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I just got a new rubber gasket for the front cowel vent. The problem I'm having is that it's different from the old one. The cross section of the old one was a rectangle about 3/16" thick and 1/4" wide, the new one is L shaped. I have figured that the upright of the L goes toward the inside of the opening, but the bottom of the L is about a 1/2" wide and dosen't fit into the grove in the body. If I push it down into the grove It looks like it will work but it dosen't stay put.

Has anyone installed one of these, does it get glued in, or is it just the wrong one. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks George

You are supposed to glue the weatherstrip to the body with weatherstrip adhesive.

Thanks Josiah, I can see using glue to hold it down but it seems like the one I have will not even fit into the channel in the cowel. It appears to be too wide, unless I fold it in the middle whidh would make real hard to hold in place while the glue drys.

George

Weatherstrip adhesive is a contact cement. so coat the channel and then the weather strip, and let them dry a bit before you press them together and they will stick, just like using rubber cement.

There seems to be more than one type of weatherstrip. The original kind was the soft sponge rubber, which seems to work ok. There is another kind that is molded but I don't have any experience with it.

We experienced the same problem with our '42 and believe that the aftermarket rubber gaskets should be glued to the cowl vent itself. After placing the gasket on the cowl, I put the weatherstrip adhesive on what you referred to as the bottom of the "L" and then gently closed the vent, until the cement set. We tried at least a couple venders and the gasket looked the same so this must be the way it is designed. The relationships between the gasket and vent surfaces are very different than an AD cowl vent.