Expansion Valve: Service and Repair

Thermostatic Expansion Valve













Removal and Installation

1. Recover the refrigerant. Service and Repair

2. Detach the brake booster vacuum hose retainer from the strut tower brace.





3. NOTE: RH side of strut tower brace shown, LH similar.

Remove the 4 nuts and the strut tower brace.

- To install, tighten to 30 Nm (22 lb-ft).





4. Remove the Thermostatic Expansion Valve (TXV) fitting nut.
- Discard the O-ring seals.

- To install, tighten to 8 Nm (71 lb-in).

5. Remove the 2 TXV bolts.
- To install, tighten to 8 Nm (71 lb-in).

6. Remove the TXV.
- Discard the O-ring seals.

7. To install, reverse the removal procedure.
- Install new O-ring seals and gasket seals.

- Add the correct amount of clean PAG oil. Service and Repair

8. Evacuate, leak test and charge the refrigerant system. Service and Repair Component Tests and General Diagnostics