Rainwater leaking out of heater box

[foxgap]

Car is a 96 OBW and after doing a search I have cleaned the drains under the cowl, cleaned the AC drain in the heater box and it still lets rainwater on to the pass. carpet when the car sits. The funky thing is it does not leak when the car is moving. I removed the fan motor and also found the drip was also coming from a foam seal near the motor. I took a hot knife to that seal and once it was cleared out I replaced it with marine RTV. I also put the RTV around the fan motor seal to seal that up better. The drips have slowed down a bit, but are still coming in every so often. One rain it will leak the next it won't. I'm to the point if we hear it is going to rain hard I pull a tarp over the windshield and the car stays dry. You would think that if the windshield needed sealing it would leak all the time.

 

Any comments are welcome cause if I can't find this problem I'm gonna trade the bugger in on a 97 OBW near here that DOES stay dry.

[mwatt]

You mentioned you cleared the cowl drains but are the front fender drains clear of leaves, pine needles and other debris? You should be able to flood the right cowl area (below the right windshield wiper) with a garden hose and water should pour out from the lower rearmost area of the fender---under the vehicle. If the fender drain is plugged, water will soak the right front floor when the car is parked in the rain.

[foxgap]

Yep, done that. Actually pulled the wheel well liners out and back flushed from there just to make sure I got it all.

 

I have an appointment at the local glass shop to pull the windshied out this coming Wed. There might be rust under it that is letting water in. I'll try anything right now.......

[foxgap]

Just an update, the glass shop found that with the cowl cover removed that there is a hole for one of the pins that hold the plastic piece in place was not doing it's job. When I was pushing the pin in place, the first wind that hit it, the pin popped up and water was running down that hole right into the cold air box. They replaced the pin and uerathaned it in place and so far niether hurricane Irene or any other rain has been dripping into the car. Nice thing about it also was that it only cost $37.10 in labor.

[Olnick]

. . . niether hurricane Irene or any other rain has been dripping into the car.

 

That's a heckuva test!

 

Congrats on the fix.

[foxgap]

Irene was a real pain in the butt, there are people down the road that may not have power back until Friday or so.