pours into the fuselage. I'm now sure that's where the water in the
fuselage came from.


Bill,
I went through the same drill with my Nimbus-3. Fixed everything, but on each
landing, I would have an inch of water in the belly. Finally found it was
caused by dumping with the gear down. The 2 wing dump valves are located in
just the right place to feed a vortex shed by the lowered gear and the vortex
sucks up some water into the wheel well. Sounds far-out, but I stopped getting
any water in my fuselage when I started dumping with the landing gear up.

My Nimbus had springs inside the wing and also on the dump shaft.

JJ Sinclair