<VV> Re: I need LM body/floorboard repair answers

[J R Read_HML]

There is LOTS of places the water gets in.  Two most common are rusted out 
windshield frame area - look up under the dash - all the way to the top - 
where the front of the dash meets the windshield panel.  Rusty?  Water 
getting in.

Other - associated in a way with the rockers.  Water is SUPPOSED to flow 
from the front cowl in front of the windshield and down past the fresh air 
vents and Monza (if is a Monza) emblem and into the rockers and exit the 
back of the rockers.  The fresh air vent sealant can leak.  If you have not 
pulled them, do yourself a favor and do so.  Did down into the crevices - 
where the rockers start and get rid of any and all debris in that area.  The 
muck that forms there holds moisture and rots the panel out from the inside. 
Save yourself (and your car) from this fate.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Taruffi57 at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:39 PM
Subject: <VV> Re: I need LM body/floorboard repair answers


>I am restoring/modifying a '69 500 Coupe and ran across some  "unknowns".
>
> (1)  the rocker areas have a rubber "exit" flap on the inside - just 
> forward
> of the rear wheel, but I see no entry point for water up front.  My
> passenger side seems sealed off at the inside rear of the front wheelwell 
> at the
> level of the rocker..  Good undercoating and no openings for water  entry. 
> The
> left (drivers) side is quite opposite.  It has gaps in the  lower 
> folded/lapped
> sheet metal at the bottom of the rear of the front wheelwell  and since 
> some
> rust repair has been done recently in that area, the undercoating  is 
> gone.
> Looks like water can easily run down through the rocker.   Did GM 
> completely
> seal off the rockers at the front and should I put it back  like that?
> Makes no sense to me that there is an apparent "exit" point at the rear of
> the rockers and no visible "entry" point - forward.
>
> (2)  about 2 or 3 inches to the left of the clutch pedal rubber  footpad 
> is
> an area of thick smeared-on sealant.  It's on the sloped  vertical part of 
> the
> floorpan.  There is an exact copy of it on the  passenger side also.  I 
> could
> see rust there so dug out some of the sealant  and found rust-though. 
> There
> seems to be 3 layers of lapped sheet metal  there...one being the front
> subframe member flange.  No rust anywhere else  in the vertically sloped 
> floorpan.
> Everything behind the gas tank  looks solid and clean.  I don't see any 
> water
> entry point so was wondering  where the water came from to cause this 
> "cancer"
> since I want to prevent  recurrence.
>
> Any wisdom greatly appreciated.
>
> Joe Dunlap
> Cen. Florida
> 2 Corvairs and a buncha other stuff
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