Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:31:17 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: How does it leak in?
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for westy's ....
or vans with a curtain on the rear hatch door ..
it was discussed a few years ago that on some vans..
I think it was a screw or two ....like part of the curtain system ..
that could interfere with the rubber seal on the body around the hatch
opening.
like it could keep the seal from seating properly against the hatch door.
A few people got wet beds that way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: How does it leak in?
> Evan, thanks. That explains a lot. I'm going mining for "Unobtanium".
> Maybe I can find a substitute.
>
> John
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
> On 11/7/2011 8:44 PM, Evan Mac Donald wrote:
>> The rear leak I got for ya -
>> It is the sorry excuse for a wiring harness dust boot / weather seal that
>> VW
>> used on the passenger side - ONLY - on our Vanagons.
>> Instead of designing the holes on both sides of the hatch and body to be
>> the
>> same, so ONE design of boot - ONE part number would fit both sides, two
>> different boots are used. They are not intercahangable. The odd one out,
>> the low
>> volume one, on the passenger side, is a diiferent rubber composition than
>> the
>> drivers side; it perishes far more rapidly. Once the tube part of the
>> boot is
>> broken, you will get water in, right at the top of the hatch. And of
>> course it
>> is made of unobtainium. I have been searching for a substitue, but am
>> just about
>> resigned to modifying the holes, and using a boot from the drivers side
>> to fix
>> mine.
>>
>> Evan Mac Donald
>>
>>
>> "...in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history."
>> -Stacy Schiff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: John Rodgers<inua@CHARTER.NET>
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Sent: Mon, November 7, 2011 6:37:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: How does it leak in?
>>
>> I've got the same trouble. Have been unable to find the leak - but it
>> makes a wet spot on the floor on both sides next to the sidewall. Not a
>> flood - but still wet. Also have water coming in on the right rear side
>> back by the hatch. Every time it rains, the carpet over the engine hatch
>> is wet on the right. Haven't found that one either.
>>
>> John
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> Clayartist and Moldmaker
>> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
>> Chelsea, AL
>> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>>
>>
>> On 11/6/2011 11:58 PM, HotelWestfalia wrote:
>>> There are two puddles in the front. One on each side in the front, near
>>> to the
>>> side wall.
>>> I guess, there is something wrong with the windshield seal. But I'm not
>>> sure.
>>> And it's not the antenna hole, it's sealed already.
>>>
>>> I think, it must be something commonly known to some Vanagon guru,
>>> except me.
>>> Who would know this?
>>>
>>> Thank you all,
>>> Zoltan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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