Its been driving me crazy for the past few months on how to get a good seal around the back window while
it is in place. I kept picturing, in my mind, leaks around the corners and down the side of the interior walls.
After a caffeine and chocolate induced sleepless night, I came up with an idea. Let the water come in!
Thats right, let it leak in all over the place! Mother nature is a powerful force, and water will be water.
The two best ways to deal with water leaks is to make an object so watertight it is now a solid, or allow
for the water and just deal with it.
I already planned for a drip channel under the back window resting place incase water gets in while the top
is down. Sumner’s TD had one in his purple TD ( there is a link above ) and another builder suggested one in
another build. Sorry I can't remember that link. The light gold color is the drip channel in both pictures.
I extended the drip channel to run from edge to edge of the camper and then turn 90 deg down to allow water
to flow down both side in drain into the fender wells. This channel running down the side of the camper also
gave me more room for a bigger edge lip around the back opening of the shell. The light Green is the new bigger
edge lip, allowing for a bigger surface area for the seal around the back window. The Back window is shown
swinging into place.
This picture below shows the back window in place. There is a Lip on the bottom of the window frame that will
rest on the back on the teardrop and have a rubber strip under it. This lip will double as the resting place for the
shell after the tension is released of the the cable lifting system. A locking system will somehow hold it in place.
Most of my picture are screen captures of my cad program. I usually just model one half of a project, then copy
and flip the other side. In case anyone is wonder why I say the channel goes from side to side of the camper and
in the picture you see it does not.