[DMCForum] Re: white haze - my saga continues (Lauren)

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Walt was talking about the condensation drain hose. Runs from the
heater core/evaporator box behind the passenger knee pad, through the
fiberglass body at the passenger side of the front frame Y (look at
the edge of your console), to the street below. Mine was actually two
pieces: preformed hard rubber inside the passenger compartment, and
flexible tubing outside that had gotten pinched flat between the frame
and body, causing water to back up and spill all over passenger foot
well. I simply threw the flimsy exterior portion away and now let
condensation cascade over the frame like rain water.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Lauren" <LPLand@xxxx> wrote:
>  Bill wrote:
> 
> > If your windows are fogging up with ethyl glycol, the leak is in the
> > the heater core itself, not outside the passenger compartment.
> 
> But Walt told me to look behind the accumulator for an open-ended
>  hose with a black, oily residue.   I am confused.  
> 
> I'm still not convinced that this is the problem. My windows don't 
> slime, they just get a white powdery coating that best wipes off 
> with a dry paper towel.
> 
> > BTW: Implicit in my last post was the assumption that you may be
> > running abrasive tap water in your cooling systems. If you are, and if
> > it indeed tears up household copper plumbing (heater cores are also
> > usually made of copper), switch to gallon water from the store.
> 
> I think it may be a mix of both tap water and gallon water.  My 
> preference would be for distilled water but I'm sure the PO used tap 
> water.  I have no clue what the shop used when they rebuilt my 
> cooling lines, but I'd hope it was bottled.
> 
> .................LP

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