2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission my floor is wet

[Texas Diesel]

I lifted up my floor mat and it the padding is wet. Checked my 98 and it is wet too. More on drivers side than passenger side. The A/C drains are open too. What gives? No smell either.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Long time between rest stops?



OH, sorry, you said no smells...

 

[TurboDog]

Mine was soaked, and was coming in from the rear cargo light and ending up in the pasenger floor board. Do a search, there was all kinds of info, some even coming from the A/C drain, which was fixed by adding a piece of heater hose to extend it and point it down.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Starting to hear more of these type complaints since warmer weather is here - guess I'd better check my AC drain as well...

 

[jersey diesel]

Tejaas, why the 2 cycle oil? just wondering. TKS

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Tejaas, why the 2 cycle oil? just wondering.



Not Tejas - but the oil is to add lubricity to the fuel to help the pumps live a bit longer - I use it as well...

 

[rblomquist]

Are you guys just using the cheapo 2 stroke oils or are you using quality stuff? The reason I ask is because I've seen first hand the big difference in those oils specifically in regard to ash content.



Just curious on the concept... ... ... ... ... ... .....

 

[Texas Diesel]

Ash content is a good question. The lower the better; what do you see as far as brands?



I use Walmart brand 2 cycle oil. From the boat-nut site I frequent the consensus is that Wally oil is repackaged Quick Silver oil. Good stuff.



I would really like to know more about the ash content thing though. Ash = bad news I cant pull a spark plug and look at the tip, too much work to pull an injector just for a peek.



Why? Like Gary said, lubricity. There is another TDR member who has 250K on his 98-99 VP-44 and he has added 2cycle oil since new. He is convinced (and me too) that the added lubricity is the reason it is going strong at 250k miles. I prefer 2 cycle oil because it is all lubrication; I dont want cetane boosters, antigel etc. just want some light oil to keep the expensive VP-44 slippery. 2 Cycle oil is very cost effective.

 

[Hohn]

I like the Redline two stroke oils. VERY expensive, but also exceptionally clean.



I do not use 2-stroke oil in my CTD though. I just would rather use an actual diesel additive.



jlh

 

[RT66DOC]

The NAPA part # for the A/C drain extension is #9808. Here:



http://www.napaonline.com/cgi-bin/n...tail.d2w/report?prrfnbr=15581240&prmenbr=5806

 

[mkhenry]

My passenger side floor board would get soaking wet also. Replaced rear window and RTVed the third brake light cover and still had water in floor. So, I cleaned out the evaporator as well as I could by reaching through the hole where the fan was mounted and then ran a bunch of water through it to clean out the muck. I noticed that the A/C drain was just a tube sticking about 1 inch through the firewall insulation and the insulation was always wet. Got a 90 degree plastic elbow and some tubing and extended the drain down behind the inner fenderwell. Haven't had a problem all summer. Didn't know NAPA had an extension kit for this problem. I had all the stuff for my mod on hand so cost was zip.

 

[rblomquist]

Originally posted by Tejas Deezul

Ash content is a good question. The lower the better; what do you see as far as brands?



I use Walmart brand 2 cycle oil. From the boat-nut site I frequent the consensus is that Wally oil is repackaged Quick Silver oil. Good stuff.

Yamalube 2r is a very good quality semi-synthetic; I read in a mag that it's the #1 selling 2-smoke oil (at least in the off-road community). I also heard that the wally world oil is quicksilver. Bel-ray makes a real good synthetic oil as well. Right now I've switched over to amsoil 2-smoke oils after being a life-long Yamalube user; the Amsoil stuff is absolutely amazing.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Wallmart sells Pennzoil synthetic blend, supposedly an ashless 2-stroke oil of excellent quality - about $10 a gallon - it's what I use...