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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: MarkG on 10 July 2008, 14:46:47

Title: AC Evaporator
Post by: MarkG on 10 July 2008, 14:46:47

After spending over an hour crawling over my AC pipework and already having fitted a new condensor and valves me and the AC guy managed to find green dye dripping from one of the lambda sensor cables where is disappears up over the auto gearbox. The AC man reckons it must be a leaking evaporator which is up inside the dash. Does this seem reasonable and is replacing it a tricky job? Is it really a dash out job?  

Title: Re: AC Evaporator
Post by: Kevin Wood on 10 July 2008, 15:05:39

Well, the condensate drain pipes exit just above the gearbox so it sounds plausible that a leak from the evaporator would result in dye ending up there.  :(

I think you can get at the side of the evaporator if you remove the glove box, heater ducting and fan motor. Not sure it it can be slid out after disconnection or if you need to pull the whole dash out.  :-/

Kevin

Title: Re: AC Evaporator
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 10 July 2008, 15:08:06

You can get it out  with the glove box, heater motor and duct etc removed.....the hardest bit is removing the bolt for the right angled pipes that connect between it and the bulk head.

Title: Re: AC Evaporator
Post by: MarkG on 11 July 2008, 16:36:16

How many hours do you reckon to take the old one and fit a new (2nd hand) one?