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YJ drain plugs or other water draining methods

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#1 ·
Hey guys I've been trying to find an answer to this but it doesn't seem like there is one out there, I have a huge problem with water build up in the floorboards of my '95. The water is coming in on my boots, everytime i get in my jeep i knock off as much snow as possible from my boots but at the end of everyday i have a good inch of water built up in the floorboards. Ive tried pulling the rubber drainplugs they are pointless because all of the water sits in the low spots. I know there must be a solution to this or else every jeep in places where it snows alot would have this problem.

So here are my questions, do the large metal plugs in the center of the floorboards come out? and if so are there rubber replacements like there are for tjs? everytime i search about this i just get directed to tj threads. Please help you guys right now im about to start drilling holes all over the low spots in my floor. :zap:
 
#2 ·
Replace the seal under your windshield, get Husky floor mats (if you have carpet)

As for the larger plugged areas, I dont think they are replacements for them.. but they do come out, how easy they go back is another question

 
#3 ·
The seal is fine water is coming in from feet. it is only there from feet it is pretty easy to tell, when i have a passenger there is water over there too, when i have people in the back there is water back there, we do a lot of in and out so over the course of a day a ton of water builds up. this spring i will be bedlining the floor and i will care less then but i still don't like having a pool of water in my floorboards. and I was planing on buying rugged ridge All terrain floor mats but now looking at the huskys im not sure which i like better.

I just can't believe how much water gets down there, its no wonder that YJ carpets all get moldy and nasty.
 
#5 ·
Just start drill brother, I'm glad I did. Only take a small 1/4 hole or two, no need to go crazy with it and make sure to hit them a grinder or beat down any edges that poke up. And then don't forget to touch up the paint I still need to put one of two in the rear
 
#6 ·
I was afraid that would be the consensus, oh well haha. Have you found any kind of rubber plugs to seal them up or do you just leave them open?
 
#7 ·
You need to caulk or seal the body panel between the cowl and the bottom of the windshield lower frame... Where they meet...
Also make sure the big center vent on the cowl is clear... Under the hood by the firewall there should be a 1" black "sausage" looking thing about 10" long... Pull that and make sure its clean... Some say they get plugged and fill up with water... Then the water can spill into the heater duct? Then on to the floor....

Mine gets wet every time it rains... The water is coming in from the seam between the body panels and then runs down along the insides...

Also... If your drain plugs are out and you drive on wet roads you can get excessive water in from the water coming off the tires / road...

You don't fix the problem by drilling more holes
 
#8 ·
I have already done all of these things this past fall. I had a clogged drain in the cowl vent. Water kept leaking so i sealed the seam. Water leaked less but still a little so i replaced the cowl seal, No more leaks. My drain plugs are in, no water is being splashed up. And this splash issue is why i asked about rubber plugs to fill the holes i drill, I'm basically doing what we all have to do all the time and fix Chrysler's oversights that cause leaks and other small problems. (in this case misplacement of drainage points, which btw is one of the reasons jeep frames tend to rust out)

This is completely different this is water from snow being brought in on boots. Throughout the day i accumulate about an inch of water in the floor boards. It only happens where there is someone sitting, it only happens when there is snow on the ground for us to track in. And the problem is that the drain plugs are in the wrong place because they should be at the very lowest place in the wheel well, so i have a puddle of water under my feet with no way to correct other than toweling it out which is what i have been doing and am sick of doing.
 
#9 ·
Well we cant really blame Chrysler, Body style CJ was Kaiser Motor and after that it was AMC who probably modified/designed the YJ from the CJ style right before they sold to Chrysler in 1987 and they ran with it, improved here and there through out the years.

But even still its hard to predict how a vehicle will behave 20-30 years down the road.
 
#12 ·
Where I live... 10" of snow equals 1" of water... I'd tell your passengers to kick your heals together once or twice before getting in...
That's a lot of snow getting in there!
its all in a puddle in the corner against the trans tunnel not all the way across the floor. and I do tell them to kick their feet together all the time but they never do it, but I do it every time i get in and I still get a lot of water in there
 
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