1970 GTX tail lights leaking

[Mopewbie]

Hi all, I have a small waterfall in the trunk mainly coming through the tail lights nuts and also the gasket.

The lights are very badly designed and it creates a water bucket so the water has to go somewhere. I'm facing 2 issues here:

1- the screw from the bezels aren't in great condition so I can't tight it up effectively causing the leaking through the gasket (not much pressure to hold it).

2 - dripping from the nut. This one I can probably get away using some silicone but that means the water will stay there until it dries out.

Questions are:

1- Anything I can do to tight the bezels out as it is? Will it hold pressure if I try to create a new thread and use a "normal" nut?

2- gasket is quite thick, can I replace it for a butyl tape?

3- does it worth to try and create some sort of drain drilling a hole and attaching a little hose through the trunk?

I'l try to attach some pics. Thank you all.

 

[Photon440]

Even when I had my car jacked up in the rear I never had a leak from the tail lights. I don't think the design is bad, I think that your bad threads are likely the problem. You could try a heavy coating of silicon grease (electrical grease) along the gasket to try to repel the water.

 

[kiwigtx]

The gaskets around the tail lights may have dried out over time.

Bezel alignment is important, and it looks like your nuts might have scoured the pins up quite a bit.

This is a product of Canada, and advertised here in New Zealand....but you should be able to source the same product where you are:

Pro Form Dum Dum Strip Caulk - ADHESIVES & SEALERS - REPAIR - Wyatt Machine Tools

Body caulk/putty.....can be put on the area that appears to be leaking - much like Blu-Tack.