On a 69, where does water drain which comes into the quarter panel area (near the door jamb)? When replacing the quarters would it be a good idea to spray the area on the inside with bed liner or some other undercoating?

While mine is a 68, I shot the whole inside area with eastwood rust encapsulator and chassis black while the quarter panel was off.

There are long oval holes in the verticle side of the rocker panel that the water goes in. On my USA made ones they didnt have the holes so I had to make them.

it drains thru the rocker and exits out in front of the rear wheels. There are rubber flappers back there that open when water comes thru but over time, the rockers get filled with leaves and crud and soon becomes blocked. You can flush that area to open it or use a plumbers snake to pull out junk. ;)

My rockers were in good shape, but I fabbed a wand out of 1/4" copper tubing and hooked it to a sprayer to shoot rust inhibitor into the rocker. The tube was pinched closed on the end and I drilled 6-8 small holes radially around the end. The painter hooked it to his sprayer and sprayed liberally as he pulled the wand back out the flapper hole in the rear wheelwell.

I did this too but it was not as sophisticated. I fabbed a wand out of 1/4" aluminum electrical conduit (cheaper than copper) and tied a foam paint bursh to the end. I ran it through a rust hole in the real wheel well and coated the inside of the rockers with rust encapsulator. When I was done, I cut out the rusted area in the wheel well and welded in a patch.

Here are the holes

one near the door
http://www.fototime.com/B2E4BEC43CF215D/standard.jpg
the rear most one
http://www.fototime.com/315BF253925D1B7/standard.jpg

This is weird, I was wondering this myself last weekend. My wife took the car to wash it, and the passenger quarter dripped for like 3 hours. I checked the flapper and it was open, but I think the hole to the quarter must be plugged. Are the holes the same for a convertible?

(Thanks for the pics Kevin!)

It looks like the quarter drain hole would be directly opposite the rubber flapper, is that correct? Should be easy to reach in there and clean it out with a wire or something.

Jerry, those pics are from my SS vert, so yes :)

Excellent, thanks again for the photos!

There is an another excellent photo of the drain holes for a coupe in the following thread, post #97, last photo:

http://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?p=985043#post985043

Just wanted to follow up on this so future searchers on this subject will have the benefit.

I tried to clear the quarter panel holes with a wire from the rocker and was having no luck whatsoever. This last weekend, I washed my car and the passenger quarter was still dripping last night (3 days later!). Not good. Obviously, I had to do something soon, so I resigned myself to a major tear down to get inside and clear the hole.

Good news, it's really fast and easy, not at all as lengthy as I thought! I started removing the seat trim rear panel so I could get in there because I was focusing on getting down low where the the holes are. What I found out was that you don't need to remove any interior pieces at all, just pull the door jamb vent out! This part:

http://www.rickscamaros.com/product.asp?pf_id=IN-23R&dept_id=3384&cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Interior+-+Door+%26+Window+-+Door+Jamb+Related-_-IN-23R-_-X (http://www.rickscamaros.com/product.asp?pf_id=IN-23R&dept_id=3384&cm_mmc=Froogle-_-Interior+-+Door+%26+Window+-+Door+Jamb+Related-_-IN-23R-_-X)

The vent holes are positioned perfectly, and there's plenty of room to stick a shop vac into the bottom and suck the offending materials out. In my case, the problem was a 3" by 1/2" strip of plastic rear window material and half a dozen convertible top staples from some prior top replacement. These slowed down the flow enough to let some dirt build up and plug the drain. I cleared the drain holes with some welding rod, scrubbed the bottom clean and flushed it all out with a hose. Plenty of room to work and you can see everything clearly with a flashlight. I'll probably pull these door jamb vents out and clean things out once a year from now on just to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Thanks again to you guys for the pictures, that really helped to figure out where the problem was!

Glad it worked out and wasn't a bigger problem! thanks for the update.

One thing I noticed when replacing quarters and rockers is that the holes in the top of the rockers are not at the lowest point by probably 3/8" . The lowest point is where the quarter folds under on top of the rocker. I would imaging water sets in this area until it evaporates but noticed lot of rusting in that area when replacing things.

Dirt!!!? What are you guys doing around DIRT?

Dirt!!!? What are you guys doing around DIRT?

Some of us are still driving them! ;)

http://www.04snake.com/images/movie_images/wheelie20camaro69wl2.jpg

As for rocker panels, i dunno what others feel about it but we drilled 4 holes along under side of rocker then from inside wheel well drain hole sprayed eastwood anti rust wax inside the rocker. The eastwood shutz gun came with a long wand and a flex hose attachment. So now its coated and when water gets in it will/can drain out the small holes we put down along the length of the rocker panel. No more worry about debris clogging a drain plug.