I had the A/C recharged & it's working perfectly now. We have hot weather in Brittany at present but it's nice & icy in the car. The problem is that icy water is dripping down in the passenger footwell (RHD). I have been under the car to clear the A/C drains & managed to poke a screwdriver into both but I wasn't rewarded with an of armful of muck & dirty water. There is water dripping from both drains although there is more from the right hand (driver's side) drain.
Am I missing something? Do I need a longer screwdriver or do I need to start taking the dashboard out to make sure the A/C drains are connected properly at the top end?
Take the side panel off the centre console and you'll be able to see the hose. It may not be connected at one end or the other. Maybe it was disturbed when the dash was taken out by someone (that'll be me then....).
Re-post from another thread (sorry, did not see this one in time)
About the A/C drains, I've found while putting back together the interior, something in between my heater box and the floor of the car has "moved out of alignment", and the rubber connector between the box and the floor makes a bit of a 'kink', reducing a bit the available space for condensation to flow away from the box. I tried and tried and tried to put them in line but was impossible, the heater box is tight against its fixings and the floor hole ... well you can't move it :-)
Well, I know it and if I see an occasional drop or two of water overflowing, I live with it.
You may want to check the alignment on yours, before getting worried! :-)
Gilbertd wrote:
Take the side panel off the centre console and you'll be able to see the hose. It may not be connected at one end or the other. Maybe it was disturbed when the dash was taken out by someone (that'll be me then....).
I took the side panels off the centre console & found the left hand (passenger) corrugated hose that goes from draining the AC housing to the actual drain was kinked & had a hole in the side through which I think the water was dripping out. I unkinked the rubber corrugated hose & twisted it around so the split was upwards. I then drove with the side panels off for thirty minutes to a local town for some shopping then thirty minutes back 7 didn't have any water dripping in the footwell although it was pouring out under the car through the two AC drains.
Have you got a link to the parts diagram so I find the part number of the short corrugated rubber hose that has the split in it?
https://new.lrcat.com/#!/1234 or https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/land-rover-range-rover-1994-2001-parts/
I can't find it on either of them though. The only one that looks similar on the pictures is shown as the hose to the rear ducts. I can't see it being dual purpose but who knows?
They are similar in texture, but the sizes are different. If I interpret correctly the above, the one from the drain is tiny, must be around 10mm diameter, and is a "flexible joint" between the heater box and the pipe that goes through the floor of the car to the underside.
I have also failed to find it in the parts' catalog, seems they had "forgotten" it :-)
Nigel, this thing must be ridiculously cheap if you go to a breaker ... I cant imagine they will want high sums ... if they even have it, this is the typical type of thing no one cares about ...
Gilbertd wrote:
https://new.lrcat.com/#!/1234 or https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/land-rover-range-rover-1994-2001-parts/
I can't find it on either of them though. The only one that looks similar on the pictures is shown as the hose to the rear ducts. I can't see it being dual purpose but who knows?
The piece that looks like the part I am referring to is labelled 11 in this diagram https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/btr9224-duct-face-level-vent.html?code=L7K01040
This is about 10cm in diameter while the hose to the rear ducts is about 30cm in diameter.
why not just tape the hole up? Personally I leave a bit of a kink in my corrugations to improve (fractionally) the rigidity and length of the pipe...and top and bottom holes don't line up on either of the two i have operated on
Nigel, you sure is that? The large corrugated rubber is only for air, the small one takes condensed water in the bottom of the heater, and is not shown. You got to see it ...
Roman, taping the hole might be a bad idea lol
Good to know I am not the only one with misaligned drains on the P38.
On that diagram I can't find the corrugated drain that takes the icy water from the heater box down to the drain under the car. I think that the kink in the corrugated rubber drain was what was preventing the icy water draining away. The split in the tube doesn't seem to be allowing any water to escape.
I'm happy that I've fixed the problem so am not going to fiddle about with it any more.
Yeah, agree, better not mess around with it anymore!
There will be some other problem area to deal with in time .... :-)
leolito wrote:
Yeah, agree, better not mess around with it anymore!
There will be some other problem area to deal with in time .... :-)
Speaking of which...
Yesterday morning it was raining hard & after a forty minute drive I noticed the carpet in the passenger footwell had got rather wet. The water wasn't icy this time & the volume of water was greater so I'm guessing that this time it was rainwater getting in rather than water condensing on the AC. It still looks to be running out through the heater box. Last time I changed the pollen filters I applied generous amounts of sealant on the covers & screws but it looks like I may have missed somewhere.
It will probably be where the pollen filter housings are attached to the bulkhead or it gets in through the screwholes that hold the plenum cover on. the latter is fairly easy to sort as all you need do it take out the existing (rusty) screws, lift the panel slightly and squirt some silicone gloop under it where the screws go through and refit with new screws.