"Weatherstrip Guide" Inquiry

[snailwagon]

A little curious here about the entire weatherstripping guide that heath posted a while back.

With the door weatherstrip, how is this mounted. The JC Whitney part number lists a push on type. Are holes drilled for the plastic pins and then adhesive applied?

For the door molding, is this that crap that SOR carries that is door molding with weatherstripping as one piece? If so, would just the factory molding and the door weatherstripping be enough to keep everything tight?

Funny, I wasted money with $OR a while back on window channel, only to have it be so oversized that it resulted in welds breaking from having to force the windows up and down. Seems like they would have researched better, the channel listed on the "weatherstrip guide" is much smaller, like it is supposed to be.

I ordered everything but the door molding ( I have some very nice unused stock ones that someone happened to stash in the early 1980's) and the stuff from PVCruisers, nice but not economically feasible for a non restoration vehicle.

The door weatherstrip is nice how it actually has the 90 degree in it. I am just reusing the old clips for the felt.

 

[HeathRJ]

Snailwagon - sorry I did not explain installation.

Door Weatherstrip:
-Clip off the plastic pins - you will not use them and it will only be in the way
- Do not "cut" the weatherstrip - it is the perfect length once it is stretched around the door
-the door has a channel that the strip is pressed into (same as original)
-start at the 90 degree corner & work your way around the door ending at the bottom where there is a metal fitting that screws into the bottom of the door and holds the ws in place.
-purchase some 3m black ws adhesive to "glue" the ws in place in the areas of the door where there is not a "channel"

 

[snailwagon]

Thanks, I wasn't sure if you were brave enough to use those plastic clips and drill 12 holes into your door. Already got the giant tube of black 3M.

Does the door molding that you list have weatherstrip attached to it, I cannot tell on the picture?

the weatherstrip is going in tomorrow. JCW keeps sending me parts of my order, one piece at a time. Yesterday they sent me the rear window outer felt/scraper. This piece is very nice for the price, maybe better than stock?

 

[HeathRJ]

Yes - the body moulding has a weatherstrip attached and worked quite well on my truck.

 

[snailwagon]

Yesterday I put in the door weatherstrip. It actually took a while to get all of it clipped into the outer channel. Some clamps and 3M for a couple of hours and it looks like a million bucks. Mine was about 1.5" too long, maybe I installed it too tight. I cut out this and glued the rubber back together on the underside of the door. The plastic clips pull out easily. I would suggest all pig owners to purchase this stuff, it really does fit nicely for an otherwise unobtanium part.

I liked the window channel, until I tried installing it. It was actually too small, actually not deep enough. The channel in the door is deeper than the rubber channel. It is going in anyways and does work though.