To my knowledge most all Dodge vehicles use a crimp in orifice tube. The entire line has to be service, expensive is minimal, changing it however can be exciting depending on the application. After market lines can be purchased with a joint and serviceable orifice tube, though I'm not sure its worth it as they are probably lucky to get changed once in the vehicles lifetime, much less multiple and short of a compressor failure I rarely see the need to change it anyway. In the event of a comp failure I think I'd just soon buy a new line anyway. On pickups its the line along the fender well from the drier to the condenser.

 

I don't think that applies to this truck as I pulled the tube out of a line and have it laying on the bench with the rest of the old parts. It's been a couple months since I took it apart and I don't remember where it came from. I could only get half of the tube out of the new cond, so will have to get another one before I can finish this beast off. But I still need to know where the tube goes, so when the cond gets here I can finish it up.

 

There is a 96 Factory Service Manual in the FAQ section that you can download. It's chapter 24 on my 94 manual.

 

Where do I find the FAQ's section?

 

Just wanted to clarify what year and engine you're working with, parts book shows an expansion valve, not an orifice tube until MY1994 using the 3.9L engine. I wasn't going to check all motor combos as the 3,9 was common all years it was easiest and I don't see engine size affecting it but possibly.

Should be the line from the compressor to the evaporator in the dash.

You may have already had a serviceable orifice line and taken it apart not knowing it as the connections look the same. If it hasn't been serviced before you can tell a crimp in style by thin crimp lines on 4 sides, about 6 inches apart.

 

On the first gen dak tech page there is a "sticky" section above the "normal threads". The first FAQ sticky is the one you want. The manual is about halfway down on that page.

 

It's a 1995 5.2L gas engine. It did have a serviceable "tube", I just don't remember where it came from, I thought it was at the condenser like some Chevrolet's. If I remember right from my years as a mechanic the crimped in "tube" was in the line from the drier to the condenser along the inside of the fender.

 

Ok, the new condenser came yesterday and installed today. It came with the orifice tube already installed. I had put the tube in the correct location but it wasn't crimped like the new one. Maybe they forgot to crimp it or it was for a different application. Any way put some juice in it and it blows nice and cold, will go back out in a little while and leak check it. Hopefully I'm done with this POS

 

Good deal

 

went out this morning and system is empty. So I put a can of juice in, removed a couple lower blower motor case bolts, pried it open stuck my sniffer in there and beep,beep,beep> So how big of a job is this, I've done a couple dodge 2500's and had to pull the whole dashboard apart. Is this the same thing?