Originally posted by Beach
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Dust, where does it come in?
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I've done plenty of work on this issue living up Cape york. I found most of my dust entry was coming in the water drain holes on the bottom off all the doors, including the back door which was by far the worst. I put duck tape over the drains and dramatically reduced the dust entry. Just remember to remove the tape when it rains.
I also fitted a cabin filter to the interior fan housing. Standard on a Grande, empty tray on all other model 120's. and put lever on recircuate
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Originally posted by raydes View Postthere is two 6x4 vents on the sides behind the rear bumper ,,,
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Originally posted by droggy View PostI also had the same problem with dust in the jack area, what I found was 3 or 4 captive female threads in the body that if you blow air in them it comes out in the area of the jack, sealed holes with silastic, all fixed. Lay on the ground and look up between towbar and fuel tank, the area is where the fuel tank straps bolt to the body, its like a channel section that goes from one side of vehicle to other, I am not too computer savvy so don't ask for photo,s Good luck,its a very bad design fault
John
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I haven't tried it yet but I have a roll of Elastoplast in the car ready to cover all the drains in the bottom of the doors, including the back door when I next hit the dust. Theory is that the Elastoplast will stop/filter the dust but let the water/air out (slowly). For the record my rubber grommets (I believe there are two, top on the inside and bottom underneath) for the towbar loom were also pushed out, seems to be a common trick for jealous 4WD shop lackeys. Everybody with a towbar should check these grommets.
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Originally posted by Borec View Post
Ok, finally got around to fixing this, when I took my bumper off to do some panel beating. Not sure how every body fixed this, but I ripped off the outside facing cover, flatten the edges, and glued a plastic plate on top, also put some good gaffa tape from inside to help with any pressure that might push on and try to force the glued plastic plate off, when closing doors. I have also found when I took the vent assembly off, that the whole cavity was full of caked mud. There was even piece of chain in there, I guess it might have come in through the jack cavity. I wonder how long was the previous owner looking for the chain :-). There are also one way draining plugs at the bottom of the cavities, these were obviously non functional, as I had about 3 cm of caked dust on top of them. I have washed teh cavity, cleaned any rust, repainted it, and sealed the gaps between the panels, and then coated with anti-rust thing called waxoyl. Not sure if that was teh right thing to do, as that stuff does not dry out but stays around as waxy coating. I then siliconed in the modified vents.
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