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Re: Wet Spit

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Subject: Re: Wet Spit
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 09:36:30 +0000
In article <12a.984cc28.29557a19@wmconnect.com>, 
Ar164super@wmconnect.com writes
>Hello Again Listers,
>
>We're going through a bit of a wet spot here in Northern California. I left
>my Spitfire uncovered the other night and it got caught out in a rainstorm. I
>woke the next morning to find matching puddles of water in the footwells. The
>top seals well, and I just replaced the door weatherstripping. Any clues as
>to where this water may be coming from? I had a thought that it could be
>coming in from the vents in front of the windshield (at the trailing edge of
>the bonnet/hood), so will be doing a water test tomorrow to see if it drips
>through to the floor when I pour it in the vents. Any other possible sources
>I should check?

When this happened to me I traced the problem to (a) poor windscreen 
seal and (b) decayed rubber washers where the windscreen wiper drives 
poke through the bodywork.   YMMV.

ATB

-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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