Nate,
Well here you go again. It's know like you don't know every square inch of my car. Probably ever nut and screw (although it kind of weird know that you know my girl better than I do.)
So you left me with "It's probably your evaporator tray". Hell Nate, you probably eat your scrammed eggs in the morning from a spare evaporator tray you picked up from some Pick a Part that has everything in the world for these increasing rare cars that I can't find a damn thing for when I try.
You told me what it is, but it would be great to know where it is, as in what side, what shape, how far back in that jungle of wires and tubes.
Mostly kidding Nate, you are such a great resource for this board, but you are way over my head. I need your Special Ed. version on how to get the lake out of my back seat.
Chip
Increasingly happy in Houston with my Turbo Coupe
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> WELCOME HOME ! .
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> The lake is most likely water from the AC's in dash evaporator , there's a drain tube that clogs with dust , mud dauber wasp nets or simply rots away occasionally (it's rubber) .
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> The center vents have a flapper that can remain closed for several reasons , as I'm in Las Vegas where it reached 107* F & was still 104* F @ 6:00 PM , I walked into the Dollar Store across the parking lot from where SWMBO & her childhood friend were shoe shopping and bought a $1 , 12" long screwdriver , got back in the car with the paper windshield shade in place and shone my flashlight down the center vents until I could sort of see the flapper (when it's closed it's horizontal) and ever so gently poked at it , it turns out the trailing edge closest to you , raises up 1.5" or so , then you can slide a dowel (I used my tire pressure gauge) to hold the flapper open and when you turn on the AC again , dust will blow onto your clean shirt along with mass quantities of ice cold air =8-) .
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> I hope this helps , I was *really* afraid of breaking the flapper or other plastic / rubber parts in there but I was _dying_ in the heat
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> BTW : Ida is doing quite well in her new Govt. Senior Apartment .
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> -Nate
> Chip wrote:
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> > OK. She's home. After a years trial separation I'm back in babies arms. My 300cd turbo coupe sits in my home in Houston. She was driven out her from the outer banks of NC by a girl friend and has arrived safe and sound after a 2 day trip through the deep south.
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> > No events, low power on take off, but she has been free from the chains of bondage of a shade tree trying to fix her AC and pulling her dash right out by the vacuum lines.
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> > So, here is the first hurt. The AC ran all through the south-land and keep everything and everyone cool, coming through heat and humidity that old scratch would be proud of. No AC out of the center vents. But no biggie on that front (put I'll take how to fixes on that) just as soon as I extricate Lake Pontchartrain from my passenger side back seat well.
> > Where the hell did that water come from and how did it get way back there.
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> > Answers please.
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> > Chip
> > In Houston, happy to have her back, even with the lake.
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