98 S-10 Fluid leak

#1

Strange leak under passenger side, between wheel well and firewall. Seems to
be coming from lower side of the air conditioner condenser. The plastic box
or cover where the 2 AC lines go in. The fluid appears to be radiator
fluid, it has the greenish color and does not appear to be Refrigerant from
the AC, and the AC works great but has a strange radiator smell to it. My
original thinking was it was the heater box but the lines are to far away
from the leak, around the middle of firewall.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

#2

evodawg wrote:

Quote:

Strange leak under passenger side, between wheel well and firewall. Seems to
be coming from lower side of the air conditioner condenser. The plastic box
or cover where the 2 AC lines go in. The fluid appears to be radiator
fluid, it has the greenish color and does not appear to be Refrigerant from
the AC, and the AC works great but has a strange radiator smell to it. My
original thinking was it was the heater box but the lines are to far away
from the leak, around the middle of firewall.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Welcome to heater core hell.....
Sounds like a small leak BUT it will get bigger. It is leaking and
draining out the A/C drain.

--
Steve W.

#3

Steve W. wrote:

Quote:

evodawg wrote:
Strange leak under passenger side, between wheel well and firewall. Seems
to be coming from lower side of the air conditioner condenser. The
plastic box
or cover where the 2 AC lines go in. The fluid appears to be radiator
fluid, it has the greenish color and does not appear to be Refrigerant
from
the AC, and the AC works great but has a strange radiator smell to it.
My original thinking was it was the heater box but the lines are to far
away from the leak, around the middle of firewall.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Welcome to heater core hell.....
Sounds like a small leak BUT it will get bigger. It is leaking and
draining out the A/C drain.

Well that's what I was afraid of. Hey I live in California and I never use

the heat that often could I just join the 2 heater hoses together and
bypass the heater core? for a quick fix?
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"
Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586

#4

evodawg wrote:

Quote:

Steve W. wrote:

evodawg wrote:
Strange leak under passenger side, between wheel well and firewall. Seems
to be coming from lower side of the air conditioner condenser. The
plastic box
or cover where the 2 AC lines go in. The fluid appears to be radiator
fluid, it has the greenish color and does not appear to be Refrigerant
from
the AC, and the AC works great but has a strange radiator smell to it.
My original thinking was it was the heater box but the lines are to far
away from the leak, around the middle of firewall.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Welcome to heater core hell.....
Sounds like a small leak BUT it will get bigger. It is leaking and
draining out the A/C drain.

Well that's what I was afraid of. Hey I live in California and I never use
the heat that often could I just join the 2 heater hoses together and
bypass the heater core? for a quick fix?

Yes.

--
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

#5

I have the older 92 body style and when I replaced the heater core, I had it
done in about an hour. It was actually fairly easy. Dropping the computer
and taking the kick panel off gave me the room to take it out.

I'm not sure how bad the newer style is.

Lannie

"Steve W." <csr684NOT (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

evodawg wrote:
Strange leak under passenger side, between wheel well and firewall. Seems
to
be coming from lower side of the air conditioner condenser. The plastic
box
or cover where the 2 AC lines go in. The fluid appears to be radiator
fluid, it has the greenish color and does not appear to be Refrigerant
from
the AC, and the AC works great but has a strange radiator smell to it.
My
original thinking was it was the heater box but the lines are to far away
from the leak, around the middle of firewall. Any Ideas?

Thanks

Welcome to heater core hell.....
Sounds like a small leak BUT it will get bigger. It is leaking and
draining out the A/C drain.

--
Steve W.

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