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Here's the situation: This isn't a mustang, but I figured it shouldn't really matter in this case. My friend has had his 2000 Camaro SS in storage for roughly 6 months. We went out to his mom's house yesterday to change the oil and get it ready to come out next week and found a 'puddle' underneath the engine on the passenger side. It wasn't really a puddle though, it was a dried up white powder, but it left sort of a brownish stain on the concrete under the powder. The puddle is in a sort of oval shape, 2'x1.5'. We came up with a couple possible answers but haven't figured it out yet.
1.) Refrigerant Leak
We checked the A/C and let it run for about 10 minutes. Ice cold. We hooked up a tester to the A/C bottle and it read ~30 PSI, so it doesn't look like it leaked out any refrigerant. If there was a leak, could it just have been a little bit? Or would have emptied the whole A/C system? I mean there's definately a lot of pressure in the system for it to be a leak. Also, my friend didn't really start it up during the 6 months. Maybe once or twice, but he never ran the A/C during those times.
2.) Battery Leak
He also had a the battery hooked up to a charger for quite a bit of time and thought that he may have over-charged the battery. He never disconnected it from the car during the 6 months. We disconnected the positive cable from the battery and it was corroded and was covered in white powder and had white powder inside the terminal. BUT, there was no trail of battery acid down the battery to the ground. Would the battery leak so much as to leave a puddle anyways? Also, we took the battery to Autozone and it came up as a bad battery, so we picked up a new one last night.
3.) A leak from somewhere else...but where?
Another thing: there were no leak trails at all. We found a little bit of the powder on a hose at the bottom most part of the car. I believe the hose was for the A/C, but that's it. No trail at all.
Well, thanks for reading this. Hopefully someone can help us figure out where this came from.
Here's the situation: This isn't a mustang, but I figured it shouldn't really matter in this case. My friend has had his 2000 Camaro SS in storage for roughly 6 months. We went out to his mom's house yesterday to change the oil and get it ready to come out next week and found a 'puddle' underneath the engine on the passenger side. It wasn't really a puddle though, it was a dried up white powder, but it left sort of a brownish stain on the concrete under the powder. The puddle is in a sort of oval shape, 2'x1.5'. We came up with a couple possible answers but haven't figured it out yet.
1.) Refrigerant Leak
We checked the A/C and let it run for about 10 minutes. Ice cold. We hooked up a tester to the A/C bottle and it read ~30 PSI, so it doesn't look like it leaked out any refrigerant. If there was a leak, could it just have been a little bit? Or would have emptied the whole A/C system? I mean there's definately a lot of pressure in the system for it to be a leak. Also, my friend didn't really start it up during the 6 months. Maybe once or twice, but he never ran the A/C during those times.
2.) Battery Leak
He also had a the battery hooked up to a charger for quite a bit of time and thought that he may have over-charged the battery. He never disconnected it from the car during the 6 months. We disconnected the positive cable from the battery and it was corroded and was covered in white powder and had white powder inside the terminal. BUT, there was no trail of battery acid down the battery to the ground. Would the battery leak so much as to leave a puddle anyways? Also, we took the battery to Autozone and it came up as a bad battery, so we picked up a new one last night.
3.) A leak from somewhere else...but where?
Another thing: there were no leak trails at all. We found a little bit of the powder on a hose at the bottom most part of the car. I believe the hose was for the A/C, but that's it. No trail at all.
Well, thanks for reading this. Hopefully someone can help us figure out where this came from.
