60wag
SILVER Star
My passenger carpet gets wet when it rains or with melting snow sitting on the truck. I have read numerous wet carpet threads and tried lots of fixes but am still stumped. What makes my problem different from what I have read so far is that I have water dripping out of the heater blower recirculate door on the bottom of the blower housing.
It’s not a leaking heater core. I have red coolant in the engine and what is dripping isn’t red.
It’s not AC condensate. The truck will sit for weeks parked in front of my house. The carpet only gets wet when it rains, (or snow melt on the truck). Didn’t move the truck, never turned on the AC, the carpet gets wet. I pulled the AC drain tube anyhow and confirmed everything is clear. When I drive the truck and use the AC, the carpet doesn’t get wet.
I checked the sunroof drains. I poured water into the drains and it comes out the rocker slots onto the ground, no drips inside. I pushed a wire through the drain tubes and pulled down the headliner to make sure that the tubes were properly attached to the sunroof pan. Everything looked dry and tight.
I have had the windshield replaced. It was installed with a brand new OE gasket and had urethane sealant placed on both the glass and metal sides. Recently I tried using some colored construction paper as a indicator to trace leaks. If the paper gets wet, the color runs and indicates moisture even if it dries. I taped strips of the colored paper below the corners of the windshield tucked in behind the dashboard. When the carper gets wet, the paper indicators stay dry.
I also put some paper indicators along the upper front edge of the carpet, (above the passenger’s toes). No water appears to be coming down the inside of the firewall.
I also put paper around the wiring bundle behind the kick panel. There IS a trace a water there. It could be dripping from the blower housing above but hard to tell.
The caulking in the gutter looks pretty good. The door seal is in-tact. If water were dripping onto the open-door stop mech and then running into the quarter panel, would that drip onto the wiring? I doubt it would get into the blower housing.
So I can see water dripping from the blower housing door and a bit behind the kick panel.
I disassembled the wipers and the wiper linkage cover. It was quite clean in there. I was able to pour water in there from the garden hose and have it drain to the ground with no apparent leakage inside.
I could remover the dash to get a clear view of the top of the heater box and maybe see more clues but what a PITA. At this point I’m tempted to fit a small bucket around the blower housing to see if that catches almost all of the drip.
Any other ideas?
It’s not a leaking heater core. I have red coolant in the engine and what is dripping isn’t red.
It’s not AC condensate. The truck will sit for weeks parked in front of my house. The carpet only gets wet when it rains, (or snow melt on the truck). Didn’t move the truck, never turned on the AC, the carpet gets wet. I pulled the AC drain tube anyhow and confirmed everything is clear. When I drive the truck and use the AC, the carpet doesn’t get wet.
I checked the sunroof drains. I poured water into the drains and it comes out the rocker slots onto the ground, no drips inside. I pushed a wire through the drain tubes and pulled down the headliner to make sure that the tubes were properly attached to the sunroof pan. Everything looked dry and tight.
I have had the windshield replaced. It was installed with a brand new OE gasket and had urethane sealant placed on both the glass and metal sides. Recently I tried using some colored construction paper as a indicator to trace leaks. If the paper gets wet, the color runs and indicates moisture even if it dries. I taped strips of the colored paper below the corners of the windshield tucked in behind the dashboard. When the carper gets wet, the paper indicators stay dry.
I also put some paper indicators along the upper front edge of the carpet, (above the passenger’s toes). No water appears to be coming down the inside of the firewall.
I also put paper around the wiring bundle behind the kick panel. There IS a trace a water there. It could be dripping from the blower housing above but hard to tell.
The caulking in the gutter looks pretty good. The door seal is in-tact. If water were dripping onto the open-door stop mech and then running into the quarter panel, would that drip onto the wiring? I doubt it would get into the blower housing.
So I can see water dripping from the blower housing door and a bit behind the kick panel.
I disassembled the wipers and the wiper linkage cover. It was quite clean in there. I was able to pour water in there from the garden hose and have it drain to the ground with no apparent leakage inside.
I could remover the dash to get a clear view of the top of the heater box and maybe see more clues but what a PITA. At this point I’m tempted to fit a small bucket around the blower housing to see if that catches almost all of the drip.
Any other ideas?