
05-05-2008, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: San Francisco, Ca.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by La Voce
Hi Grant,
Also, drill out the rivets that retain the front fender access panels, the drain tube for the sunroof is in there, and it's the drain point for the cowl. All the debris that fell down in there through the cowl over the years is clogging the drain slit in there and may be rusting.
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Being that this was my car for the past 8 or 9 years, I'll chime in as well. Jim, this car doesn't have a sunroof, but the cowls were all cleaned out (along with the insides of the doors) at least 3 times during my ownership. The first time, I'll removed all the usual junk you find accumulated from the cowl, after that - it was pretty clean and became just routine checks.
My hunch is that the rust may be not as bad as Mjr suggests, with the worst being the lower front windscreen. The car has lived a fairly pampered life from day one in the SF Bay area, with the exception of about 1 year, it was always garaged. When I bought it, I did scrape the surface rust off and applied Por-15 and some black paint, and the areas I did that to did not progress much at all during the time I had it.
HTH
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