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Melissa & Jim wrote: > > A sunroof question: Hi Jim, In my email about the sunroof I tried to explain where the front hoses drain. It actually comes out of the 'a' pillar, I would guess about 1/3 from the top and in between the door and the pillar. The hose itself is only about 3 inches long and goes from the frame to the body. The rest is all welded in and steel. I had the whole body sandblasted, including the drains. I than filled them up with zinc paint, let it drain (expensive hobby, but you can use the paint again for the other side). After drying, the same with normal paint and thereafter with 'tectyl'. I don't know the american name for that stuff, but it's a brown stinking fluid for rustprotection that's used overhere in every closed compartment of a car eg. heaterchannels etc. The whole thing takes a few days and is quite messy. You should be able to easily spot the holes in the pillar as they are about 1/4 of an inch, maybe a bit more, in diameter, unless someone, like a PO, filled them up because he thought something was leaking. If you don't see them right away, try to insert some sort of wire, like the thick strong nylon type they use for putting in windows or hanging up paintings, from the top down. Unless the holes are welded close (as when a new piece of 'a' pillar was welded in as the old one was rusted by a leaking sunroof ???), it should come where I explained. Cheers, Theo