Hi all!
As someone who just spent way too much time with a water intrusion caused by a number of things, here's a reminder to check and clean your drainplugs for your sunroof; snake them all the way down, and make sure your rocker panels aren't full of water...and clean the pinch welds.
I recently found out about the plug/welds so I will be checking these this weekend, provided the rain stops a bit (Portland/Vancouver Metro area and I don't have a garage).
HERE IS A FANTASTIC DIY LINK about cleaning your drains AND extending the tubs a little bit - Thank you @JerseyCruiser from 2007!
HERE IS A LINK WITH PINCH WELD LOCATIONS (photos) so you know where to look underneath - Thank you @tomatopants from 2007
From experience, if you have water intrusion and it's only on the D/S floor (heavy seepage), it's probably the drain plugs on the sunroof.
I recently found out via another thread that the 1994-1997 has FOUR drain locations on the sunroof - one in each corner and the rears are hard to get to.
If your windshield has been replaced and you cannot verify the gasket was replaced with an OEM gasket, you might want to have it pressure checked and then replaced - a properly sealed windshield gasket, per the 80-series experienced shop I used says "as long as it holds 90psi through the gasket, it's sealed properly". Mine was replaced by the PO and did not use OEM gasket and the windshield shop who did that work did not know the specific way an 80 series needs the gasket installed...this can also cause water leakage behind the dash and cause electrical gremlins (See post #48 in my linked thread for details), which I definitely had.
Have a great spring and summer!
As someone who just spent way too much time with a water intrusion caused by a number of things, here's a reminder to check and clean your drainplugs for your sunroof; snake them all the way down, and make sure your rocker panels aren't full of water...and clean the pinch welds.
I recently found out about the plug/welds so I will be checking these this weekend, provided the rain stops a bit (Portland/Vancouver Metro area and I don't have a garage).
HERE IS A FANTASTIC DIY LINK about cleaning your drains AND extending the tubs a little bit - Thank you @JerseyCruiser from 2007!
HERE IS A LINK WITH PINCH WELD LOCATIONS (photos) so you know where to look underneath - Thank you @tomatopants from 2007
From experience, if you have water intrusion and it's only on the D/S floor (heavy seepage), it's probably the drain plugs on the sunroof.
I recently found out via another thread that the 1994-1997 has FOUR drain locations on the sunroof - one in each corner and the rears are hard to get to.
If your windshield has been replaced and you cannot verify the gasket was replaced with an OEM gasket, you might want to have it pressure checked and then replaced - a properly sealed windshield gasket, per the 80-series experienced shop I used says "as long as it holds 90psi through the gasket, it's sealed properly". Mine was replaced by the PO and did not use OEM gasket and the windshield shop who did that work did not know the specific way an 80 series needs the gasket installed...this can also cause water leakage behind the dash and cause electrical gremlins (See post #48 in my linked thread for details), which I definitely had.
Have a great spring and summer!
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