Anyone know or has a diagramm of where the draintubes release the water from a steel sliding sunroof in a type three notch.
There is one each side forward and one each side behind
Just can seem to see where they exit diwn below.
Cheers
Steffen

I fitted a Golde slider into my Oval Beetle and the body I cut it from was too rusted to see where any drains were. I decided to come up with my own idea for drains. I used 13mm plastic tube from each fitting and run all drains to exit under each mudguard. At the end of each tube I used a 13mm black drip system 90 degree elbow. I found a rubber sealing bung that was tight on the elbow,then used a hole saw to cut the correct size hole to suit the OD of the sealing bung. Then connected the plastic tube to the elbow,pushed it through the bung, then used black dripper hose to run down under the guards. I made the dripper hoses long enough to end near the floor pan and used a clamp bolted under the very bottom mudguard bolts.This way you will never have a chance of water getting into your car to start rust happening. I did put a smear of silicone around each drain pipe before I pushed the plastic tube on. I also used those O clamps that you pinch up with a tile cutter. There is a post on here from the time I restored my Oval and there were some pics of the drain tube locations. If you can't find them- message me and I can send you some.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Mine is actually a factory golde sliding sunroof and all the pipes are there and installed
So I like to know where they would exit any info on original exit points would be great.
Cheers
Steffen

Mat why not flush water through them and find out?

mitchell

Drains are blocked.
Thats why i want to know how and where they run to unblock them .
I just cant see a tube coming out the bottom.

Try weed eater/ wipper snipper line down the tube?
M

Will try cheers
In the meantime i am still after some info /even a diagramm of the tubes
Thanks

Mine is a factory Golde sunroof- I just transferred it to another body. As I posted, it was to rusted to actually spot where the drains were- hence the need to improve on that set up. I suspect the drains were in the front quarter panels and drained near the heater tube and the rears went into the quarter panels and drained somewhere near the jacking points. I have a Type 3 workshop manual with an excellent section on how to maintain and adjust the sliding mechanism - I will check it out for drain locations.

Cheers that would be great
Thanks

you might find something here

http://oacdp.org/ 

Wow what a cool and crazy site
A lot of info there
I can't find anything useful on type three drainpipes / body stuff though
Will do a bit more searching
Hopefully I am not getting distracted reading about all the other stuff there
Cheers

No info found on that site. Still looking for a diagramm or something.
Would the bentley manual for type threees have it?
Can someone check.
Cheers
Steffen

My Type 3 Workshop Manual shows only adjustments and R&R procedure.You should be able to see a drain tube coming from the A pillars going somewhere down into front 1/4 panels.On the Beetle they come out alongside the wiring loom from the roof channel.The rears should run down the body panel behind the rear 1/4 windows and could even go forward and drop from the body somewhere near the jacking point or go backwards and drop out behind the rear wheel arch.From memory when I cut mine from the Beetle,there were round ferrules that had been crimped to the body just outside where it meets the floor pan at each 1/4 panel.The bulk of the ferrule was inside the body where the tube would have attached,with only about a 10 or 12mm hole visible from underneath.