another OT car question and liquid breakfast

I'm out under the Jeep and have two puzzeling questions for you auto gurus. Yesterday noticed small leak on garage floor of about CD disc diameter. Liqiud is oil. slightly grey to black with very sweet taste. It trickels from under radiator passenger side. I believe it is comning from front side of radiator. Cannot find source. Checked transmission lines, no evident leaks and wrong side of radiator, also wrong color and taste for trans fluid. Does not taste like regular oil either. Breakfast of fluids today. Liquid is not anti freeze. It is surely a very sweet oil. No decrease in oil, anti freeze or trans fluids. Been having trouble with my AC as it drains into the rear passenger floor. Could this be AC oil? Since apparently AC drain is clogged could pressure build up be causing AC oil leak? Anybody know where the drain hose is located for AC and how to unclog?

I have seen this myself before! I have one in here today as
a matter of fact!!! I found the problem is the drain tube
is plugged even though you say it is clear. I know this
isn't the right fix persay but I pulled the carpet up on
the pass. side and drilled a small hole in the drain tube
housing big enough to put a blow gun into and put shop air
to it! It was like somebody opened a fauset! Then I put a
small plug in the hole I created to seal it! This is alot
faster than taking the box out and seems to have acomplised
what the complaint was all about! I hope this helps.

I've never tasted compressor oil.. or peg oil.. so can't help you there.

What's the oil smell like?.. gas/burn?

Soundguy

Most car a/cs overflow on the passenger side of the dash if they are plugged.

Jack

Posted by Gary Harrison on July 13, 2001 at 17:57:11: via: or 216.118.9.215
In Reply to: 96 Grand Cherokee Loredo: AC leaks into floorboard! posted by Doug on July 13, 2001 at 15:21:22:

There is a procedure for cleaning the drain from the passenger front seat. This is a condensation of the TSB repair procedure developed by Jeep to service the drain from inside the pax compartment w/o removing evaporator case. I have the procedure on Alldata CDROM but apparently there is no way to download to a file that I could send. Following is the procedure:
1) Pull the carpet on front pax side back to expose the circular duct at thebase of the firewall.
2) Drill a 1/4" hole in the center of the circular duct outlet. Water may run out when you drill this opening.
3) Run a coathanger wire or similar through the drilled hole, and down the tube to "rod" it out. Outlet is forward and slightly downward.
4) After clearing the drain, fashion a plug from some handy material. Parts store has various size rubber plugs. Hot melt glue might work.

This will not work if the blockage is above the 1/4" hole opened in the circular duct. This would indicate lots of debris/dirt in your evaporator case, and you'll have remove the case,... bad news. I spent 30-40 hours all told to disconnect all wiring, remove dash assembly, remove evaporator case, replace evaporator, replace dash, reattach all wiring. Nasty!

Good Luck