Help! My scirocco is a humidifier!

[roccnroll@hotmail.com (Drew Teague)]

>Do you have A/C? If so, your drain hose at the inside of the heater box
>could be plugged and have been storing water inside ever since. I've heard
>stories about people taking a corner hard and having a gallon of water
>spill out on to their feet.. all of it from the A/C.
>

I do have A/C.

I can't seem to find any reference of a drain hose in Bobby B's big red 
book.  Is this something I have to disassemble the center console for?


>Are you missing your plastic rain tray completely? That might cause rain
>mist to be sucked in as well..

I did check under the rain tray (yes, it's fully intact) for a potential 
culprit, and noticed some weird things.  First, the diagonal opening on the 
top of the passenger side of the box looks like it was taped up with duct 
tape years and years ago, but the tape has partially rotted, and doesn't 
stick anymore.  Also, one of the vaccuum lines is only 5 or 6 inches long, 
then is plugged with a screw.  I should probably note that the A/C 
compressor hasn't had a belt on it since before I bought the car, but 
everything else seems to be OK.

**Drew Teague**
Harrisburg, PA

`84 8v Rocco --  "Bruise"
`85 BMW 318





>From: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>
>To: Drew Teague <roccnroll@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Help! My scirocco is a humidifier!
>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
>
>If not, its probably the seal above the blower around where the
>ventilation intake is in the rain tray. Pretty big pain to change, I
>think.. tight work space.
>
>
>Also FYI the heater valve only closes one side of the heater core.. so
>don't rule out a coolant leak copmletely based on that.
>
>-Toby
>
>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Drew Teague wrote:
>
> > So, last night Melissa and I finally got a working clutch & tranny in my 
>84,
> > and when driving around in the humid, rainy weather, my vents pour out
> > visible water vapor like a humidifier.  Because of this, my defroster 
>fogs
> > the living crap out of all my windows, even when off.  I know it's not
> > coolant, because it smells like regular water (probably rain water) and
> > happens with the valve open or closed, etc.  Obviously there is some 
>sick
> > moisture in my heater somewhere that is somehow (???) coming out in the 
>form
> > of this vapor.
> >
> > TIA for any advice.  It's no fun (and dangerous) having to squeegee the
> > inside of the windshield every 30 seconds!
> >
> > **Drew Teague**
> > Harrisburg, PA
> >
> > `84 8v Rocco --  "Bruise"
> > `85 BMW 318
> >
> >
> >
> >
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