[Ram]

Have water leaking into the cab's floorboard when ever its raining. Not a big leak just a little stream that would get the floor board puddling. (carpet is removed) The leak is right close to the side wall, not to the right enough to be the bulkhead connector. The windshield and gasket have been changed and all of those leaks have been stopped.

What is the chance of water entering the cab and dripping down to the floorboard from a crack in the front of the cowl? I have done all I can looking into the fender and when I changed the wiper link bushings last November or so I have inspected into the fender as far as I could and didnt' find any cracking. But I'm not ruling out a leaking body filler!

I know I have seen the repair on cowl cracks and can't find it again, can any one help find a link to that cowl repair?

Has anyone had this kind of leaking happen and have any suggestions as to the fix?

Thanks,
Gary

 

[K.C.]

Haven't had the pleasure of fixing any leaks in that area yet, but here's the link http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1994/23-63-94.htm

 

[Ram]

Haven't had the pleasure of fixing any leaks in that area yet, but here's the link http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1994/23-63-94.htm

That is the link,
Thank you,
Gary

 

[Chump]

Ram, stick your head under the dash while you have a competent assistant run a slow trickle of water from a garden hose on the outside of the RC. Use a systematic approach, dont just spray the whole truck, and start at the lowest point and work upward very slowly. This may help you locate the leak. Also sometimes with a bright flashlight you can see a rust/water trail under the dash where the previous leak has been.

 

[Ram]

Ram, stick your head under the dash while you have a competent assistant run a slow trickle of water from a garden hose on the outside of the RC. Use a systematic approach, dont just spray the whole truck, and start at the lowest point and work upward very slowly. This may help you locate the leak. Also sometimes with a bright flashlight you can see a rust/water trail under the dash where the previous leak has been.

Thanks Chump, I have done that and I can see the trails and the water when its raining. Its coming down from behind the sound/heat backing material on the fire wall behind the dash! And thats as far as I can see. I don't think that I could rip enough down and see much further up behind it unless I could take down the dash, it keeps getting tighter and tigher as you go up under the dash.

I think that I've done something that has minimized it some what or even stopped it. On the engine side of the fire wall (engine compt) in that corner by the hood spring, it has some kind of short drip rail or gutter (which runs the length of the fire wall, left to right, dumping out into each fender opening aft). I think that the water was getting caught(standing) in the gutter, which had a blob of expanded body sealant the size of a marble at the farther end of that gutter, where the water was to be draining out of the gutter and falling into the opening of the fenders interior. That blob must have been acting like a little damn. Allowing the water to sit in that gutter, covering the firewall body and cowling seam and leaking in from their into the cab. Don't really know for sure if that did the trick. I'm am thinking that I need to re-caulk that seam with new body seal before I go much further.

It is raining like crazy now and i have sopped up all the water on the floor board just prior to the rain starting. This will let me know something when the rain stops and I go check it.

 

[Ram]

Well that rain has stopped and I don't have near the amount of water puddled up on the floorboard as I used to have from rain that hard. I think that firewall drip rail like gutter is what maybe causing my problem. Will try some sealer and see what that does for the leaking.

 

[chukles]

I have the same problem on my 85, not sure where it is coming from. Everything looks fine, still puddles in the same area..

 

[Ram]

I have the same problem on my 85, not sure where it is coming from. Everything looks fine, still puddles in the same area..

Hello chukles and welcome to the site. Don't know what else to say about the leaking, I'm going to find what is causing it one way or another. When I do I'll post it here.

 

[Evildriver-3]

Might be a crack in the firewall along the side where it bends behind the fender

 

[superprowizard]

I've got the same problem with my 85. It's very frustrating when the rig is almost perfect except for the water leak. The repair spec claims 6 hours for both sides but that means 10+ in superprowizard hours. I may just pay to have a body shop do it so the fenders go back on straight. I crack the windows and roof vent for fresh air on the sunny days. It helps dry out the cab.
Good luck
Cliff out

 

[Dork]

I like your hourly estimates, but you must not be as clumsy as I am

I figure to add those patch peices if I ever have the fenders off for another reason, but don't plan to worry about it until then.

 

[5Speed]

Have water leaking into the cab's floorboard when ever its raining. Not a big leak just a little stream that would get the floor board puddling. (carpet is removed) The leak is right close to the side wall, not to the right enough to be the bulkhead connector. The windshield and gasket have been changed and all of those leaks have been stopped.

What is the chance of water entering the cab and dripping down to the floorboard from a crack in the front of the cowl? I have done all I can looking into the fender and when I changed the wiper link bushings last November or so I have inspected into the fender as far as I could and didnt' find any cracking. But I'm not ruling out a leaking body filler!

I know I have seen the repair on cowl cracks and can't find it again, can any one help find a link to that cowl repair?

Has anyone had this kind of leaking happen and have any suggestions as to the fix?

Thanks,
Gary

Okay, I bought a '92 150 about 2 years ago. It leaked like you know what. I picked up the cab reinforcement caps from the local Dodge dealer and installed them myself ( Details on that later).
As to the leaks. I first thought that the welds on the cowel below the windshild were the problem-Wrong. I then thought the Cab Caps" would help-Wrong. At the third attempt I found what was causing the prob. with my 150.....There seems to be a BIG wide Vertical gap between the "firewall" and the side sheet metal. I only worked on one side at a time to minimize labor for solving the prob. This is very techinical stuff, so follow along slowly, one may have to read it twice to understand. I used what aircraft people call "speed Tape", The home airconditioning guys call it aluminized sticky tape. Home Depot seel for 3.50 a small roll. cover the hole and the leak goes away. Oh, incidently, I used a jerry-rigged wood fixture to hold the hood up to partialy remove the fender and access the area in question.
Good Luck

 

[Sparky McShakerton]

my '80 ramcharger i'm parting out leaked like that. when i took the dash out i noticed the area under the cowl screen was rotted out on both sides of the truck,causing it to leak. i'll try to get a picture cause its kinda hard to explain.

 

[Ram]

I was thinking that mine was caused by the cracks in the covered area of the fenders on the cowel. I'm not real sure that mine is from that, I'm starting to think its from the seam that runs across the firewall just under the cowel is what might be leaking on mine? I have a blob of body foam on the left side blocking the trough of that seam and the leaking has almost stopped. Will know for sure when I re-caulk the seam! The body over all has zero rust and corrosion. So no body sheet metal has rotted through and caused the leak. I know that for sure.

 

[Dork]

This is very techinical stuff, so follow along slowly, one may have to read it twice to understand. I used what aircraft people call "speed Tape", The home airconditioning guys call it aluminized sticky tape. Home Depot seel for 3.50 a small roll. cover the hole and the leak goes away. Good Luck

sounds to be the same stuff my Dad calls Gleaner Weld, since it so closely matches the color of Gleaner combines

 

[MADE OF METAL]

dont rule out a leaking windscreen eighter... water is lazy and will find the path of least restance... good luck