I bought a rubber "Kit" from Vicky-Brit.
I installed the waist as well as the fuzzy's.
I have had a major job of getting the glass back in the tracks after the
rebuild.
Is there a Right side vs left side ?
I don't see any difference in the two pieces of glass.
If anyone has the secret could they share it for putting the glass back ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou
[mailto:dougnad@bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 9:54 AM
To: JM Weber; Spitfire (E-mail)
Subject: Re: waist seals
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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