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Bad smelling air through vents.
I have an 84 Chrysler New Yorker and when I turn the air on, the air has a
bad smell coming through the vents for the first few minutes then it goes away. Now I did have the car setting up for a while (almost 2 years) and drove it very seldom during this period. So is there something that builds up in the duct lines when you let a car sit up? Is there anything I can do to clean it out? -- Thanks in advance. |
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If it smells a bit like horse sweat, it could be a/c refrigerant.
"Mark T." > wrote in message ... >I have an 84 Chrysler New Yorker and when I turn the air on, the air has a > bad smell coming through the vents for the first few minutes then it goes > away. Now I did have the car setting up for a while (almost 2 years) and > drove it very seldom during this period. So is there something that builds > up in the duct lines when you let a car sit up? Is there anything I can do > to clean it out? > -- > Thanks in advance. > > > |
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You got some good answers over on the other group.
Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's "Mark T." wrote: > > I have an 84 Chrysler New Yorker and when I turn the air on, the air has a > bad smell coming through the vents for the first few minutes then it goes > away. Now I did have the car setting up for a while (almost 2 years) and > drove it very seldom during this period. So is there something that builds > up in the duct lines when you let a car sit up? Is there anything I can do > to clean it out? > -- > Thanks in advance. |
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Arthur wrote:
> If it smells a bit like horse sweat, it could be a/c refrigerant. I don't think so. Horse sweat smells like ammonia, and there hasn't been ammonia in car refrigeration systems... well... EVER. And it hasn't been used in any other kind of consumer refrigeration system since the 1930s. Both R-134a and R-12 (the only OEM automotive refrigerants) are odorless, although the oils that escape with them have an odor somewhat like transmission fluid. |
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Perhaps you've been providing free rent to a family of mice for two
years. They left some presents and even some of their loved ones. |
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This could def be the case... but the smell would not go away after a
while, it would get worse. If it smells sweet (like coolant) it could be the heater core. You usually smell it initially, but after time you either get used to it and don't notice it anymore, or it leaks so slowly that the initial smell was the result of sitting for an extended perios of time. Sometimes the pump could be at fault... if it smells like burning, but not like a mouse is on fire, it could be the pump or a belt. |
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Jack VR4 wrote:
> > ...not like a mouse is on fire... Oh don't you just hate it when that happens! My cat doesn't know what to do in those situations! Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my adddress with the letter 'x') |
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