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Old Jul 12, 2023 | 12:48 PM
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Jhn-Dvd
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From: Bynum, Alabama
Default Re: Any info or cowl leaks?

I had water standing in my floorboard on both sides and searched for years unsuccessfully to find it. Then I got the bright idea to take the trim pieces off of the windshield. When I started running a garden hose over the windshield without the trim pieces on I immediately saw what the problem was. There are two rubber cups that go one on each side of the windshield at the top to allow a little lug that's on the bottom of the top center windshield trim to fit into slots on each one of the two side pieces of windshield trim to hold them in place. After a few years these little rubber plugs begin to leak around the edges and sometimes they even slip down inside the metal of the roof the windshield surround. I placed these two little rubber plugs or boots in some marvel mystery oil for a few minutes and marvel mystery oil revitalizes rubber so they started to swell up just a little bit immediately. I'll let them soaking it for about 20 minutes then I pull them out clean them off and use a little bit of form a gasket to put under them as I set them back down into the holes in the roof where they came from I waited for several hours until the sealant dried then I ran the water over them again no leak I mean you can see the water leaking in before there was no leak I put the windshield trim pieces back on and I'm not had any more problems with water in the floorboard I believe this is 90 or 99% of the problem that everybody's having with the crossfire. Those two little rubber plugs are the culprit. Remember suck them in marvel mystery offer just a little bit clean them off good put the sealant on and put the plug in over the sealant around the edges and let it dry. Then put your windshield trim pieces back on and you shouldn't have any more leak problems.
 
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