'81 300cd water draining into passenger floorboard!
Well, I guess the title says it all! The water is gathering in the pass floorboard after I wash it. It doesnt come through the window. I would have seen it happen, and I intentionallly avoided spraying the water up towards the top of the window, cause there is a gap where it can easily go through with this window design. (its a 2 door). I watched for it to be draining into the car from the channel on the roof, it did not. The water is actually under the passenger seat. If anyone knows about how to stop this, it would be fantastic, and I could finally replace the carpet (it had none when I got it).
On another note. The car is running hot 100+ C. I am gonna try the thermostat and hope that will get it down, but it seems like a pretty rare thing that the thermostats are the main culprit. Any suggestions/similar probs/tricks to find the problem are appreciated. Would it be a problem to simply remove the thermostat for the time being? I have done this on several cars before (not diesels) and they have run pretty much perfectly, just take forever to heat up. I have checked the fan clutch and blades and they all seem to be ok. It runs hot even when the clutch is supposed to be pretty much disengaged, at highway speeds.
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