My son did this job on his Spitfire and I watched. I just did it on my GT6
and it was easy. Here goes:
get the old stuff out any way you can. It can be a pain, you may have to
cut it into pieces, but get it out. In the process watch the clips and
DON'T let them fall inside the door. I lost one on each door. If you do
all is not lost, take the rear part of the door panel off reach inside and
pick them up from the bottom of the door.
Get something like a thin piece of metal or rod (no more than 1/16 inch or
so) that can be bent, but is strong. I used a piece of steel rod. Bend a
hook in the end that will hook around the clips and pull them back up on
the lip. Check that the clips line up with the places on the seal for the
clips (you will see them). Start at one end, hook your "hook tool" over
the clip and pull up while you press the seal flange into the clip. It
will go in fairly easy. Next clip, etc.
Took me 10 minutes on the first one and 5 minutes on the second and that is
on a GT6 so I had to trim the length.
Sam
At 04:09 PM 11/2/1998 -0500, Michael Thomas wrote:
>Anybody have any advice on the changing the outer door window seals?
>Removal of the old ones without losing clips into the door? Replacement
>of the new ones without losing clips into the door?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Mike
>'75 Spit
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