interior panels

[packratt]

How does the rear seat and plastic paneling remove in a 98 extended cab?

Chasing leaks and need to pull the carpet to dry everything out. Believer most of the leak is where 1/2 the rear window has come unglued.

 

[mattthebrat]

I have never done it on your style truck, but on everything else.......
the back panel just pops off.
Take the covers off of the seat belt bolts, and remove the bolts (T45)
The side panels should then pop off (be very careful those clips break)
The tool holder should have two 10mm studs and nuts holding it down
I believe the seat has 4 studs and nuts holding it down.

I am sure I have forgot something!

 

[Chevylover]

How does the rear seat and plastic paneling remove in a 98 extended cab?

Chasing leaks and need to pull the carpet to dry everything out. Believer most of the leak is where 1/2 the rear window has come unglued.

Yepp, check the rear window. Got the same prob with mine. Every week water in the driverside foot aera. Lokked over and over for it. Than a buddy from denmark gave me the hint. Had a look and yes, I could press the rear window about a half inch out on the driverside. You could push a newspaper through. There was glue , but it doesn't connected the windowframe (sliding window).
Cut it out, cleaned it and re-glued it back in. Now - noe more water.

Cu,
Sven

 

[mattthebrat]

Packratt, do you have a sliding rear window?
Those things are junk, when I see one, it's screams LEAK at me!

 

[Joey D]

My rear slider will leak but only when I was it, you have to spray directly at the window. It leaks at the center piece that slides, the rubber on the bottom is worn out.

 

[packratt]

It's a slider but the slider portion doesn't leak. The leak is where the window is not glued from the center of the window over to one side of it.

Had pulled the 3rd brake light to silicone everything and looked down and saw light behind the window.

 

[mattthebrat]

Boy was that window replaced? It sounds like a bad glue job to me!

 

[Tookie]

My truck leaked badly when I got it, rear window was a slider, someone
did a half-assed job putting it in, I had it replaced with a solid rear,
dark tint glass. Still had a leak towards the front, ended up having to
buy all new cab marker lights and bases, cracks in all of them.
For a while, I was riding around with just a drivers seat, pulled out
everything else, seats, carpet, headliner, console........ The trim pieces
at the rear corners are getting old and brittle on our trucks, be careful

 

[packratt]

I haven't put a new rear window in. What the previous owner did during the 9 years 230,000 miles I haven't a clue.

 

[fastjohnny]

I've had more than one rear window come loose and need new urethane sealing. I don't know if it is due to cab flex popping it loose, adhesion failing, or both. The urethane has pulled away from the paint in some cases. (The windshield urethanes claim to be primerless, but I question that sometimes)