I was coming home today, and took a quick turn (loop type of curve off a highway) and water dripped all over my foot. This isnt the first time it has happened. Im not sure where its coming from. It did rain today. Anyone have any expieriences like this?

 

mecca,

were you running your Air Cond.? it's probably condensation..It should drain outside though.... ...JR

 

Yeah. Maybe a lot of condensation built up from it just raining. I was runnin the Air Conditioning. I thought it would drain outside? Maybe not lol. Hmmm

 

There is a drain tube that is suppose to drain the condensation that can get clogged easily... this usually happens more if you use Normal AC instead of MAX, as normal draws humid air from outside. Max draws from the cabin.

Trying to de-clog that hose, from what I've heard, it quite hard...

It might be a good idea for all, just to be safe, to use max AC so the likely hood of this happening is lowered.

There was another thread about this some time ago... same title, water on foot... do a search, there might be a better description of de-clogging the tube....

 

DUDE!!!

Have I got the inside scoop fer ya or what!

It just so happens that last month I left the design group that did the HVAC unit for the F-150s & lighting.

It seems that the original F-150 design never took into account high cornering loads. (not high by our standards )
But anyway they added a catch tray to the bottom to "help" solve this. But it's not a sure fire fix.

The best thing you can do is to run it on max. BTW: This is a totally misleading term. "Max" All that is really happening is that the recircut door is 90-95% closed and pulling mostly cabin air. The air is passing through an evaporator core which pulls most of the water out of it and drains it down towards the drain tube. After running this way for a while the cabin humidity drops and the water inside the HVAC housings becomes nill.

And actually after the A/C pulls down the cabin temp & humidity, the compressor won't run as much and lesson wear/tear and fuel consumption.

It's unlikely (but possible) that the drain hose is partitially plugged. If it is you'd notice water quite often.

If you need anything further in depth on this, e-mail me at wydopnthrtl@yahoo.com

Later, WOT

 

I usually run my air on Max, or just the floor/vents fan. Hmmm... Its only happened twice, and can't be hurting too much. Ill look at it tommorrow and see if I can find anything maybe unplugged or something. Thanks for the suggestions guys.