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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 02:22 PM
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Got the brace for the passenger seat welded up today, needless to say I think itll do. Also had to drill a new hole for the seat moung. I no longer have any rust thanks to the rust converter (Thank God) the last thing i have to do is prep the metal back up and lay down some sweet silver monstaliner and be done.
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 02:30 PM
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Do your self a favor get rid of the carpet from what ive heard thats one of the causes of rust they say that moisture stays in the carpet and allows the floor to rust i took my carpet out and its not bad i actually like it
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 03:06 PM
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OK guys, I may have the solution for the OP. My XJ was doing exactly the same thing. Standing water when it was out in the riain, just on the passenger side though. After looking and looking I finally had a friend spray the passenger side while I sat in the Cherokee and watched. My water was getting in by running down inside the door. The weather strip at the bottom of the window was worn and cracked. Water was running down in the door out the drain holes but there was so much that it was backing up into the floor boards. I replaced the weather strip and now I am dry as a bone inside.

OP, look at that and see if that is where your water is getting in at.
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Jared W
Alright I found the culprit today I had a leak under my heater core and the vacuum line on the passenger side

Then the guy i bought it from decided to cut the boot for the electrical wire that comes through the firewall to make room for the amp wire he sooo brilliantly installed.

Either way I got everything sealed up and commenced to due an extreme water test ( i just sprayed alot for like 5 minutes) and ta da there fixed
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OK guys, I may have the solution for the OP. My XJ was doing exactly the same thing. Standing water when it was out in the riain, just on the passenger side though. After looking and looking I finally had a friend spray the passenger side while I sat in the Cherokee and watched. My water was getting in by running down inside the door. The weather strip at the bottom of the window was worn and cracked. Water was running down in the door out the drain holes but there was so much that it was backing up into the floor boards. I replaced the weather strip and now I am dry as a bone inside.

OP, look at that and see if that is where your water is getting in at.
He said he already found d the source...
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Gee oh Dee
He said he already found d the source...
OK I missed that. Sorry, I'm looking at this on a crappy MAC in a Satellite truck at work.

But it still may help someone else who is having the same problem.
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 04:52 PM
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Up in front there is a seam that goes across sprayed rubber , Most miss it becuase it looks ok but it needs to come out and will have holes under it. I replaced my floors and lined right up to that seam and dam if there where holes under it.
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 06:02 PM
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Yea def need to get rid of the carpet if its being doing it for awhile cuz itll be smelly and moldy.

rand4x4 take a pic of what your talking about I gotta see this.
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Old Nov 8, 2011 | 06:10 PM
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Check the rubber boot that is between the door an the boody. They put the boot there to protect the wire harness that is there an if u dont have the boot i bet u thats were ur problem is. Let me no if this helps.
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Old Nov 9, 2011 | 11:45 AM
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I already found my leaks I was just seeing what rand4x4's looked like
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Old Nov 12, 2011 | 11:12 AM
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Got my Duplicolor Bed liner with Kevlar and put on 2 coats on my interior its looking hella better.

I really like this stuff I picked it up at my local Advance Auto Parts on sale for $69.99 (Checked Autozone and all they had was the Rust-o-lem and that crap aint UV protected)

And it came with a roller pan, with a paint roller, paint brush, stir stick, and scuff pad. It is an entire kit with everything you need except the obvious for prepping (Water and cleaner).

The stuff looks great and doest smell at all; minus a little bit of fumes.

Im pretty pumped that theres no more carpet to worry about staining and my floors pretty much never going to rust

Oh yea there is 2-sides to metal and I definitely picked up some rustolems rubbing coating spray for fenderwells, undercoating, etc. to spray the under carriage.
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Old Nov 14, 2011 | 12:38 AM
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it really feels bad when something you love was turning messy!!!same problem with my friend here,,,but what she did was finding out the leak,maybe on the floor itself or windshield seal...It is necessary to fixed it as early as you can.
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Old Nov 15, 2011 | 07:05 AM
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Yea its definitely depressing, but on the positive I got to work on the Jeep which is always fun for me.
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Old Nov 16, 2011 | 06:43 AM
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Hey sorry i don't have pic's, Looks good. I see you went up as far as i did in front. Up by were rubber pad come's down right where your feet would be sitting when driving is a rubber pad, Under that is a rubber seam mine looked fine so i left it alone. Then one day i got in and saw water soaked passanger side. There where holes under that rubber seam so i cut it out and fiberglassed it.
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Old Nov 16, 2011 | 07:53 AM
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Fiberglass is a good alternative. I actually went all the way up to the major weld under the rubber mat and with my rubber floor mats in and with the interior back in place it looks really good. Well alot better then the rust covered garbage it was.
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