Smelly Heater??
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Smelly Heater??
OK so yea basicly lately my car has this bad mildewy......*** smell radiating from my car.....my guess is heater i dont know what might be wrong so im asking your guys opions. What do you guys think?
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Could just be a bunch of rotting leaves and stuff all accumulated against the evaporator core, where they always seem to pile up.
Take off the top of you evaporator housing and clean it out. You might be surprised at how much stuff can get caught there.
Take off the top of you evaporator housing and clean it out. You might be surprised at how much stuff can get caught there.
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yup clean the crap out from your evaporator. if your lucky like me and have no r12 left in it u can even disconnect the refridgerant lines and take it out completely and hose it down w/ a hose 
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If the heater core is going you will smell anti-freeze. The core will be leaking anti-freeze behind your dash. And when it finally goes it will leave a big puddle on the passenger floor board.
But if the smell you have is something other than anti-freeze, then it is not your heater core.
But if the smell you have is something other than anti-freeze, then it is not your heater core.
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water leaking in through the t-tops behind the headliner or possibly behind the carpet?
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It's the large blob of plastic & fiberglass stuck to the firewall on the pass side, right beside the engine.... the thing that makes your pass side spark plugs hard to get to... I doubt you need a pic to find it
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allright well i feel like an idiot.....i cant find what the heck your talking about........could someone descibe it.....or mabye a pic........pretty please!!!
I think the evaporated antifreese im breathing is getting to my brain....the sooner the better
I think the evaporated antifreese im breathing is getting to my brain....the sooner the better
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on the passenger side of the car, you see that silver tall canister? that is the accumulator dryer. one side of it goes to a metal line to the evaparator right up against the firewall. if you cant find it you dont have a/c 
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they are talking about that big black box thats on the firewall on the pass side....
and yea, if you cant find it you dont have a/c .. lmao good one...
and yea, if you cant find it you dont have a/c .. lmao good one...
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