{"id":31899,"date":"2016-06-08T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=31899"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:39:08","slug":"drain-tube-ford-taurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/06\/drain-tube-ford-taurus","title":{"rendered":"Drain Tube Ford Taurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34344 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Drain Tube Evaporator core housing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/evaporator-core-housing-drain.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/airconditioning.html\">Air conditioning<\/a> works great, but in the humidity (florida) my carpet gets very wet only on the passenger side of my 1999 Ford Taurus. Not due to rain, have checked all window seals good. was told it could possibly be a drain tube plugged up. possible? Where exactly on firewall is it located? thanks<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>RESPONSE<\/p>\n<p>There is a drain tube that does get clogged. It is at the bottom of the Evaporator Core housing. This is also the same location as the heater core housing.\u00a0 Look below the heater core hoses at the firewall. That is the evaporator core housing. Look at and around the bottom of the housing. Simply prob the end of the tube with a pencil or screwdriver to unplug the drain tube.<\/p>\n<p>Example location:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34345\" src=\"\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ford-evaporator-drain-plug.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Evaporator core drain plug location diagram\" width=\"520\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ford-evaporator-drain-plug.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ford-evaporator-drain-plug-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air conditioning works great, but in the humidity (florida) my carpet gets very wet only on the passenger side of my 1999 Ford Taurus. Not due to rain, have checked all window seals good. was told it could possibly be a drain tube plugged up. possible? Where exactly on firewall is it located? thanks RESPONSE&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2016\/06\/drain-tube-ford-taurus\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drain Tube Ford Taurus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[10631],"class_list":["post-31899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ford","category-auto-repair-questions","tag-drain-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}