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water coming in through air vents

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 3:58 pm
by waandy
as soon as i get water in the little grill infront of the windscreen it entres through the vents and fills my footwells with water. it also means you cant demist the windscreen because of all the moisture in the vent system.
has anyone else experienced this?

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:15 pm
by Spike_Sierra
yes, common on many suzukis.
i have put duck tape over the vents in the bonnet to stop water coming in, however, my vent system was clean in the first place so it still works fine.

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 4:28 pm
by grimbo
nearly all Sierras get this at some time. probably a thread or two going if you search or if you check the bible. But basically you just have to clean the accumulated crap from the vents and the drain holes that come out through the firewall

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 5:00 pm
by PJ.zook
Yeh as mentioned there are plenty of threads if you search, but as a quick pointer, what a lot of people do is drill a hole in the airbox and blow out all the crap, but if you want to spend half a day one weekend doing it properly, then you can remove the dash and remove/clean airbox properly. Its really not that hard.

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:50 pm
by short stuff
i book marked it for some reason so here you go
http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/body/ ... rclean.htm

Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 11:23 pm
by alien
i just ram a butterknife through the vents to poke everything out the firewall holes =P

I'd love to somehow attach flywire under the vents to stop leaves/flowers etc getting in there though.

Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:01 pm
by Kitika
I've tried cleaning my vents out but couldn't find anything that'd clear the mud+sticks+leaves from the vent tubing? I tried jiggling it out with wire, high pressure water from inside and out but couldn't clear it... Am I doing something wrong?