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AC drainage hose is clogged.
Sent to Car Experts February 13 01:18 PM

My drainage hose in my airconditioning unit in my 1995 Honda Odessey is clogged, and i am getting puddles of water on my carpets on the drivers and passengers sides. Where is the hose located so i can run a fish or something else to unclogg it? I think the hose runs along the firewall, but i am not sure where it is. If I had a picture to look at or something, it would be very helpfull.

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February 13 1:23 PM (4 minutes and 46 seconds later)
         
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 If you look under the hood at the firewall on the passenger side, probably just below the A/C lines coming in, you should see a rubber hose coming through and pointing down.
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February 13 2:32 PM (1 hour and 9 minutes and 4 seconds later)
         
Reply to Tech501's Post: I located the hose you told me to look for, but i don,t think that fixed the problem. The first thing i noticed before the water started to appear on the rugs was a sort of howling sound when i turned up the air blower to the highest speed. then the watewr started to appear on the rugs. I figuered the drainage hoser was clogged. There are a couple of hoses coming out of a plastic bottle, one of them leads down to the bottom of the car. I put a hanger in there as far as i could get it. Nothing was on the end of the hanger. I saw some kind of switch on the top of the bottle. Do you think that switch is broken? or does that even matter. or is there something else i could try?
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February 13 2:40 PM (7 minutes and 25 seconds later)
         
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 This hose isn't coming out of any bottle. It's about 3/4 of an inch thick and comes through the firewall. It is possible they didn't use a hose and there is just a plastic nipple protruding through the firewall, but Honda's usually use a hose. If you look umder the dash, remove the plastic cover so you can see up there and you should be able to see where the plastic housing narrows to a small nipple and goes through the firewall.
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February 13 3:08 PM (28 minutes and 52 seconds later)
         
Reply to Tech501's Post: I see the hose you are explaining. it is 3/4 inch thick, and it runs down to the bottem of the car. but if you follow the hose upwards, it leads to a t-off one hose tees of to a clear plastic hose, i cant see where that ends up, and the 3/4 inch thick hose goes up to a plastic bottle. like i said, i ran a hanger up the 3/4 inch thick hose, and nothing seemed to be clogged, unless it is that claer plastic hose that is clogged or somethin is up with that bottle.
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February 13 3:11 PM (2 minutes and 24 seconds later)
         
is there some kind of pump switch that is broken or something else you can think of?
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February 13 3:15 PM (3 minutes and 49 seconds later)
         
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 That doesn't sound right. This hose shouldn't tee off anything. It should go directly through the firewall. I really don't think it's cold enough up there to fill that thing with condensation anyway.  

Heater core, condensation or rain water are the only things you can get in there. Check your coolant level.



Edited by Tech501 on February 13 2005 at 3:16 PM
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February 13 3:29 PM (14 minutes and 41 seconds later)
         
Reply to Tech501's Post: ok, thank you for youre help.
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February 13 3:34 PM (4 minutes and 32 seconds later)
         
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