Updating on the wet passenger floor

After months of 'getting ready' to do the cowl fix, I finally got around to it a month ago. Made a nice little 'roof' that I'd hoped would do the trick. I'm just back from a camping trip and taking the mats out for a good cleaning and guess what I find? Yup...wet passenger floor. Oof...

Doing a little YT research and armed with a garden hose I think I discovered the real issue as it was easy to repeat the test of water coming in. It seems that there's a wire (radio antenna maybe? it has blue tape on it's end) that passes through the right front fender area into the cabin and is visible once you peel back the carpet. There's also a rubber grommet that is supposed to seal the hole but, nope...it was pushed through the hole. I didn't discover this on my own, there's a video on YT that did all the heavy lifting. I don't want to link somebody else's video but if you search for this it should turn up. Also, the grommet was a quick pull to reseat it in the hole and voila...no more water dripping down. (Notice the mis-spelling)
08 Toyoata Tacoma water leak(passenger floor)

 

Thanks for the update.


If you ever start getting bad radio reception, this is a good link to try.
(It has the picture to the grommet)

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-replace-oem-antenna-in-fender.261341/

 

Thanks for that link. I've thought for a while that the radio reception isn't what it should be....add one to the to-do list

Re: the leak- I was surprised in the video when he pointed out that the rubber grommet wasn't sealing the hole and that he'd found the exact same thing a year earlier on another truck. I thought 'what are the odds' and then when I looked at mine found the exact same situation. I wonder if they simply have a tendency to pop out as it seems unlikely that they were left loose when the trucks were built.

 

No telling. My reception is not what it used to be either. I just don’t want to deal with it right now. The station I listen to the most is still coming in good.