Greeks Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I was changing the oil on the BOB at the weekend, in the rain, and I noticed a bit of dripping coming from the bulkhead side of the passenger side wheel arch.Oh, dear. There are two grommets there so I pulled the bottom one out...And nearly drowned :o Litres of water came out, and then I siphoned the rest out with a piece of wiper reservoir tubing. I noticed the other side of the car already had the grommet removed.Surely Triumph didn't design this as some kind of ballast mechanism ;DI'm sure I've heard of this happening to others before, but is it common?What can I do to stop it happening again? (i.e. any tips on where it gets in from)Should I drill a low hole to let any water that gets in, get out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valencia1 Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 its partly a drain way from the roof gutters. seal up the acess hole/slots,ie the short curved sections below bottom corners of windscreenregards, bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Well worth doing. Pop the bonnet and you'll see where to fill in the drain channel as well. This then lets the water splash over the outside of the front wings rather than inside the wheel arch area. This design flaw causes a lot of the big cars to lose their sills to rust. Still it was Triumphs first monocoque.Richard:- currently welding the windscreen surround and the inner wing re-inforcement areas on his PI after replacing the sills and removing the front wings. :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Harris Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 i`ve found the best way to seal this area up is to insert a small piece of tubing into the gap then skim with a black sealent, one tip i always do is to put a waxoil nozzle down the gap and pump it full of the stuff before sealing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeks Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 Thanks gents.I'll do all of the above ... haven't seen Waxoyl in oz yet, but there must be something similar available. Weirdly enough a dog (or other scent marking creature) seems to have peed on the very same wing in the last couple of days?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Graham: Have you been out sniffing the car again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeks Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Well, ok I admit it ... just a little sniff ;-)No - actually it's fairly obvious to see that 'something' has sprayed on the wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heraldcoupe Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 [quote by=Richard_B link=Blah.pl?b=2000,m=1168290801,s=2 date=1168335609]Still it was Triumphs first monocoque.([/quote]It may have been the first badged as a Triumph, but the same company had built a number fo them under the Standard name,Cheers,Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Agreed Bill, still it was early days for monocoque design and I don't think they expected as many Triumphs to still exist 40+ years after construction.Now if we can just work out, where the water is getting into Alison's Herald Estate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heraldcoupe Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 [quote by=Richard_B link=Blah.pl?b=2000,m=1168290801,s=8 date=1168513508]Now if we can just work out, where the water is getting into Alison's Herald Estate? [/quote]It's still being a pain then. Have you tried using the talk yet?Cheers,Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard B Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Not yet Alison is up to her neck in A'level coursework. She wants to do a degree in Fine Arts next year. I'll get her to do that at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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