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October 20, 2007, 11:00 pmFixing Sunroof / Oil Leaks
Well I finally got around to working on the R/T again. I was getting tired of having water constantly leaking or dripping down from the sunroof & I needed to fix it. Thankfully I have yet to put in my new headliner, so dropping the sunroof assembly was a sinch. Cleaning up the RTV I so eloquantly put on the system was not!

It took about 3 hours of scraping, sanding and peeling to get the RTV fully removed. I was out to redo the foam weatherstripping that runs along the perimeter of the frame. Oddly enough they don't seal the whole thing.. Dodge trusted the sunroof frame to work as it should to divert incoming water into the drain tubes. With mine, they were clogged and the area for drainage was small... so water constantly overflowed.

I did manage to get it all cleaned up and then apply another bit of weatherstripping. Now water should not drip out and with the RTV cleaned up it ran smoothly to the drain tubes.

Ofcourse... the leak is still there when there is just too much water in the tray. But that is normal, and will actually be recitified when I install the headliner sunroof trim... because guess what... that is what keeps the water from spilling in to the cabin! Who knew?

The other issue was with the oil leakage. We had thought for a long time that it was the power steering fluid leaking out from somewhere, but when it didn't stop, and when I kept loosing a quart of oil... we suspected otherwise. In my rush to get the car back together I had put the valve cover (and gasket) quite slopily. It wasn't quite my intention to do it that way, as I was expecting to put a different valve cover on in a few days anyways.

But that came and went, and the car never got the new valve cover and I had forgotten all about it. But it came to me recently that the oil was probably coming from the Valve Cover area, and I hope I was right. There was plenty of oil located on the edge of the where it was leaking... it has to be from there.

So I put on a new gasket along with a new valve cover & an MSD ignition coil. I think it looks pretty good, albeit my scheme was going to be Red, but I think the wires and coil mesh well here.


Filed Under: 1998 Dodge Neon R/T

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