Maybe try a dehumidifier?Next, this one will be a big job, total interior strip out.
I lifted the rear carpet, underlay is soaked.
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The water is getting in via the seal round the rear door speakers seal that's has disintegrated. The other side is worse.
I'll need a few dry days to tackle this one. I hope to salvage the carpet and just rip out the soaked underlay. Don't know yet if the front footwells are wet or dry.
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Did the screwdriver hole in the floor with an Estelle I was given.ended up with an inch of water in the drivers footwell whilst driving , A hammer and screwdriver soon drained it!
Cor, I remember the Estelle. It was marginally less antique junkpile than its predecessor, but not enough to stop the old Skoda jokes ( whaddya call a Skoda with a Sunroof? A Skip!, The heated rear window being a handwarmer while you push it etc)Did the screwdriver hole in the floor with an Estelle I was given.
Worked fine until driving through a particularly deep puddle water shot up the hole straight up the GF's leg.
After that, for the remaining few weeks of the car, she used to put her feet up on the dash...
Driver's window wound down - bottle bank.Cor, I remember the Estelle. It was marginally less antique junkpile than its predecessor, but not enough to stop the old Skoda jokes ( whaddya call a Skoda with a Sunroof? A Skip!, The heated rear window being a handwarmer while you push it etc)
Mine, although a 63 reg I think was a 1960 car, it had an extra oil seal inside the flywheel with the primary gear being oil fed so the clutch got soaked in oil until I fitted a Deva Bush conversion kit, almost unheard of these days . It also had a conduit for the handbrake cables on the radius arms rather than the later quadrants. The biggest problem , I believe was the front bulkhead to floor joint with the bulkhead being installed on top of the floor so any puddles the car passed through water was scooped up into the car.A leaking Mini? No way
Rear light cluster gaskets leak as well on mk3's. Wifey has had two and both filled the boot when it rained. I made new gaskets from some closed cell foam and used silicon grease when I fitted them.
Coincidentally I also have a '63 Mk1. Still running the narrow tail crank and coil springs rather than diaphragm clutch!
I thought the floor pan lapping leaks only affected the very early '59 launch cars, amazed that a 1960 car was still like that.
(Danger of this turning into a mini nerds thread!)
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They only had several decades to fix the faults.Funnily enough the air cooled weren’t too bad
£3 old pounds that you can't spend
My early Cooper 997 has steel radius arms and tin trumpets.Will get rebuilt one day - has a strange chassis number, not normal the cooper one, I really should find out why.Mine, although a 63 reg I think was a 1960 car, it had an extra oil seal inside the flywheel with the primary gear being oil fed so the clutch got soaked in oil until I fitted a Deva Bush conversion kit, almost unheard of these days . It also had a conduit for the handbrake cables on the radius arms rather than the later quadrants. The biggest problem , I believe was the front bulkhead to floor joint with the bulkhead being installed on top of the floor so any puddles the car passed through water was scooped up into the car.
Schroedinger's Landy.Reminds me of an old joke:
An engineer from Solihull goes to meet his counterparts in Germany when BMW bought JLR.
He goes on a tour of the assembly line, which winds up in the parking garage. At one end is a row of cages full of cats. He asks his counterpart what the cats are for. The reply "ah! We put ze cat in the car and leave it for 24hrs. If the panel gaps & seals are correct when we come back ze cat is dead!"
The engineer is fascinated about this, and immediately on his return to Solihull he borrowed a cat and put it in a brand new defender straight off the line. He goes home. When he returns in the morning, the cat is gone!
Take them to any bank branch (if there are any left) and they will change them for you.£3 old pounds that you can't spend