DII, Sunroof drain tube locations...PLZ!

Ataraxia

Well-known member
Oct 16, 2006
176
0
Ontario
So the first couple times I didn't care, but now it's starting to really bother me that it's raining inside my truck from the P/sunroof switches and all that other crap mounted on the ceiling.

Where do the drain tubes terminate? I see on the RAVE schematic how they look, but can't find where the ends are. I need to find them and blow em out. Theres quite a few threads about this issue, but nobody seems to mention where they come out.

Thanks folks!
 

Justin Kurosaki

Well-known member
Apr 21, 2004
673
0
Arizona
You should be able see the ends of the rear one if you pop out the rear brake lights. The fronts are under the plastic A pillar cover.
 

Dan Erickson

Well-known member
May 27, 2005
1,268
0
56
Cincinnati, Ohio
When I removed my headliner, I could see why it was leaking so badly.

Each sunroof has a a nipple for connection of a drain hose in each of the front corners of the gutters (or as Will calls them buckets).

1 of the nipples on each of my 2 sunroofs were broken, allowing pretty much everything that got past the sunroof seal into the truck.

Once I got the 2 new buckets from Will and installed them (I also needed to re-caulk the corner pieces having the nipple), I tested both sunroofs for proper drainage.

What I found was that the drain tubes were not really clogged, but they all had some degree of droop in them before going down thier respective pillars. This droop was acting as a water trap (like a sink drain), and it was taking a lot of water pressure from the gutter filling up, to push the water past the trap and down the pillar. Now once this happened, the gravity pulling the water down the tube created a suction and pulled the rest of the water from the gutter (like a toilet flushing).

The point I'm trying to make with this long explanation is that it was taking the gutter to fill up to a certain point in order to get it to drain (and then the cycle would repeat). In a level driveway, this would happen (most of the time) before the gutter filled up far enough to over flow (as I remember, it would begin spilling out the mounting holes for the sunroof motors first), but the real problem was when driving, it didn't take the gutter filling up very much before it sloshed out and into the truck while driving around a corner.

I re-routed the rear hoses and tightened all of the hoses by cutting off some of the excess length.

I was then able to pour water directly into each gutter and the water drained immediately.

Removing the headliner is really not that bad a job. You will want a second set of hands to make the handling of it easier though.

Hope this helps.

Peace
 

Ataraxia

Well-known member
Oct 16, 2006
176
0
Ontario
Thanks alot guys! Dan, thanks a load for the detailed write up. taking apart the headliner is the last thing I want to do now, but if I gotta, then I gotta. Now I have a good understanding of what i'm up against.

Thanks again!
 

Sin39

Well-known member
open your sunroof, pour a cup full of water into the corner of your sunroof and see how well it drains. Are you sure the water isn't gettting underneath the plastic sunroof seal? Mine had a bunch of gaps, so I sealed them up with some RTV and the leaks went away.
 

Ataraxia

Well-known member
Oct 16, 2006
176
0
Ontario
Everything seems to be physically fine and tight. But today on a trail run my brother noticed dripping water coming down today again ("ummmm, there's water coming out of your sunroof SWITCH?"), and it hasn't rained in about a week. So I'm kinda thinking the water is just pooled from clogged drains. Hopefully tomorrow I will find the issue, leaving roofliner removal as a last resort.

I REALLY want to avoid removing the roof liner :eek:

Thanks again