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Subject: TR4 Rubber Door Seals
From: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:18:30 -0700
Looking to fit new rubber door seals on the TR4... the original style 
with separate fuzzy seals and rubber seals.  The channels are in good 
shape -- but the fitting of that hard rubber lip into them is a puzzlement.

Do I slide it in from one end -- this seems easy enough until I get to 
the first sharp turn... or does one tuck one lip in and press the other 
home along the entire length?

I'm using some silicone spray as a lube as it seemed less troublesome 
than dishwashing soap, perhaps petroleum jelly would also be effective.

This is with the replacement seal sold by TRF.  The portion that fits in 
the channel being much stiffer than the rubber that forms the seal (and 
possibly stiffer than the original though that's difficult to judge by 
looking at a 40-year-old seal).

Geo Hahn



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