Hello,

Today, I noticed that I have a puddle of water outside my furnace.
After closer investigation, it seems that the leak is coming from the
inducer.
It seems that this must have been going on for a while, because there
is a
lot of surface rust on all metal below the inducer. Also, when the
furnace shuts
off, I can see water dripping down into the bottom of the furnace.

I don't really know how the inducer works, but I have disconnected
all the hoses and poked around, and when I disconnected the hoses
from the trap (I think that is a trap), water came GUSHING out of the
hoses.
This only happened one time. I tried it a few hours later (when the
furnace
was leaking again), and it didn't happen again.

This makes me think that the trap is messed up? But how does
the trap break, there are no moving pieces? Could it get clogged? I
took it off and ran water through it, and it seems to not be clogged.

Do I need that trap? Can I just take the two hoses that go into the
trap and tee them into the drain hose?


What else could be wrong? (in case the trap is not the cause)?
The inducer is a swirlwind, and the age of the whole furnace is circa
1991
or so.

Thanks in advance