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neilcmusic

Active Member

• Jul 25, 2015

• #1

I've fitted new door tops and within a week the felt runners are soaking and looking awful . most of the water is overflowing from the gutters , the gutters drain holes seem to clear , however the drains have about 5mm of sealant in , is this normal or should they be bare metal ? , also is it inevitable that felt will get wet , it is exposed afterall and you can only seal so much . Also water is dripping onto my right foot by accelerator and I can't see where that is coming from , any help would be appreciated . Thanks

 

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honolulujoe

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• Jul 26, 2015

• #2

the bit on the accelerator may be coming in via the windscreen mounts to the bulkhead, my s3 is doing that at the mo.

 

owl

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• Jul 26, 2015

• #3

It would be odd if it didn't leak. Set up a water sprinkler to simulate rain and fix each leak in turn. I use a smorgasbord of sealers, Dum Dum, butyl tape, PU adhesive sealer etc and sometimes I need a welder.

This might help, I know it is for a defender but much of it applies to Series. http://www.landroverweb.com/Pdf-files/Manuals/Land_Rover_Defender_Water_Ingress_Manual.pdf

 

welshlandy

Active Member

• Jul 26, 2015

• #4

I've tried lots of sealants from gutter joining stuff to bathroom waterproof silicon . And they haven't worked. So I was told of some sealant called "tiger seal" , so when I managed to get hold of some, I set about sealing the roof . First I changed the door seal, to a 90 one piece seal. Once I fitted it, I shut the door and looked up inside to see if the door top was tight to the seal, if it wasn't I tapped the metal that seal was on until it was. Then I scrapped out the gutter and all round, and put a bead of tiger seal in and smoothed it in with my finger, wiping the excess off. I did that all round . Since I did this my footwells have been bone dry.

 

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honolulujoe

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• Jul 26, 2015

• #5

thanks for sharing that link owl, downloaded it to my collection.

 

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neilcmusic

Active Member

• Jul 27, 2015

• #6

Ok , I'll take a look , thanks , just had a look at gutters they may have be filled very high with some sort of sealant , sealant above doors is almost level with gutter so water just sits on it and then overflows around gutter and into top of brand new door tops and soaks felt , also gaps in gutter are only at front so how is water supposed to flow to front when youre on the level ?

 

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neilcmusic

Active Member

• Jul 29, 2015

• #7

Ok just had a look at the guttering , what I thought was sealant was actually the metal on the lip of the roof entering the guttering so it hasnt actually got any sealant in , I can see top of rivets and water is leaking through those , have put some sealant from poundland in there as a temp fix until I can get some better stuff so ill see if that fixes the problem short term

 

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divie

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• Jul 30, 2015

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In 35 years Iv'e never been able to stop a Landie leaking for long. Good luck with it. Sometimes mine did not leak for a while then I parked on the drive facing the other way and.............. well the bugger leaks and fills the footwells.