My guess is that your door drains are blocked with crud. Lay on the
ground
under the open doors to find the slots which are put there to drain the
water that gets past the glass-to-outer-door felts. Water always gets in
there, but does no damage if the drains are kept clear. Poke in the slots
you see, partly hidden by the lower weather-strip, using a table knife or
something similar. You'll get a bucket of dirty water in the face if
you're
not careful. If you can hear water sloshing inside the door after a rain,
that's your problem for sure!
There are kits for repairing most thermostatically controlled heater
valves,
but there are also a vendors who specializes in repairing these. I'm not
familiar with '60s, so I don't know if you have this type of hot water
control. If it is vacuum operated, that is a different device, and I don't
know any way to repair those.
Check to see if it is cable operated - if so it is probably a "Ranco"
valve
- a Google search will turn up people who can rebuild it for you.
If it is operated by a small vacuum hose, you'd best just replace it with
a
known good one.
Dick Benjamin
-----Original Message-----
From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donn Reese
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:04 AM
To: Imperial mailing list (E-mail)
Subject: IML: Rain and heaters
I've been watching for water leakage in my '60 all summer - had to fix the
roof spear attachments right off. However I've suspected further leaking
somewhere in the back door areas (4-door). We've been having solid rain
here for over a week and now I've confirmed it.....definite water coming
in
someplace because the bottoms of both door panels are soaking wet. I only
see a few drips on top of the arm rest on one side, certainly not enough
to
explain the amount of water on the door panel, so you'd think the window
rubber wouldn't be the culprit. The headliner is still out so I can
easily
watch the roof spear areas, no problems there except for a very small wet
spot running along down the bottom/back edge of the rear side window
channels.....again not enough water and there's no path for that to get to
the doors.
I remember having a similar but less severe problem with my '62. Is this
a
common issue? Could it be the water running down the outside of the
window
and into the doors? All of my weatherstripping, channels, and such are
original.
The car hasn't moved since the fire last week so it can't be from road
spray.
On another issue, somewhere in the car's past the heater control valve was
bypassed. I assume it quit working. I have heat all the time even with
the
fan off - lovely on a hot summer day. My question is how easy is it to
repair one of these valves? I haven't had the courage yet (or a dry
space)
to pull the one I have out. I have seen a few rebuilt valves on ebay over
the past few months, but if they are realatively simple to repair I'll do
it
myself.....or is the money well spent?
This car has been such an anomoly - I'm repairing things that I've NEVER
had
issues with on other cars. *sigh*
Thanks,
Donn Reese
1960 Custom 4dr HDTP
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