I have a rusted out pan in the indoor coil unit. It is a split system and sits on top of the heater. It is dripping all over now that the air conditioner is running and keeps flooding the basement. I had the plumber out and he is trying to sell me a complete system. I dont need a whole new system, the air conditioning system works great and keeps the house nice and cold. I am tired of having to empty the bucket that I have under the one corner where it leaks (the low spot) So while he was here I was watching and when he pulled the panel off and I could see the coils the pan under it was rusted out and there was water under the pan and around it. Cant I just replace that pan? why do I have to buy a whole new system. Where would I get a pan? Would I have to have one custom made. They want $3500 for a system when all I need is a rusty pan replaced. HELP

Ok Let me start by saying this I think that my compressor is overheating. let me follow that up by begging for you guys to tell me I am wrong. Here is the issue as far as I can tell. We started having issues with our AC unit, A Rheem Classic, at the end of last week. Being on a single income currently I did some research and decided I could fix this my self.:wall: What it was doing was running for a bit, one to two hours, and then the fan would cut out and not come back on though I could still hear the compressor working. I was getting no where, I would cut all the power to it, and go out open it up, look at it and pretend that I had any clue what I was doing when my wife would come out to check one me. I think she was just coming out to make sure I had not electrocuted my self. I would put everything back together turn on the power and everything would start working for a while. but then the fan would cut out again. At one point I decided to poke the fan with a screw driver, not for a diagnostic reason, mostly just because I was mad at it, and low and behold it kicked on. I did some more research and came to the conclusion that it was the capacitor, and replaced it. That seemed to fix it. That was 4 days ago. Today it started acting up again, it will run for a while then cut out and not come back on. this time when I took it apart I felt the compressor, and it seemed hot. I also touched one of the copper lines going into the compressor, or coming out...can't really tell and it felt really hot. We have not made any changes to the ac unit, other than the capacitor and a good cleaning. The possibility exists that this could be the fan motor going bad, and that does seem like a cheaper fix. Please help, we are yanks, this southern heat is killing us.