Late last year we had a lot of heavy, heavy rains here and I was suddenly chasing down my own lake cherokee and lake wagoneer. One of the leaks about drove me nuts. Turned out to a slightly not closed rear passanger side window I never look at. It was about a 1/4" from being fully closed. I never saw it leak, only found the 1-2" puddle in the mornings after the big rains. Since the water was always on the front seat floor and not the back seat floor, I never looked at the back window, until I washed the jeep one day and noticed water running down the wrong side of one window:cheers:. You get one guess as to which window it was! That fixed the Wagoneer.
The Cherokee turned out to be the radio antenna seal. The rubber seal had come out of the hole. Sealed it up with 35 year siliconized acrylic latex caulk (residential window stuff, works great on cars, waterproof, UV & Mildew proof, non shrinking......!!!! and costs about 1/3 of what the automotive caulks cost).
Anyway, I wish you luck finding that (those?, shiver) leaks, seems this is an all too common, multi source problem with our jeeps. I dread the day I find new leak.
By the way, PornstaR forgot to mention moving to antarctica, I hear it never rains there (not yet anyway), but then again with global warming that may not last long either.
So have you tried opening the hood and flooding the firewall with a garden hose. I assume you have a tried a garden hose on the windshield, roof, etc., already? How about the plastic (?) fender well covers behind the tires, not that they seal but they do ak as spash guards when going through water.
EMSJEEP said:
:looser: smartass...anyway the water was coming from up higher than what I was driving in...
Some thoughts:
Heater Core
Door seals
AM/FM coax entry
holes under the plastic things at the base of the windshield
All of these places have now been sealed.
When I looked under the black grates there were holes, big ones, covered with tape that was falling off. That has been fixed. Also, the AM/FM radio coax entry is in a perfect place to cause that leak, it has been sealed too.