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Ben:
Try here:

http://threads.lro.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=defender&Number=323641&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5

Thankfully mine's a truck cab at the moment, but I've just check the hard top I've bought, and it's got a county roof to it, so I'm going to have to be prepared for leaks  :(

I do have a leak now though on the truck cab. My CB aerial mount has worked loose...

Hope this helps

Ben

davidlandy:
I have found the main source of water leaking onto the floor in mine. Its the seals around the fresh air vents - adrift and misaligned along the top edge of the vent in places and letting the water just pour in!    it runs down the bulkhead straight onto the floor.

just fixing them now coincidently!


mine also gets shed loads of condensation on the roof   - if anyone has any solutions to this I would be keen to know

thanks

stefan:
A quick, cheap and working fix is to get some carpet, cans of spray adhesive and cover the whole roof with carpet, stops condensation and reduces noise too, plan to take my headlining down and do mine asap.

Stef

Dangermouse:
The back of my hardtop 90 has it's own micro-climet
last year i even had mushrooms growing on the sound deadening stuff :?
a mate solved the prob in his 90 by glueing carpet to the roof
He dident stop the sun roof leaking so he took it out & fixed a sheet of ali over the hole
bit extreme but he never used it enyway

stefan:
Thought I'd resurrect this thread. I found the source of the leak on mine. I took all the headlining out and then gave the 90 a thorough hose down. There were no leaks from the sunroof, the roof had no signs of any previous condensation, but I did notice water on the drivers side, dripping in by the interior rail that runs from left to right, along the cab and rear roof seam, it then ran along the interior gutter and collected in a large pool at the back, my drive slopes back with a slight camber to the drivers side, and when I have reversed back the water has run forward along the gutter and poured out from the front corner of the headlining!

 I dried out the water and using some white silicone sealer sealed the gap where the cab roof meets the rear roof, along both sides where the roof ribs run front to back, along the gutter on both sides and around the front windscreen. Just been out to check as we've had some pretty hefty rainfall here this morning and both interior gutters are bone dry!!

I have enclosed pics of where I sealed.

Stef

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