yeh it's internal.
https://ibb.co/1YNRBdT

time for new compressor

ok I'm just watching. disassembly video and I think your right. the snap ring circlip just seems big. I'll get a photo.

really? I see the clutch assembly bearing fits over a ~1 inch sleeve on the compressor. as I was driving I remember that the exploded bearing I saw had. bearing race holder ring about 20mm in diameter, less than an inch. sad face. so I think what I saw in my overexcited state was actually exactly wh...

yeh look I just drove over the hills terrified that the bearing would fail and I'd loose power steering and alt and all, but then It hit me, the bearing I saw was inside not outside the compressor. it was around the input shaft and held in with a circlip it must be the culprit of all the symptoms. s...

ok so I managed to get the plate off my locking my vice grips onto one of the bits on the pulley and tht let me undo the bolt. got it off and found metal everywhere. about 5 balls missing from the bearing, and the bearing face and seal completely dissintegrated. is this simple exterior bearing the b...

bahahaaa this belt again. Evey time I have a problem on this car, every time, it involves removing this God forsaken serpentine belt. thanks to Honda who made it so that nothing other than their official belt removal tool can do it, I have to remove engine mounts and jack engine up so that the tensi...

well I was able to stuff in 0.08 inches lol. I'm not looking forward to this , but hopefully ur experience just saved me my agony.

Wow. All the conjecture. My bet is on the clutch air gap......being too wide. Have 'the guy' remove the thickest shim. The air gap should be about .020 when fixed. hey mate thanks, u read my problem and told me what to search for and the first video I see is this which seems to suggest what I didn'...

right so there's a wearing clutch plate that is dealt with via shims? fascinating. would / could that just be a coincidence along with the hissing noise cause, which I think was/is low gas because of a gas leak? All the details in the post are what most "help me" posts need. experts need b...

thank you for this technology specific forum. im in Philippines (an Alien from Australia) working and raising a family and driving a 2003 honda CR-V. I regularly drive it over the hills with the kids and wife and need aircon to stop the windows fogging up when it rains. I bought the car 2 years ago....