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If you take the front fender off, I'll bet you find you have a hole rusted in the body right at the front where the heater tube curves up in the door post to the dash. DIrt kind of packs in there and promotes rust. Another place is at the top rear of the fender. Get the fenders off, and clean and patch in there. Might not be it, but virtually every wreck I've seen has had some rust or holes in those locations. My '71 sure did, plus about 50 lbs. of dirt packed in the upper rear of the front fenders. After patching, my standard practice is to hose out the fenders every time we have a snow. They put down gravel here instead of salt, but it still packs in at the rear of the fenders. There's also a fender support strut in there, my original fenders had both of these eaten about in two. The heater tubes have no connection to the fresh air stuff, it all originates in the back, so you have some rust holes somewhere. The fresh air drain tubes still needed to be rodded out, so that wasn't wasted time. On Mon, 03 Nov 1997 23:51:15 -0800, you wrote: >When it rains I get a steady stream of water coming in at the heater >outlet on the floor of the driver side. If it rains long enough, it will >totally flood the inside of the car. > >A while back, I removed and replaced the rubber tube that allows the >fresh air collector to drain so I know this isn't a problem. > >I can't find any diagrams in any of my manuals of how the heater outlet >could open anywhere to the outside that would cause this problem. Does >anybody have any suggestions? > >Steve B. >