don't know if all this is typical, but I my '84 skylight sounds like it
could be your vans twin sister. Water drips down through the knob housing
too. My "light" has an obvious crack in it and I have been putting caulking
on it between rain episodes over the last couple of weeks. It seems to be
helping, but I still feel like I'm just delaying the inevitable. I've looked
into just buying the parts that I need and the cost is just a little less
than buying a whole new unit. Figure that the time and frustration of
assemling new parts with old parts is probably worth at least $50.00 of
unravelled nerves, I'll probably just buy a new unit.
Let me know what "fixes" yours.
Peace - donna
'84 Westy (Pepe)
'80 Westy (Pokey)

Marc Perdue wrote:

> Well, I'm really having fun with my methodical search for things that
> could use tinkering with and haven't been too badly disappointed!  :^)
> Should have seen this one coming when PO claimed that the skylight
> didn't leak, in spite of the duct tape and silicone caulk around the
> it!  Be that as it may, is it typical, when the skylight itself has a
> crack and leaks, for the water to drip through the knob that controls
> the skylight?
>
> Too bad that the reason I can't get up and fix the leak is that it has
> been raining for several days . . .  :^)  The good news is that I didn't
> discover the leak while sleeping under it in some remote location!
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Marc "on the 144 step program" Perdue