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Like I needed something else to do...


AllanD

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East-Central Pennsylvania
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1987... sorta
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Going out this morning to pull my Y-pipe and drivers side header
to fix an annoying exhaust leak I discover that thanks to last
night's "Noah! Build an ARK!" type rain that my truck is parked
in a lake... No problem I'll move it... So I walk around to the
driver's side open the door and sit down... SQUISH!!!

the seat is SOAKED... Oh crap, what now what? To be honest I knew I had a minor leak where my 2m/440 antenna base broke off and has a bolt and a rubber washer plugging the 3/8" diameter hole...

But that leak is "sensitive" to how I park the truck (angle so the rain runs off)

But this.... ARRRRGGGGGH!

So dropping all other plans for the day I start removing my headliner
dammit I'm gonna get to the bottom of this MAJOR aggrevation...

Well I found the problem... the Urethane adhesive I used to glue
the extruded aluminum frame of my Bronco2/Explorer sunroof to
the roof panel has "released" itself from the roof skin...

It held perfectly since I put the sunroof in back in October '96
(The job actually got interrupted by a freak late october snowstorm)

I FINISHED installing it Halloween evening 1996. (Yeah, I've been
driving the same truck THAT long) thirteen years ago...

Great, just great... I don't believe thirteen is bad luck and I've said so a couple thousand times....a friend suggested that I might of said it
2197 times and triggered some sort of supernatural effect on All Hallows
eve... (anyone who gets this speak up:

Personally I'm more of a mind that I actually bumped into an eX
yesterday who I haven't SEEN since the day I finished installing
my sunroof.

Also it seems the alumunum frame has become BENT (down and in)
at the left front corner so that the outer seal no longer meets
the glass panel...

Fortunatly I have another aluminum frame... actually FOUR of them
and I need to pull that frame to reseal it anyway...

But I'm mystified how that aluminum extrusion could become BENT
Unless water got in there and froze, expanded and distorted the metal
But that should have broken the glass panel...

And the way I installed it all actually stiffened the roof
so the bent frame is pulling the roof panel out of true...

Not what I wanted or NEEDED to do monday, but the alternative
is driving around in November weather with a hole in my roof I
could drop a full grown German Shepard through...

Well, atleast I can install the new antenna base so I can put my good antenna back on the truck

and use some spray tack to glue a layer (or two) of "space blanket"
(Aluminized mylar) inside the roof.

DELETE the '86-88 map light console...
This is the same as the overhead console for the Gen1 "Touch drive"
console, but it has a clock, a clock that incidentially I can't adjust without
great frustration because the set buttons don't work.
And I have only used those map lamps twice in the 13years
since I installed them...

I think I'm going to mount either my Sirius Radio up there on
an "old school" PanaVise AMPS mount, or it could be a good
spot to mount a pair of guages... gonna think on that tonight....

And of course I DESTROYED my headliner getting it out,
mostly because handling a headliner with an 18"x26" hole
in it invariably ends badly....

So mI get to go looking for a new headliner that isn't all water stained
(and not in three pieces)

That headliner went in in ONE piece (no hole for the sunroof)
AFTER the sunroof was installed then the clearance holes were
cut after it was already fastened in place... I knew then if it
ever needed to come out it was going to come out in pieces...

Yup, I was right.... There are times I REALLY HATE being right all the time...

Someone recently commented to me in a PM that I have the weirdest problems... It's actually that I only bother mentioning the weird ones.

"Common failures" aren't worth talking about
unless I'm telling someone EXACTLY how to fix it...


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Ok let me get this staight I'm having problems with a roof leak
and you are talking about raining & pouring?

thanks a bunch... :)

Wear out keyboards? Not lately...

AD
 
allan , you sound like the kind of person that gets along with you people , but you really know your stuff when it comes to , well , just about everything

Edit : meant to say Few , not You
 
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allan , you sound like the kind of person that gets along with you people , but you really know your stuff when it comes to , well , just about everything


I still remember when he dropped off my tranny back in 2006. Popped the hood of the B2. Before the light even had time to come on he says, "You do know that's not a factory A/C system, it was installed by the dealer!"

And here I am.....:icon_confused:

LOL
 
It's the weird stuff that's frustrating.

I'm fighting a leaking rear window. It's frustrating, and it's not like I need something else to do and it's been raining for a week straight.....not a bit of sun....seriously. Yesterday was the first nice day. Good luck with it AllanD.

2197= 13x13x13??? Other than that no clue.....
 
Ok let me get this staight I'm having problems with a roof leak
and you are talking about raining & pouring?

thanks a bunch... :)

Wear out keyboards? Not lately...

AD

Well to a point I am in the same boat, a friend just bought a ragtop car, and it's leaking like no tomorrow, it's got to make it through the winter and he'll get a new top.
 
i actually stumped him once on a question bout my tranny i was amazed.
 
I dunno what to say here, but it seems you've been a victim of rotten luck lately. Sitting in a unexpected wet seat would have really, truely annoyed me. I think it would be enough to make me lose it. :icon_rofl: On a brighter note at least you weren't out somewhere, or had to be somewhere when this happened.


ati190
 
i actually stumped him once on a question bout my tranny i was amazed.

You didn't CHEAT and ask him a question about an A4LD did you?

Oh wait. All A4LD questions can be answered the same way. Replace it with a 5 speed. :D

We've had monsoon season here in GA too. I've had to travel a lot for my job lately and there's several things I need to do around the house.

If I'm on the road it's beautiful weather at home.

If I'm at home it's raining German Shepherds :annoyed:
 
ive mistakenly sat in a puddle in the forklift seat a few times. instant swamp ass and instant:temper: Ive got a leak in the b2. puddles up in the drivers seat everytime we get rain. I believe it to be coming in near the gutter. at least the seats are waterproof
 

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