Author Topic: wind leak under steering column.  (Read 3003 times)

srisant

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wind leak under steering column.
« on: September 21, 2017, 12:37:54 »
Hi,

My car experience hot air from engine compartment when going at high speed leaking from somewhere under the steering column. Can anyone advice me where leakage is from?

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Re: wind leak under steering column.
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2017, 13:14:25 »
I recommend you take along a small passenger on a test drive to locate the leak. That is what I would do.

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Re: wind leak under steering column.
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2017, 15:19:45 »
hi ,

it must be from firewall pad ... good luck  .

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Re: wind leak under steering column.
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2017, 15:39:46 »
I would guess it is from one of the grommets on the firewall. At PUB this year, we saw a number of cars with the larger grommets on the left side (LHD cars) that were completely gone, or almost gone. These are the complex grommets with three to four cables/wires running through them.
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srisant

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Re: wind leak under steering column.
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2017, 12:05:49 »
Thanks I will take a look again but I remembered that I have replaced them during my full restorations.

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Re: wind leak under steering column.
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2017, 08:28:36 »
From  my experience, there are a couple of the grommets that are not so obviously visible - the one on brake pedal and the gas pedal related elements that are going through the firewall.
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