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348 strange leak... need help

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  1. brent Lachelt

    brent Lachelt Formula 3

    Dec 6, 2003
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    Could use some help on trying to figure out a couple things. I have a 91 348tb. I noticed after pulling the car out of my garage, with my newly painted garage floor, that up from where the front of the car was parked there was a small pancake size puddle of water (A/C condensation). However, within a couple of inches of the puddle was 2 small pea sized drops of fluid that tasted and looked like brake fluid. Not close enough to be coming from the calipers. Any thoughts? Secondly, I drove the car around a bit with the A/C on and came back in the garage and parked it. Got out and looked underneath and the condensation was dripping nicely, except it wasn't coming out of the tube. It was dripping from behind some of the vents of the undertray next to the tube. I thought the A/C condensation was only supposed to drain out of the tube. I'm putting the car on a lift Saturday. Any advice would be appreciated. Especially as it relates to those two small drips.
     
  2. No Doubt

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    ABS actuator??
     
  3. brent Lachelt

    brent Lachelt Formula 3

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    Not sure where that is, will look in the spare parts catalog. Can it be accessed from the bottom panels to check or by removing the front trunk liner?
     
  4. brent Lachelt

    brent Lachelt Formula 3

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    UPDATE: I think everything is OK at least as it relates to the two drops of brake fluid. I removed the front trunk liner and looked at the ABS acuator and all the connections up by the fluid reservoir and everything is dry. The hose hanging down that I see underneath the car is not an a/c condensation tube, but rather an overflow/breather for the brake fluid reservoir that is connected to the top of the cap. The fluid is currently over the max line in the reservoir close to the top. I recently had a spirited drive the day before that included some heavy braking. It appears that the two drops were just some fluid that came down the overflow/breather tube. Page 135 (the a/c page) is missing out of my 1993 348tb/ts parts catalog (the last page would'nt you know). So I don't know if the condensation is supposed to just drain like it's currently doing from that vent (slat) in the undertray. The only tube hanging underneath that I could see is that brake fluid overflow tube.
     
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  6. brent Lachelt

    brent Lachelt Formula 3

    Dec 6, 2003
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    Daniel thanks so much. It was the only page missing. Everything is just fine on the 348. There is no tube that drains a/c condensation ala 308/328. It is a vent that it drains from instead. However, I was able to do some cleaning and decreasing of the bottom of the car and gearbox while the car was up in the air on my friends lift.
     

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