Please Help: Air Conditioner Leaking

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by nisyota

no fixes on this? Ive cleaned out my hose twice this year. im thinking of getting a new hose from homedepot...

its an easy job to unclog the hose, but its annoying that i have to do this....

After looking at the AC section of the service manual, I am mighty glad that I put the filter in within the first week that I bought the car.

If you look at the picture below, without the filter in place, anything that enters the outside intake has a direct path into the air box. With the filter there, you will prevent particulate from getting into the box, where it then plugs the drain and provides a breeding ground for molds. Even if you haven't had the drain fully plugged, the stuff that enters without the filter will stick to the walls of the box. So, if you've run without the filter for any period of time, before adding the filter it would make sense to disinfect the airbox as well as you can with something like Ozium or Lysol.

AC Box.jpg