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Water leaking into passenger footwell

Old Jul 30, 2010 | 04:55 AM
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Water leaking into passenger footwell

I have water leaking into the passenger side footwell from the a/c, it was still blowing cold air until the blower stopped working. I know water was getting into the blower because I could hear it being blown through, any ideas as to what would cause this?

I searched and found that a pinched or clogged drain tube can cause this but I'm also guessing the evaporator could be bad.
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 05:01 AM
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Had this happen on my evo8 ,, it was the little drain tube in the engine bay , make sure you clean out all the water ,,
It also fries the little electronic circuit board located behind your glove box on top of the blower assembly .
Good luck
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Old Jul 30, 2010 | 12:57 PM
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Where exactly is the drain tube and did you remove the dash to make sure everything was dry or just pull off the glovebox and dry behind there?
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 05:37 AM
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The drain tube comes outta the firewall into the engine bay , its centered on the car probably right behind the intake manifold and just below it , Its a small black rubber hose with a 90* bend in it, it can be tugged off by hand , just blow it out with compressed air or something .
Once you take off the glove box you will find the blower assembly ,Kinda have to lay on your back but theres about 5 screws that hold it in place that need to be removed, this assembly houses the blower itself which is where the water will collect .
Thats all that needs to be dried .
After its dried you will need to inspect the resistor located on top of the assembly to see if its shorted out , you can use a regular lancer one from a junkyard as a replacement !
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 06:30 AM
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Awesome, thank you very much sir! I'll take a look when I get home from school today, do you know if the blower from a Lancer will work? I think my blower may have gone bad from the water leaking into the housing.
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 10:40 AM
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he stated in the last part that a Lancer blower from a junk yard works
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 01:01 PM
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I thought he was talking about the resistor?
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 01:06 PM
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^ I was talking about the resistor , im guessing thats your problem rather then the blower as its designed to short out before the blower , and it disables the fan from operating , actually i think mine still worked on low or something like that.
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Old Aug 2, 2010 | 01:15 PM
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Ahhh gotcha I'll try out that first, thanks for the help!
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Old Apr 9, 2014 | 07:52 AM
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i ran into a similler problum with mine took carpet out and cheaked every were turned out to be my side door trim replaced it never came back had a small tear
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