A customer of mine has a bunch of lieberts. The Carlyle compressors in the units are leaking oil from the head bearing gasket, by the oil pump. This problem is only on compressors that are less than 5 years old, some are new. More than half of the compressors have this problem. The gaskets have been changed and still getting significant oil coming out from there. I don’t want to keep changing gaskets if it’s not fixing the problem. Any ideas for solutions would be appreciated.
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A customer of mine has a bunch of lieberts. The Carlyle compressors in the units are leaking oil from the head bearing gasket, by the oil pump. This problem is only on compressors that are less than 5 years old, some are new. More than half of the compressors have this problem. The gaskets have been changed and still getting significant oil coming out from there. I don’t want to keep changing gaskets if it’s not fixing the problem. Any ideas for solutions would be appreciated.
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Have you retrofitted refrigerant,and or followed torque specs when replacing?
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Where there's oil there's refrigerant, no ?
Unless it’s under the oil level. I have seen quite a few 06D compressors leaking oil at the base plate but never the oil pump gasket. I’d be looking at torque specs and excessive vibration like mentioned.
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Not always or at least not enough to worry about
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Are the gaskets metal or fiber? Is it leaking from the gasket area between the bolts or is it leaking up through the bolts? Does the compressor have an oil pressure transducer block mounted on the bearing head or is it just the standard flat plate? Are these OEM compressors or are they remanufactured?
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