Jeep: Water form under dash?

Hey all, I have a 89 YJ (just bought it 1 week ago) and today it was raining
pretty hard when I was driving home, while driving I noticed the floor was
getting wet and my pants were too, the water was coming from under the dash.
when I got home I took a look and yep there was quite a bit of water
dripping form the lip of the dash (underneith), it was too hard to see where
the water was actually getting in unfortunatly, there was water aound the
steering coloum and the stereo (I had to take the stereo out because it
wan't working properly anymore now that water was getting into it)...

So my question is... where is it most likely the water is coming from?? I'm
guessing from aound the base of the windshield or where the front end meets
the firewall area so I have siliconed everything up aournd there, this will
of course efect my lowering the windshield if I ever wanted too, but I had a
feeling that because the windshield does fold down that maybe the water was
getting in that way? I was driving so maybe it was from the wheels kicking
up the water? under the hood all looked dry

anyway any help is apriciated

thanks
Brent

No problem. One other thing, take a look at the gasket. It may be old,
worn and cracked. I'm told (From here) that if you let your windshield
down from time to time, it relaxes the gasket, and allows it to seal
better. I replaced my metal dash because I planned on keeping the jeep for
a long time. There are lots of good rust sealers out there like por15,
etc... but when I removed mine, I found rust behind it. Could be that your
seal is just leaking...let me know how it turns out.
Robb

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