sinking type 44, help!

[Cassidy Bolger]

Gang,

I opened the rear door of my 1986 5ktq today and found the rear right seat 
floor to be completely flooded.  Water had risen to the level of the bottom 
of the door.  The battery was sitting in four inches of water.  My first 
task was to carefully remove it and then I began to bail!
Here is the story,
  The car has been sitting for three weeks parked pointed uphill on the 
right side of a steep and crowned San Francisco street.  We have been 
receiving major rain for several weeks, and the Audi has been catching it 
for me.  So, water is entering somewhere, and it settled in the right rear 
since that is the lowest point of the car in its present position.  There 
was so much water that even the right front seat floorboard is wet.  A 
clogged sunroof drain? The headliner and pillars seem clean and dry.  The 
car has always held some water in the  left rear well in the trunk, so I 
looked there next.  Alas, the well was full and overflowing into the spare 
wheel well.  So, I have a full left wheel well and right side of the 
interior is a swimming pool that is quickly growing things. I live in the 
center of the city and have to park on the street, so these days I don't do 
much work on the car myself.  Should I go to a body man or a regular 
mechanic?  I have a good mechanic down the street.  In the long term, any 
advise for saving the carpet.  How am I going to dry this thing?  I hate not 
having a garge!
Maybe Bosch makes a bilge pump for cars  ;)

Cassidy Bolger
1986 5kcstq (a.k.a The Ark)
San Francisco
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