts at trying to maintain a coolant charge and considering the effectiveness of the dash A/C I gave up and just use the generator and roof A/C.

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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2016, 03:23:06 PM »
Forrest, the dash A/C ports for my '05 Monty are on or near the compressor on the top of the Cat C9.


Slightly off topic if I may: on reading the manual this evening I was surprised to learn that the dash A/C does not function if the selector is set to 'floor' or 'bilevel'.


Also, if the temperature is set to 'hot' and the A/C is turned 'on' additional heat is available for heater and defroster as engine coolant is directed through the A/C condenser in addition to the heater core.


P.S. After several attempts at trying to maintain a coolant charge and considering the effectiveness of the dash A/C I gave up and just use the generator and roof A/C.


I have done the same as you. I had everything in my dash a/c system replaced and finally had cool air blowing. It lasted about two trips and now it is non cooling once again. I'm not going to pour any more money into it as it doesn't really cool the coach anyhow. The service center said there must be a leak somewhere still but hunting it down at $130 an hour doesn't make any sense to me. If I get bored this winter I may look around for a leak, but I doubt it.
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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2016, 08:05:43 PM »
I've noticed the same thing since our coach was virtually new.  It's just not as proficient a system as on a car, although it worked good enough this season so far.

But you might want to check one thing out, regardless.  Ours was repaired under warranty when I noticed during a walkaround (in '07?) that the electric fan was out of place.  The streetside rear louvered door kinda hides it, so you may need to remove a couple bolts under its lower lip to fold the door up get full access. 

The devices used at the factory to hold the fan in place over the radiator (condenser) fins were at best pretty flimsy.  My fan had let go at the top and fallen, it's wire loom pulling it diagonally across, and the so-called cleats scraping across fins and damaging them.  The repair tech in Boise fabricated a better top retaining device, basically one long cleat as opposed to the two poorly designed small ones as I recall, and meanwhile I resurrected the fins as best I could.  Fortunately no tubes had been compromised.  I understand there was some heads rolled back at the factory for what was deemed a totally inadequate mount configuration.  Mine wasn't the only failed one practically new right out the door, and I guess the Boise tech was lauded by the factory supers for his mount redesign, which the factory thereafter supposedly implemented.

It's easy enough to check back there, and you can examine the electrical connections while you're at it to make sure they're working to activate the fan and pull air over the condenser fins when the dash switches call for it.  Even if a fallen fan is an issue and you repair it, that doesn't mean the dash air will suddenly be wonderfully efficient again, if it ever was.   But ours worked good enough this summer on a number of 90 degree day drives that we didn't have to kick on the genset and roof air, it has never been recharged, and so I reckon we're lucky so far.

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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2016, 05:22:12 AM »
Forrest,
In case you haven't found them yet, in our 07, they are accessible when you open the generator slide. Look on the passenger side against the firewall.
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Forrest King

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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2016, 05:17:36 AM »
Still looking for them; was in engine compartment today. Did not find, also looked in the front - still not found. Thanks Joel, had seen that post a while back and fixed that problem. Will keep looking, just takes a little longer now.  Not as young and fighting a kidney stone right now also.

Thanks guys
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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2016, 11:09:39 PM »
Forest, get rid of the stone first (ouch)

As said earlier the connections are on the right (passenger) side of the generator. With the generator side fully out, look up and to your left about 10" from the front cap, if I remember correctly it's the red connection. To get to the low side you have to get under the right side of the coach and reach way up. My arms won't reach so I have to almost sit up. I threw my back out getting to the low pressure one. Just had mine recharged, 4lbs of coolant and $120.00 later. I have to do mine every season, can't find the small leak. Many people have this problem.
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Forrest King

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Re: location of dash air conditioning ports on 2006 montery
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2016, 05:43:02 AM »
Thanks, will be looking for it stone or no stone.  Just an old retired Marine and hard head plus jarhead.
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