Windshield seal

[firemanls]

Im about to go ahead and buy a new cowl and seal. Due to the fact I rigged the current one up with a crap tone of silicone and it looks like crap.
But question is when I get the new cowl and seal does the seal actually seal to the windshield or is it suppose to just kind of sit there? I put the silicone on there bc of water leaking on to the motor and into the coil wells. the foam seal was fine and holding up so it wasn't that.

 

[joegr]

Both of mine sit really tight against the windshield.
I had the windshield replaced on my 06 a couple of years back. When they returned it, there was a loud buzzing noise when going above 60 MPH. They told me it would stop in a day or two. It didn't. I took it back twice, and each time they did something, but didn't fix it. I then got to looking really closely at it. When they put the cowl back on, they missed on one of the places where it pushes in and locks. I corrected that and the buzz stopped. This is just a really long way to say that it fits really tightly against the windshield when installed correctly.

You are certain that both seals around the wiper shafts are good?

 

[firemanls]

You are certain that both seals around the wiper shafts are good?

Yes I just replaced them both and had a buddy of my pour water from a milk jug on the windshield when I was looking at the motor. Those foam seals were fine, but there we a couple other spots along the cowl seal that leaked.

 

[M4rk]

Water drains by design on the back of the engine block if I'm not mistaken. But not right on top of the coil covers.