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  Has anyone experienced any under dash leaks on these? I have a mystery. 1995 Impreza....drips from the AC evaporator during rain and mostly when the car is facing uphill. Sometimes a lot if the car is position just right! (AC in not running, so it's not AC evap water). Now facing downhill , no leaks. It appears to drip from the very bottom of the evap case. Could it be entering through the cowl/windshield? Everything else seems dry up under the dash. Leaves clogging something?

 

Thanks for your thoughts!

Todd

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SUBARU3,

 

I spent a couple of nights this weekend looking at many YouTube video fixes for sunroof leaks, fixes, and brake rebuilds, and came across one showing the same thing you're complaining about. This was on a 06 outBack, but the same issue may apply to your car.

 

The guy placed a running garden hose just above the windshield on the passenger side, and allowed a water spread of 18 inches wide to flood down the glass and on to the cowl. Water then dripped from the bottom of the heater fan housing.

 

He popped out the plastic plugs of the cowl and discovered that Subaru had placed one of those cowl plugs right over the raised opening of the heater intake to the cabin filter and such. The water was leaking through the plug hole when the plug was installed and dripped right into the intake opening.

 

His fix was to take a plastic bottle that juice came in (one that is longer and wider than the air intake opening, cut one side out of it, and placed it loosely over the air intake opening. When the cowl was again reattached with its plugs, it kept the bottle container in place, but still allowed air to be sucked in from around the bottle's sides and ends, and shunted the water over the top of the air intake to drain away as it should. His after video showed no more water leaking inside. His fix, still allowed the plugs to be pulled if further dismantling was required.

 

Could your setup be the same?

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