AC Condensation. Help... I'm drowning.

Joshua Van Tol josh at spiny.com
Sun Aug 5 20:06:32 EDT 2001


>your evaporator drain is clogged. you need to look
>under the car, pass side firewall. there should be a
>hose coming out of the evap. box facing down.
>sometimes they are tricky to see. you may be ablr to
>see it from under the hood also. if you have a
>compressor, use a blow gun and try to blow it out. if
>not get something firm and long, but not anything
>metal and gently push it up there till the water comes
>out. odds are that this will happen again, you may
>have to take the a/c box out and get all the crap out
>of it the proper way. yours sounds very bad if the
>blower motor is scooping it up into your dash.
>useually it just drains into the interior on the pass
>side floor.

I've found that sort of "massaging" the crud out of the hose has a 
better success rate. That way you aren't pushing the crud that 
clogged the drain back up into the housing, where it's free to clog 
again. You simply pinch off the top of the hose, and squeeze like 
you're supposed to do with a tube of toothpaste to get the crud out, 
then repeat a few times.



-- 
Joshua Van Tol -- josh at spiny.com



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