New leak day!!!!

so exciting!!! There is rain water hitting the driver side floor board by way of the hood release lever. I looked up in there, and although i can’t see the exact source, it’s coming from somewhere above the fuse box. Any ideas?

 

Do you have any aftermarket wiring through the firewall?

 

That’s where a lot of fire wall penetrations are, I’d think the linkage going to the break booster but it could be anything

 

Clean the leaves and or debris off from the top of the cowl.

 

HA!!! Soggybottom...fitting. No aftermarket wiring or other new pushes through the firewall

 

Did you mess with the pinch weld?

 

Any chance you have a sun roof.??? Each corner of the sun roof has a drain tube. Open the roof the check for crap plugging drain...

Good luck

 

No sunroof and no messing with welds. No modifications have been made up front. I did have the factory roof-rails removed, but i am not sure i can trace a good path from those roof grooves to the hood release latch area...

Strange days...

 

Then my guess would be, OP has a holy Tacoma

 

Pull the weather strip and silicone those bolts. Or let the monkeys at the dealer try to figger it out..!!

 

I'm guessing since you removed roof rails, water is making it's way to A- pillar, and coming out by hood latch. As over60 mentioned silicone the rail holes.

 

You ever seen a taco without a hole?

 

I know right. Have you seen those frames. We’re talking Sainthood.

 

Swing and a miss...

Was that intentional?

 

I assume removing the weather stripping and reinstalling is fairly straightforward, but anytime i assume that, the work ends up being a shit show. If anyone has any tips and/or pointers for this operation, please let me know.

 

Tracing water is as easy as keeping track of homeless people. Always taking the path of least resistance. It's impossible to follow. Just think what you did differently and start there

 

They peel right off, make sure you have new and good double sided tape. You need to plug the holes beneath, and I can't believe whomever removed the rack didn't do this! Call and complain, also look for new shop.

 

You can buy the stock Toyota stickers that cover the holes when you don’t have rails. They’re like $2 or $3 each I think. Nice, heavy and durable.