Thread: Water in passenger footwell

Originally Posted by Hoges

Condensate is pooling in the system somewhere...

Yep but why its forming so far back up the duct is the mystery - its not the normal drain problem and there's no blockages as both drains are running freely =/ Paul's photo shows the puddle I'm talking about - quite high up yet that's where water is gathering. Pretty much has to be condensation but why its occurring way up there I just don't know.

Some good stuff from one of our Sth African P38 confreres and who, it would appear, also earns his living fixing others' 'stuff-ups' ! Some very interesting examples of how not to do things!! RANGE ROVER WORLD

It has some practical ideas including what to look for re water leaks, EAS problems...e.g. using an inline fuel filter as an air filter to stop dust getting into the air compressor intake etc etc

re. water leaks, scroll down to "Fresh air intake system"

cheers

Hi Guys

I just found a small patch of water in the LHS pasenger footwell, and through to myself "I'm pretty sure I read something about this on AULRO".

Had a look underneath and could see water driping from the ducksbum under the dirvers side, but nothing on the passenger side.

Poked the ducks bum with a screwdriver and about 50ml of water landed on my face. Which was totally expected but how else can you see where to aim.

Fortunatly no need to go exploring behiond the dashboard yet.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

Cheers
Rob

update to my problem...
Went for a drive down the coast on Saturday to take the "puppy" for her first trip to the beach... as you can see from the pic below, she hated it and wanted to rescue every bit of seaweed should could find


It was approx 30degC and the A/C was on pretty much all of the time until SWMBO complained that it was too cold on the way home. When we got home there was a sizeable puddle of condensate in the passenger footwell and water dripping out of the passenger side drain point.

Sunday I decided to take it all apart again to fix the leaking bits from the rain and try to trace the condensate leak.

Lost the plastic end of my flexi-tool up the LHS drain plug... called Andy who told me where to drill a hole to recover it... 1" hole about here allowed me to extract the lost bit and a 1" bung plug from SCA to fill it.


replaced the perished foam in the ducts with weather strip from the hardware store


wherever there was a chance of water entering through the plenum, Sikaflex was applied


rejoined the duct and made a better seal using duct tape


More heat and rain this week... the journey continues.

Lots more photos of this project at Plenum Air just haven't documented them yet.


Cheers, Paul.

Originally Posted by PaulP38a

rejoined the duct and made a better seal using duct tape

People acutally use duct tape for ducting ? /gasp That's a first I should of done that bit too in hindsight - although just replacing the seal seems to be doing the trick so far with no condensate for a couple weeks now

Now all you gotta do is teach that pup/dog to steam rice and slice tuna... and then you can open the first ever Mr P38a guru sushi bar!

You should nick-name the thing NORI!

Originally Posted by DT-P38

You should nick-name the thing NORI!

LOL - we got to smell the NORI all the way home in the car too, and it lingers there still

Her name is Lilly. Close to Nori but of the pond variety

It has been a couple of weeks since I pulled it all apart and Sikaflexed it all up again.

During that period, the Rangie has driven through torrential rain, sat overnight in said rain, driven on hot days with A/C blowing and has not shown any signs of water/condensate leakage through the ducts or the blowers.

Not saying that it is fixed... just that it is all good so far. Where's that bit of wood to knock on?

Cheers, Paul.