'86 XJ-S;
Well, it’s the same old problem. Water in the car. I have sealed the
windscreen, even removing the chrome strip on the roofline and ‘A’
pillars, sealing under there also. Sealer between body and gasket and
glass and gasket.
I cleaned out the drains inside the wiper motor well. The water drains
quickly down the tubes to the fender liners as it should. The A/C
doesn’t work yet, so there’s no condensate from there.
It has been raining for over 20 hours, with more on the way, water is
steadily coming from under the dash on the drivers side(LHD). Water is
pouring all over the relays and fuses. The wipers won’t work now. It
will probably start smelling like a wet old dog. You must drive barefoot
because of the waterfall from under the dash. Where the hell is this
damn water coming in!!! I can’t stop the flood! Where else can I look?–
Harry & Adrianne in the Sunshine State.
'86 XJ-S, Hers
'78 Lotus Eclat, His
“Life is too short to drink cheap beer”
Hi there - this may be a long shot, but is the water coming in throught
the upper AC blower ducts? these have about 1/4 inch upturn where the
reach up into the air intake duct, if the duct drains are blocked the
water might rise high enough to flow into the car from here. It’s the
only other place I can think of!
Good luck,
Martin Sellars
Symbionics Ltd
Cambridge Science Park
Cowley Road
Cambridge CB4 4Ws
+44 01223 421025
88xjs3.6man
83sIII4.2 auto
85sIII3.4 5sp>-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Trafford [SMTP:traff@ICON.HMSD.UFL.EDU]
Sent: 10 June 1997 08:48
To: xjs list
Subject: [xj-s] It STILL leaks water!'86 XJ-S;
Well, it’s the same old problem. Water in the car. I have sealed the
windscreen, even removing the chrome strip on the roofline and ‘A’
pillars, sealing under there also. Sealer between body and gasket and
glass and gasket.
I cleaned out the drains inside the wiper motor well. The water drains
quickly down the tubes to the fender liners as it should. The A/C
doesn’t work yet, so there’s no condensate from there.
It has been raining for over 20 hours, with more on the way, water is
steadily coming from under the dash on the drivers side(LHD). Water is
pouring all over the relays and fuses. The wipers won’t work now. It
will probably start smelling like a wet old dog. You must drive barefoot
because of the waterfall from under the dash. Where the hell is this
damn water coming in??!! I can’t stop the flood! Where else can I look?Harry & Adrianne in the Sunshine State.
'86 XJ-S, Hers
'78 Lotus Eclat, His
“Life is too short to drink cheap beer”
Well, it’s the same old problem. Water in the car…Where else can I
look?>–
On my 85XJS I removed the two drain pipes that go from the firewall to the
fenders. I have no idea why it cured it, but I never find water in the car
anymore. The drain from the firewall just runs down the firewall to the
ground now, similar to the XJ6
Jim I.
“80% of success is showing up” Woody Allen
1970 XKE 2+2, 1985 XJS, 1985 XJ6, 1974 Bricklin, 1979 Lola Formula Atlantic
1978 Roberts 44’ steel ketch, “Millennium Falcon”
Hello everybody,
At 03:48 AM 6/10/97 -0400, >Harry & Adrianne in the Sunshine State> wrote:
Well, it’s the same old problem. Water in the car…Where else can I
look?>–
There is an opening in the driver side front fender that may be providing a
route for water into the car. A similar opening is present on the passanger
side.
If you open the driver’s side door and peer into/under the fender area just
below the point at which the A-pillar meets the hood (sorry, bonnet!)
surface at the bottom of the windscreen you’ll see (at least on my 85 XJ-S)
a small squarish opening on the side of the body. This opening is just
ahead of a drain rail that routes water from the hood (darn, bonnet!) back
onto a similar drain rail on the front door.
I believe that under the right conditions, water runing in the drain rail
from the bonnet area spills over into this opening and from there finds its
way onto the underscuttle below the dash producing a lovely tropical forest
ambiance in our finely engineered automobiles.
I had this problem every time that I washed my car only. It never leaked
while running!. Apparently, the conditions for overflow ocurred only while
the car was standing. I solved the problem by simply taping over the
openings on each side. The problem has not reocurred since. Maybe it’ll
work for others as well. Best regards,
Rob W-M
85 XJ-S
Harry Trafford traff@ICON.HMSD.UFL.EDU wrote:
Harry-
Do you have a sunroof on your car? On my '84 with sunroof, there are four
drains in the sunroof “box”- the front pair of drains go down thru the
A-pillars
on each side of the windshield. If these drains weren’t working right, it
could
send a lot of water down there…
Sounds like you’ve checked most everything else.
I’ve traced leaks on other cars by watching inside while someone doused
the exterior with a garden hose. Sometimes some interior dissassembly
is required to see where the water is coming from.
Good luck!
Brian Sherwood
Brazil, Indiana (currently monsoon season :)Subject: '86 XJ-S; It STILL leaks water!