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Re: waist seals

To: "JM Weber" <weberjm@teleport.com>,
Subject: Re: waist seals
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:53:53 -0400
Last winter I installed two new seals from TRF.  They were not the same,
though.  They looked identical at first glance, but one had thicker and
stiffer rubber than the other.  I got the impression that one was
older than the other.  But they both installed OK, and neither one
had the sort of problem you describe.

Possibly after the car sits a while, the seals will get used to
being bent, and will be happier staying in the correct position.

The only problem I had was that rolling the windows up all the way
would start pushing the rear of the seals up away from the door.
I fixed the window tracks so the windows would not go up so far.
As a bonus, the tops of the windows no longer brush the edge of my
hardtop roof when I open and close the doors...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit


At 09:50 AM 7/24/00 -0700, JM Weber wrote:

>Hallo,
>
>Just got done doing the waist seals on the passenger door.
>Thanks to the archive, I had some problems, but nothing major.
>They're in, and are a huge improvement.
>
>However (there's always something, eh?), the window won't roll down without
>grabbing the outer seal and taking it down with itself into the door.
>Putting some water on the window-seal interface solves this.


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