On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:20:02 Chip said: >Is there a drain hose that may have come apart or have gotton clogged. I >know it was asking alot of my A/C to remove all the heat and moisture >from the air, was I just pushing it too far? clogged. you have to get to them from the OUTside. take a small phillips screwdriver, and remove the two screws in the plastic air-intake grills behind the rearmost side windows. the grills pull out from the bottom then pull down from the top. or is it the other way round? well, anyway, you have to take the grill out. then you fish around in the big hole for the drain hose ... it'll be on the front edge/side of the hole. there is a whoopee-cushion type thingie on the end of the hose, and it gets stuck together. squeeze it and break the stuck-ness and water runs all over you. :) >I am pretty sure there is a drain hose that runs down the right rear >side, but I am not sure of its origin. there's one on BOTH sides. and you need to unclog both, otherwise it'll still slosh on you going around corners. you can smear some armor-all or vaseline or whatever inside the "lips" of the whoopie cushion thingie to prevent it from sticking again. joel |
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