A question regarding A/C

[TOYOTA CARS]

My son pointed out to me when he was entering the car with the A/C on full blast that there was this unusual (atleast compared to the past) sound from the A/C. My best description is a water running through pipe sound.

I can't recollect hearing this sound from last September.

Should I be concerned? BTW, if you guys remember my previous thread with the extreme vibration, it was a cracked block (!!!!). $2000 to fix. I'm not in the best financial situation (finally getting a bigger house) to get a new car so I stuck with fixing it.

Thanks y'all.

[RningOnFumes]

Originally Posted by TOYOTA CARS

My son pointed out to me when he was entering the car with the A/C on full blast that there was this unusual (atleast compared to the past) sound from the A/C. My best description is a water running through pipe sound.

I can't recollect hearing this sound from last September.

Should I be concerned? BTW, if you guys remember my previous thread with the extreme vibration, it was a cracked block (!!!!). $2000 to fix. I'm not in the best financial situation (finally getting a bigger house) to get a new car so I stuck with fixing it.

Thanks y'all.

I read your other thread at "eesh"

Well, at 75 k even at 95, your toyota should be running like a champ. Did you get the car new? Was it used? I had a used 96 tacoma at 90 k...it ended up with a crack manifold and i spent almost 2 k for it. It seemed to be a work truck before i had it so with that understanding....i got rid of it while i had the chance to get money out of it (traded in for a new tacoma). You just fixed your car..here comes another ....hmm.. well, your adding to your mechanic's son's college tuition.

Enough ranting from me. Some questions so maybe someone here could help you.

1. Happens every time?
2. Lower settings, does it still have that sound?
3. Do you hear it when it's off? is there a drain of power?
4. Do you see any liquid coming out of your car?
5. Are your vent's just clogged? Can you feel the same movement of air from all your vents at all the different settings?
6. Is there just a clog in your A/c Drain?



your last resort if no one here has a clue...gotta get it diagnosed.

dave

[TOYOTA CARS]

I don't think I'm going to tell my wife about this if it's a problem. She told me not to fix it and drive with the vibration.... till it dies on the side of the road. God forbid that I will have to fix the Camry again. Perhaps I should get an Accord.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No for both except sometimes during driving uphill
4. No but I do have the a/c condensation
5. No, Yes
6. Not that I know off.

Come to think of it, I can't believe that this car can be so problematic for a 9 11/12 year old car and for a Toyota. I bought it new. I think I still have the sticker.

[chronoti]

try and see exactly what part makes the water noise .... also in front of the battery there should be a dryer for the ac system (looks like a long sliver canaster with 2 pipes on top) it should have a sight glass ... when the ac is on you should see liquid run through that, if not you need more gas

[TOYOTA CARS]

I tracked down the noise and it's near this black canister like thing at the left top of the engine compartment (when you're facing the engine with the hood opened). I'll take a pic when I come back home. Basically it's diagonally from where the battery is located.

[TOYOTA CARS]

As promised.



Perhaps it's normal?

[ShawnM]

Thats the wiper motor. No liquid in there. I was thinking a clogged AC drain too. It can cause a water sloshing sound and if it builds up enough it will eventually start leaking into the car. Havent seen it on camrys, but have seen a couple es300 with that problem. Once the drain was cleared about a gallon of water came out.

[RningOnFumes]

i agree with Shawn.

I was wondering what you were talking about last nite after i took a look under my hood because i didn't remember seeing anything there.---maybe your car was special?--so i waited.

Um well, behind that on the other side of the firewall, i know is a lot of the AC components....the mechanical parts related to the blower.

That's what i've got. I hope more people chime in.

dave

[TOYOTA CARS]

You see those two tubes below the canister curving at 90o? Perhaps that is something? All the way down there.

Otherwise, I think I need to go and scream somewhere. One problem following another.

[RningOnFumes]

okay, this part might make you "look" stupid....take an pipe or old role of paper hand towel. Put to your ear, move it all around that area.....where is the sound loudest...that is if it's not loud enough already.

d

[TOYOTA CARS]

I'd say those tubes on the bottom are the loudest.

[CamNub]

I'm not sure because i don't know how a/c works.
This is a guess, and i do not know anything about a/c. Could it be possible that watever unit is not converting all of the liquid into a/c?

And btw, for future reference. Next time, circle the place you want us to look at or type out what you want us to look at.

[CamNub]

# The compressor compresses cool Freon gas, causing it to become hot, high-pressure Freon gas (red in the diagram above).
# This hot gas runs through a set of coils so it can dissipate its heat, and it condenses into a liquid.
# The Freon liquid runs through an expansion valve, and in the process it evaporates to become cold, low-pressure Freon gas (light blue in the diagram above).
# This cold gas runs through a set of coils that allow the gas to absorb heat and cool down the air inside the building.

I got that off howstuffworks.com Is it possible that the Freon liquid is not evaporating completely? And one more question. When you run the a/c, usually there is a little pool of water under the car. Where is that coming from?

[BlueFusion6851]

it should come from the right side, sorta in the middle i think...

very intriguing (sp?) thread

[TOYOTA CARS]

There is A/C water but I think that's condensation and it's been there since day one.