I've been losing coolant recently and until today I havn't been able find where from. There hasn't been a noticable puddle until today. So I jacked up the car and noticed the dripping coming from a small hose (aproxametly 1/4 in in diam.). It's located on the passenger side of the car aproximently 1ft towards the center of the car and 1ft forward from the catalytic converter. It's two hoses which seem to be coming from the engine bay, but it seems as though an L fitting is missing or something like that. The liquid appears to be clear but tastes like there is coolant.
My sister has my camera right now, but I will get some pics up tomorrow.

(92 accord EX)

 

There are 2 hoses that I can think of that you may be seeing. First one is the condensation hose from the A/C the second being an overflow hose for the coolant reservoir. If coolant is leaking from there yet the reservoir is within the min/max areas you may have a bad radiator cap that isnt allowing your car to properly build up pressure.

 

I'm losing coolant from the resv. I just put 2 cups of coolant/water mix in this afternoon and used duct tape to seal the hose which was leaking as a temp fix. I noticed that the temp rose faster today than regularly.

Why would the overflow hose go all the way out of the engine bay then back in?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CmptchAV6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">There are 2 hoses that I can think of that you may be seeing. First one is the condensation hose from the A/C the second being an overflow hose for the coolant reservoir. If coolant is leaking from there yet the reservoir is within the min/max areas you may have a bad radiator cap that isnt allowing your car to properly build up pressure.</TD></TR></TABLE>

overflow hose????????? man what are you talking about???? it sounds to me like a coolant bypass hose ...yo zumie replace the hose, fill radiator, test your cap and pressure test cooling system and a word of advice save some money to replace all the cooling hoses at once or you will be doing this 1 at a time

 

Heres the pictures. I appologize for the poor quality. I have no idea what eithor of the hoses are. It was the one on the left which was leaking the coolant/water. The one on the right has a fitting (sort of) attached and is attached to the underbody.

 

the 1 on the left is suppose to discharge water it is the a/c evap discharge hose ,,it gets rid of the condensation that builts in the evap so water out of there is normal

the 1 on the right where ur finger is pointing is the tube for the charcoal canister there should be no fluid coming out of there

 

so what would cause so much water to come out of that hose? Like when I jacked up it up to take the pictures in 10 min time, i bet I lost .5 cups of water. It sped up when it was all the way jacked up (greater angle). Thats the only leaking I have found.
What's a charcol cannister?

 

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Charcoal canister is used to collect fuel fumes from the intake manifold and gas tank when the engine is not running instead of letting fuel fumes evaporate to the atmosphere to create polution. At certain times while driving (not cold and not decellerating) a valve will open drawing the fumes and possible liquid gas into the engine to be burned like normal gas.

As for your leak you need to run the AC to see if that is the drain hose that is leaking, is your antifreeze colored, is your leak colored, if not then its not antifreeze.

 

Air Conditioning condensation drain....normal to **** water in hot weather........or did I miss something ?