Pandahatch

I decided to finally take on the task of fixing my water leak today after a week of non-stop raining. I figured out it was coming from the cracked seam sealer in the corners of the roof. Water would run down the sheetmetal in the inside of the car into the spare tire well, I could visually watch it run in. Here is my somewhat step by step fix on it. Make sure you have a good full day (6-8 hours) to work on this to do a good job on it.

First, you have to remove the hatch and begin to grind out all of the old seam sealer. It is best to use a 3M grinding/paint removing wheel and a flathead screwdriver in the small areas, a dremel attachment will aslo work here.




Next after you have cleaned the area of dust and debris use Duramix flexible seam sealer to seal the metal. This is probably a lot better than the 14 year old **** in the car already. This cost around $25 a tube, it's a 2 part mixture which you can use a gun to apply it, but I like to apply it to a piece of cardboard and mix it myself and apply it with my fingers (wear rubber gloves) to ensure it gets in all the grooves. It's a self leveling mixture so apply it generously it will all even out. This can also be painted (primed) right on top of.




I will post more pictures tomorrow with some primer on it as well as finishing it up, I ran put of daylight and had to let the seam sealer cure tonight. Enjoy!

CRX_Control

nicly done !! ima do this tommorow

eumoria

my brother's crx is going to have to have this done. awesome writeup!

GreenMachineRex

nice. too bad my car is freshly painted. i may try clear silcone.

LSvtec03

lol, saw you post this on csr already!

Pandahatch

Yep, CRX Owners group haha.

JapJunkie

iTrader: (1)

good ****.

Jonathan_ED3

Very good stuff!!

GreenMachineRex...I tried clear silicone on my sedan and it ended up cracking out when I applied it on top of paint.

92integra_gs

yea nice writeup... too bad i dont have a sunroof... maybe in the future when i install one... but anyways good writeup

NFM_Dm

how do u get those side moldings on the top of the roof off? and the back triangle peices by the lights?!?!

DieMaster

iTrader: (1)

ok first good wright up on your car NOW DO MY 4DR TRUNK!! lol Just kidding

All the top seals are shot to hell and the bottom ones are brandnew / work good enough to hold water what this equals to is i litteraly can fill my trunk with water and use it as a bathtub

BiG Chris

im going to do that when remove my hatch to swap out to a CF or FG hatch

Pandahatch

92integra- This isn't for a sunroof car, the seam sealer was just old and cracked in the roof.

The top strip comes out, you have to put them back towards the rear of the car from the front, then they pull up. The rear triangle pieces don't need to come out, the clips break on them.

Dwight Schrute

water can also come through ur taililghts and run into the spare tire well. some of you guys might want to remove ur rear panels and sit in the hatch and have ur friend spray water to see where it's coming from.

CRX7

Man, so that's where it's leaking from, I was so confused I couldn't find the leak.

Thanks a lot

Pandahatch

Yea, it was coming through the tail lights too, I fixed that the 1st day I had it.

Pandahatch

UPDATE: It rained like hell tonight, the only water that got in was through the tail lights, still don't know how to fix these, the seam sealer did it's job great.

WorryRock

Hi PandaHatch,

Some reason I can't see the photos. Could you repost them?

Thanks

Hidenplanvew

im sure ots because its from 2004 if he is even still around... you might want to try and pm him