[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

What's that tool called?



  Very interesting ...
  Open the hatch after a rain, and water drips, or rather flows, out of 
the hole on the left, at the bottom of the hatch.  Spills over the left 
rear taillight, just around the interior trunk light plunger. Then it 
seeps all the way along the seal, around teh hatch latch, and fills the 
spare tire well, then the trunk.
  I added permatex seal all around the rubber of the hatch, to no avail. 
Never figured it would come from the wing screws!

    Jean-Claude
    84 8v (ready to install a sump pump in the trunk)

Greg Pallett a ?crit :
> I'll take some better pictures tomorrow - but at the top of the foam wing,
> (the arms?) where it goes over the top edge of the window seal, there is a
> gap on both sides.
> I notices that the water in my trunk was coming out of the hatch itself.
> There would be a small puddle inside the seal on top of the rear taillight.
> When I open the hatch, water runs out of the holes in the bottom of the
> hatch.
> Extensive testing (with a beer in one hand and a garden hose in the other)
> showed that when water would hit that area it would work itsway inside the
> hatch.
> At least, that's what I think.  I'm pretty damn sure it's not coming in
> around the taillights or hatch lock.
>
> GP
>
>
> On 10/9/07, Jean-Claude D?sinor <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
>> Well, now you know what the thingamajig is called (Impact Screwdriver).
>>
>> But, what makes you think water is coming through the foam wing? I
>> have mysterious pools of water forming in my trunk also, and I have
>> sealed everywhere, but ... the foam wing?
>>
>>    Jean-Claude
>>    84 8v (good for rubba ducks)
>>
>> Greg Pallett a ?crit :
>>     
>>> Welcome to another exciting round of *'What's that tool called?!*'
>>> I'm looking for the name of the tool that is like an impact screwdriver.
>>> You wack the end of it with a hammer and that turns the bit a
>>>       
>> 'lil.  Great
>>     
>>> for getting really stubborn screws out!
>>> I'd like to know the 'technical' name for it, it makes it so much easier
>>>       
>> to
>>     
>>> ask for it at hardware stores.
>>> The goal is to take off my foam wing and seal up some leaks I suspect
>>>       
>> are
>>     
>>> coming in that way.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> GP
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>     
>
>
>