Gah! water in my floor board

[darthcual]

Has anyone else experienced this problem. Project Bad Intentions has me befuddled as to where the water is coming from. The interior is completely stripped except for the upper dash and driverside seat. Found a small amount of rust on my passenger side back seat floor. Was able to sand it out, then hit it with some rustoluem. Today, while at work and the car sitting outside it rained like the devil. After the storm stopped I went outside and the driverside back seat floor was like a kiddie pool. Additionally, their was a little water on the passenger side back. Is it coming thru the seat bolts? Please help, cuz I want to get the carpet back in so I can have my seats and console back. Thanks.

 

[bubba-dough]

Your quarter windows, maybe.

 

[jh73]

Heater Core

 

[darthcual]

Not heater core. Thats been replaced, and were talking bout rear seat floor pan. I thought quarter windows but as I stated the trim is out and I could see no water running down. Oh and the weatherstripping is new so thats not it either.

 

[jh73]

Do you have a sunroof? Mine leaks when it rains realy hard.

 

[darthcual]

No sunroof, Its a coupe if that helps.

 

[bubba-dough]

Maybe the sunroof drain hose has a leak. jh73, take you headliner down and take the white mounts off that the front of your sunroof slides into, clean everything and put some gasket maker on the mounting side. Make sure your drain hoses are on all the way. Also change the body to sunroof weatherstripping. Usually the glass weatherstripping has nothing to do with water leaking

 

[jh73]

Maybe the sunroof drain hose has a leak. jh73, take you headliner down and take the white mounts off that the front of your sunroof slides into, clean everything and put some gasket maker on the mounting side. Make sure your drain hoses are on all the way. Also change the body to sunroof weatherstripping. Usually the glass weatherstripping has nothing to do with water leaking

Will do! Thanks

 

[Fishhawk]

Time get the garden hose out and have a friend spray the windows with you inside.

 

[darthcual]

Time get the garden hose out and have a friend spray the windows with you inside.

Yeah did this b4 but of course I never sprayed the underside to see if it was coming in from there. Hmmmmm.....

 

[srothfuss]

Park your car in a garage. make sure it's dark in the garage and inside your car (piece of cardboard helps)

have a buddy or your wife walk around the door frame with a flash light. You shouldn't be able to see any light shine through.

Possible areas:
1) Dew strip
2) 1/4 window
3) upper part of the door
4) rear hatch area

 

[$uperstang]

your screwed

 

[darthcual]

your screwed

very insightfull thanks. Thanks for the tips srothfuss i'll give it a try.

 

[darthcual]

K for those who have the same problem i figured it out. There is a lil metal oval piece right in the middle of the floor board back seat that is held in with metal tabs and sealed with a rubber gasket. The gasket had went bad and was letting water in from underneath the car. I tore the gasket away, took the oval metal piece out, sanded it down, and am going to JB weld it back in tommorrow. Cheers

 

[srothfuss]

K for those who have the same problem i figured it out. There is a lil metal oval piece right in the middle of the floor board back seat that is held in with metal tabs and sealed with a rubber gasket. The gasket had went bad and was letting water in from underneath the car. I tore the gasket away, took the oval metal piece out, sanded it down, and am going to JB weld it back in tommorrow. Cheers

Glad you figured it out... I'll add that one to the list of places water can enter the car from. I guess it has to rain really hard for that to happen.

 

[trents99]

Ok I'm confused. If your car was parked, it rained like hell, then how would it leak up through the floor?

FWIW my coupe leaked in the exact same area. Mine was the 1/4 window. I pulled them off to put new ones in and found a section about 1/2 long on top of the window where the seal under the window was flawed from the factory.

 

[gt40_2003wes]

yea i dont get it didnt he say his car was parked outside at work? how does it come through the floor?

 

[darthcual]

It rained like hell thats how. Get under neath ur car sometime and look at the area around your passenger side floorboard. You'll see two little tabs sticking down inside of an oval shape. That oval is held in by tabs and sealed from the inside (under the carpet) with a gasket. It was raining sideways so i'm sure the rain hitting the ground jumped up in there. I only needed to take the garden hose to the underside of that area to confirm my suspetions.

 

[rd]

All four of my Foxes leak some. Mostly, its at the top of the door.

Apparently the door frame gets bent outward slightly over time and does not seal perfectly. My T roof car stays in the garage, the rest just get dried out later.

My 82 has no carpet, so I just repaint every so often.

 

[bubba-dough]

Watch water run down sufaces sometime. It is weird but water will baffle the crap out of you, it can run back up something (all it takes is a force behind it, like the very force of water running behind it from a hard rain). My brother had a leak in his pole barn where water was running down the roof and then up under and across and back up, then dripping down. 5 contractors later they found it and it is fixed.

rd: Are you sure its not the sunroof? They will leak as if its the top of the door. Out of all the foxes I have owned as well as my buddies, I have never seen a door leak. But they all had water dripping at the top of the door. After doing what I mentioned above to jh73 there has been no more problems with anyone.