Missing from what location, acchaplin?
No, sorry you misunderstood my statment. Since I did NOT know all the details about the 'leak'. (I was not on any Lincoln forums then. Dodn't even think there was a web site for the late model Town Car ) I 'surmised' the leak was a missing section of seam sealer. Since most leaks happen at a 'pinch weld section' that either the seam sealer was 'not' applied, (factory) or was applied (factory) improperly.
The day I discovered the back floor had 2" of water laying in it. I immediatly took out the back seat, saw no 'visible trails of water' and preformed a quick garden hose 'leak check' around the rear glass and rear door. Since there were no 'leaks' there, in the 'obvious' locations. (you know, rear, one side, that is the logical location a leak would be. You do not go into the kitchen to replace a light bulb that is burned out in the bedroom.)
I quickly took off the right rear scuff plate lifted up the carpet, saw that thick foam sound deadener was litterly soaked, left rear and, as far forward as I could reach. The ONLY way that carpet would thouroghly dry was if I removed it placed it up on 'horses' and placed box fans blowing up under it. (When I did that, it took 4, 24 hour days, fans never shut off, for that carpet to thourghly dry!)
It took several days of shuffling the garage around so I could place the car so I could dismantle the entire interior, and place everything so I could dismantle the center console and the passenger side front seat. For both the console right side mounting brackets, and the rear section of the front passenger seat mounts were very badly rusted! The right rear side console mount had started to rust away on the one edge. The rear seat frame was not corroded at all!
After sending those brackets and such off to be sandblasted and powder coated. The driver's seat tracks and bottom frame I used a scuff pad, and just 'rattle can' them real good.
I went to a custom leather shop and got a gallon of
leather cleaner, and coditioner. After scrubbing, scrubbing and scrubbing some more, I got the seats 'very' clean and 'very' soft and supple with the conditioner. I used 8 cans, (6 with the carpet on the garage floor, 2 with the capet in the car), of Resolve Heavy Traffic Pet Stain Remover spray carpet cleaner. Along with one of those hand held carpet scrubbers that had the roating brush heads, and a rather stiff hand held brush.
Befor I installed the refurbished light Palomino colored interior, and the extra sound deadner, is when I did the leak checking and took all the pictures. (which I can't seem to find right now)
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