Then how do you know when it's raining?
OMG!!! Iām FKN howling!!
Sure, and get blown out into space? Ya think I'm wearing a red shirt or something?
Heck with it . . . just buy a gallon of the best industrial strength 3-M adhesive available and "get to it" !I appreciate your appreciation...with that said. This past fall I hit a turkey with my 2018 JK. Turkey dam near came through the window and bent the window frame. Luckily owning a Jeep makes this repair easy. Short version, bolt new window in place of damaged. However, after getting a leak the first night, I went back. Body shop scratched head said wasnāt much they could do as window was installed proper. I knew it wasnāt...Short version, after going back and forth with them several times I was able to obtain a service instruction manual from Jeep, the kind they use to diagnose and fix leaking hard tops and doors. On the first page, I highlighted point (why Iām confident)
Another point to bring up for awareness. After all was said and done it took 3 full months to fix the leak. Multiple rubber gaskets, molding pieces, freedom panel securing clamps, tons of butyl and head scratching etc. I ended up helping the shop one day with the owner himself. Imagine the cab of the Jeep being a square. Add a good amount of force to one side of that square = a diamond shape. Now the roll bar and window frame were the actual cause because nothing was aligned proper. Took cage apart, measured, put back together and repeated until entire window frame and cage were square. Took an entire day of labor. This also meant freedom panels fit perfect. No leak since. Leaky rubber seals on hard top, soft top and doors...multiple reasons how this occurs. Diagnosis can go multiple directions. 1.) I condition all the rubber portions of the top and doors regularly to help aid in the suppleness of the rubber to prevent leaks. 2.) Water leaking into the cab while door is open, I suggest getting a different vehicle. 3.) Maybe building the freedom panel front channel up where in ends in the door with butyl or some kind of workable rubber. Kinda like a gutter on a house. Then youāll have nice little wings that whistle while youāre driving down the road. Lol I tried. Here is a link to the same manual, Iām sure one exists for the JL and soon the JT.
https://www.meyerdistributing.com/m...eep_Diagnosis_and_Repair_Manual_for_Leaks.pdf
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im open to ideas it rains here 13 months a year .Love the calmness, the matter of factness of your reply . . . timeless ! Now who will devise a clever "fix" ? I've made a suggestion or 2 based on my RVing over the years (2004 > 2008) with TT $ 5th wheels .
no, I won't repeat myself . . .. . .
yup same place here too :-(Everyone is saying this is "normal", however I owned a 2007 and 2012 soft top 4 door wranglers, and currently have 2015 4 door wranglers, hard top, and never had this issue. Got a gladiator last Saturday, and with today's heavy rains, I also had a river of water dump all over my driver's seat and the floorboard. This isn't "normal"... Not in MY experience, this is a seal flaw. I suspect I may have to fabricate an extension of the water channel to the right of my finger so it extends to the seal area on the left of my finger. Maybe I lucked out in my Wrangler history, but this has never happened to my vehicles before.
yeahhhh suxxxxx
love it!
