One More Time: Deep Water on Passenger Side Floor

Jun 10, 2004 3 Replies

I know it's been posted here ad nauseum, but you know how it goes... if it hasn't been a problem for you yet, you tend to not read about it. Anyway, this has been the wettest spring I can remember. We had a rain so hard a couple weeks ago, I had to pull off the road because I was losing my bearings completely! A couple days later, I noticed that it was very, very wet under the floormat of the passenger side of my '98 TJ. I figured that it had rained so hard that it must have poured in around the gaskets of the top-half of the half-doors. Cleaned it up and thought nothing more of it. But now yesterday, driving to work in an "average" rainfall. Floor had a good quarter to half inch of water on it at the end of the day. What are the typical entrance points and fixes? The floor drain plug seems pretty tight/secure.



Thanks.



Mark '98 TJ '98 XJ


door seal, cowl drain blocked (it exits at the rear of the engine bay if you want to check it is clear - prod it with a welding rod to clear it) or air-con dripping condensation.

bet your cowl drain is plugged up.

Yup. That must have been it. Checked it out and I pulled a handful of crap out of there. Thanks Dave and jbjeep!

Mark '98 TJ '98 XJ

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