leaking, wet, soggy, yuck

mgoldleaf · 06-07-2002, 05:33 AM

72 911 - leaking like I have no windshield gasket...but it is fine!

I am seeing drips from the left and right edges of the dash bottoms and the water seems to be coming from the corner of the windshield. A couple of drips would be one thing but the stuff is streaming in! My new carpets are wet and the end to this rain seems to be nowhere in sight.

I know that I have to get the car inside - but it is my daily driver and I have a F-5000 car in the garage right now. I was thinking of getting some silicone and injecting it in-between the glass and the seal but won't this just move the water further down the seal and let it in elsewhere?

Any suggestions on a fix, another location, or silicon application procedure will be accepted.

Thanks - the car is new to me and I'd hate to get it all musty smelling within the first few weeks.

/marc

john walker's workshop · 06-07-2002, 06:51 AM

"3M windo-weld resealant" should be used along with the flat tipped applicator pump that screws onto the can. a bunch of shop rags and common solvent tank solvent is used to clean up what oozes out. silicone is worthless. it doesn't adhere to anything. you may have rust holes under the gasket if it's as bad as you describe. a couple of holes drilled in the floor for drainage is better than total rot out.

barlowdo · 06-07-2002, 07:10 AM

Wow ! Being from Binghamton , NY myself I can understand what an Upstate NY person is going thru with the rain ! And I am not surprised that a fix suggestion first comes from Seattle.

I like the 3M idea. I will try this myself. Does silicon work on anything ?? I have had no luck with silicon on cars or houses, It always seems to break down fast and fall off, about the only thing I can get silicon to stick to is itself.

And while this subject is on applicators. Does anyone know why WD40 can't make a thread on tube instead of that darn red press on tube that attaches to the nozzle spray head of the can ? I am forever haveing the darn thing pop off and get lost. It is probably a corporate money thing.

-Don - Formerly form Binghamton,NY

Superman · 06-07-2002, 07:15 AM

A can of WD-40 is too light to make a good doorstop, which makes it useless. Just about any other penetrating fluid is better, though they all use the same tiny red straw strategy.

I don't know about 3M stuff, but I have alwasy used Glazing Compound for this kind of application. It's sticky, stays sticky, can eventually be cleaned off and comes in big tubes that fit your caulking gun.

Nothing is worse than water in the cabin.