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leaf infiltration under console/carpet 200 1988

posted by  dinomartino on  Sun May 22 09:27 CST 2011
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All of us with 240's know about the evils of leaves in the rocker panels. I'm cleaning up a friend's 1988 245 today to get it ready for state inspection. Part of this involves short-strand bondo over a small hole in the floorpan, so I've got the passenger side carpet up and the foam padding removed (all nice and dry, which jives with my spot-checks of his carpet indicating whatever drainage issue once existed is now gone). Sucked out what little had built up in the rockers since doing this last year.

But when I pull the carpet and pad up from under the drivers feet, there are LEAVES. LOTS of leaves!! I poked the vacuum snout up into the console and sucked out MORE leaves! Where the hell are these coming from? I can see them getting into the cowl and then sucked into the HVAC intake, but how would they escape the blower box? They're all under the carpet, and some were even under the foam padding, so its not like these piggyback in on the driver's shoes or something.

Anyone else had the same unwelcome discovery?

John

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1989 245 233K / 1993 945 127K






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