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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 9:04 am | |
| Fred on LongRoof said it's probably coming from the side window, roof seam or possibly the vent window... there's about 3 gallons of water in my driver fender and another half a gallon in the plastic fender tray/cupholder.
boy, am I glad I didn't install my amp and sub in there yet. | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 9:48 am | |
| Yeah, pretty much anyone who owns one. Unplug the drain holes. Live with it. Lol. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 9:50 am | |
| the drain holes in the fender you mean? ugh, guess my amp isn't going in the fender well... | |
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V8Killer
Posts : 1691 Join date : 2009-03-12 Age : 52 Location : Southern, NH
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 12:41 pm | |
| Yup, the joy of a wagon I don't think there is anything in the back that DOES'NT leak..... | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 12:42 pm | |
| great...
I HATE water... if there's one thing that keeps me up at night or wakes me in a cold sweat, it's water. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 1:43 pm | |
| where the hell is the fender drain hole? | |
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SPCS
Posts : 122 Join date : 2012-02-17 Age : 46 Location : Stuttgart, Germany
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 2:07 pm | |
| Should be under the Spare. Unless somebody did some patching down there. In that case, drill. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 2:09 pm | |
| - SPCS wrote:
- Should be under the Spare. Unless somebody did some patching down there. In that case, drill.
Sorry, driver side, not passenger | |
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sdstick
Posts : 4292 Join date : 2009-03-20 Location : Revere, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:19 pm | |
| If the wagons like the sedan, there's a little 1" round knockout ( not knocked out at all) 1/2 way between the rear wheel & the bumper. From underneath look at the vertical sheetmetal.
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:20 pm | |
| someone mentioned the drain being 'clogged' I assumed there was a hole already there. The car was resprayed at one point and I'm wondering if it got sprayed over which clogged it | |
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sdstick
Posts : 4292 Join date : 2009-03-20 Location : Revere, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:22 pm | |
| Nah....probably not....drill thru & dodge the stream Crovo calls them drain holes...cuz....that 's what he makes them | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:24 pm | |
| I'll have to buy some rust inhibitor and primer if I'm drilling through the rear fenders... last thing I want is my rust free wagon to turn into a rot basket | |
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Matt Trakker
Posts : 5093 Join date : 2009-07-30 Age : 42 Location : Reading, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:25 pm | |
| Maybe there's a way to check with a hose, starting down low and moving up, to see where the water is coming in, then use some sealant to stop the leak? | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:28 pm | |
| I'll use my ultrasonic tester when the shop opens up to find it, but it sounds like a pain in the balls to fix. apparently I have to remove the headliner | |
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sdstick
Posts : 4292 Join date : 2009-03-20 Location : Revere, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 3:31 pm | |
| Thats 15yrs worth in there. Drill the hole & fugetaboudit | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 5:12 pm | |
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sdstick
Posts : 4292 Join date : 2009-03-20 Location : Revere, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 5:48 pm | |
| 15 years worth of leaking, collecting, evaporating etc. If you give it a place to go, hit it with undercoat &....just drive. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 7:06 pm | |
| I sucked it all up with a shop vac. Gonna let it dry first. Only about a gallon. | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 7:11 pm | |
| Drill it. Oil it. Done. It leaks from the roof rack, roof cross bars, side windows, vent windows and probably the vista roof doesn't leak. They all come from the factory that way. Boo. Mine are rotted from the inside out on the marshmallow cuz I didn't do that. | |
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bowtiepimp
Posts : 1568 Join date : 2010-06-19 Age : 39 Location : working a corner near you
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 7:18 pm | |
| Is this thread not covered in wagon ownership 101..... | |
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mp775
Posts : 746 Join date : 2011-08-24 Age : 45 Location : Pawtucket, RI / Woburn, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 7:22 pm | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Fri May 04, 2012 8:40 pm | |
| Thankfully mine are still solid.
Thankfully I also have an entire PS wheel wheel in the garage.
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SPCS
Posts : 122 Join date : 2012-02-17 Age : 46 Location : Stuttgart, Germany
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sat May 05, 2012 6:26 am | |
| I'll send you a bucket of Germany's own Mike Sanders Hohlraumfett, if you're willing to cover the shipping... http://www.mike-sander.de/ After that, you'll be able to drive and park your car underwater submarine-style if you have to and not worry about rust ever again. | |
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96Brougham
Posts : 819 Join date : 2009-02-02 Age : 36 Location : Easton MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sat May 05, 2012 7:11 am | |
| - toomanytoyz wrote:
- Drill it. Oil it. Done.
It leaks from the roof rack, roof cross bars, side windows, vent windows and probably the vista roof doesn't leak. They all come from the factory that way. Boo.
Mine are rotted from the inside out on the marshmallow cuz I didn't do that. This. My old blue 96 RMW, the super clean NC car, was filled with water in the drivers rear. Drilled a small hole, problem solved. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 9:10 pm | |
| drilled a 1/4" hole, sprayed both sides with bedliner...
voila | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 9:15 pm | |
| - chapel wrote:
- drilled a 1/4" hole, sprayed both sides with bedliner...
voila Hope you properly dried the fenders, and sanded any rust before you did that or else you just painted over all that moisture. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 9:17 pm | |
| yeah... I... um... wiped it with a paper towel a bit on both ends...
but there was no rust to start with. | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 9:29 pm | |
| yeah, I was planning on doing it again next week anyway... | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 10:05 pm | |
| - chapel wrote:
- yeah, I was planning on doing it again next week anyway...
Much better! I would strip all of that off, dry it off very extensively undercoat it then oil it every oil change. Less waste oil to deal with that way too! | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 10:29 pm | |
| I mean, it's just a 1/4" hole... I was just planning on filing the hole back again to bare metal and spraying it again after drying it properly.
There was no rust or corrosion at all in the inner fender. | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:08 pm | |
| - chapel wrote:
- I mean, it's just a 1/4" hole... I was just planning on filing the hole back again to bare metal and spraying it again after drying it properly.
There was no rust or corrosion at all in the inner fender. No rust at all is all well and good until you undercoat something with moisture trapped underneath it. I would use some POR-15 or SEM rust shield or something first then some undercoating. I just don't know why the factory didn't have a proper drain hole in there | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:14 pm | |
| oh right, I see what you mean... crap, now you got me worried about the areas I blasted just for the hell of it. | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:41 pm | |
| - chapel wrote:
- oh right, I see what you mean...
crap, now you got me worried about the areas I blasted just for the hell of it. Yeah that week of rain wont help either. Scrape that crap off and really treat it well or that Carolina car will look like a Connecticut car in no time. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:43 pm | |
| crap... this stuff isn't going to be easy to scrape off | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:46 pm | |
| - chapel wrote:
- crap... this stuff isn't going to be easy to scrape off
Wire wheel it, if that fails. Heat gun and a paint scrapper. None of that stuff breathes at all so anything under it will just eat the other way out. Kind of like when Rusty Jones wasn't applied right. | |
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chapel
Posts : 836 Join date : 2011-01-28 Age : 42 Location : Salem MA
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Sun May 06, 2012 11:49 pm | |
| that's what I was thinking... ugh, what a mess.
I just wanted to get that water out and a drain drilled before this weeks rain. | |
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1984twodoor
Posts : 4068 Join date : 2010-03-30 Age : 30 Location : Wilmington/Wakefield/Andover
| Subject: Re: anyone ever have their rear fender fill with water (wagons) Mon May 07, 2012 12:52 am | |
| - chapel wrote:
- that's what I was thinking... ugh, what a mess.
I just wanted to get that water out and a drain drilled before this weeks rain. It will certainly help with that, drain is better than no drain! You just don't want to leave that moisture under there for TOOO long. You can let it slide a bit until we finish this false April and actually get into May and its dries that crap up. But remember that rust doesn't sleep! | |
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