Running water in the drivers side B pillar

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A month ago, I was driving in the mountains of NC. There was a torrential down pour, such that I had to pull off of the road, into a small rest area. Turns out that I wasn’t the only person that did. After doing so, I could hear running water in the drivers side B pillar, right about ear level. It was as if there was a hose running in there.. water going everywhere within the metal structure. Not the sound of water running inside of the ‘plumbing’ so to speak.

I remember now, that many of our LC’s had a mysterious quality hold at the port, after getting off the boat. Later someone posted that it was to fix the water drain tubes for the sunroof. IIRC it was simply putting a different type of clamp on the tubing, where it joined with another tube. The ‘fix’ involved dropping the entire ceiling head liner down to do so. Then reassembling everything.

Has anyone else heard this ‘running, gushing, water sound” in either of the B pillars? Does anyone have the info from the TIS site, on how to properly do this repair, or the part number of the required clamp?
 
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A month ago, I was driving in the mountains of NC. There was a torrential down pour, such that I had to pull off of the road, into a small rest area. Turns out that I wasn’t the only person that did. After doing so, I could hear running water in the drivers side B pillar, right about eat level. It was as if there was a hose running in there.. water going everywhere within the metal structure. Not the sound of water running inside of the ‘plumbing’ so to speak.

I remember now, that many of our LC’s had a mysterious quality hold at the port, after getting off the boat. Later someone posted that it was to fix the water drain tubes for the sunroof. IIRC it was simply putting a different type of clamp on the tubing, where it joined with another tube. The ‘fix’ involved dropping the entire ceiling down to do so. Then reassembling everything.

Has anyone else heard this ‘running, gushing, water sound” in either of the B pillars? Does anyone have the info from the TIS site, on how to properly do this repair, or the part number of the required clamp?
I have had this sound on my 5th GEN 4Runner. Assuming the sunroofs are of similar design, two out of the x4 drain tubes run through the A pillars, with a large volume of water I can hear what you are describing (on the 4Runner).
 
Is there water inside of your LC?
I haven’t even looked yet. It has been parked in NC, since I left NC to go back to FL. I need to try and duplicate it when I get back to NC.
 
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