The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Help identify this weatherstripping (please)

Got this piece in with a large lot of parts I bought from a guy who had sold his project. I know it's for a '64-66 Chevy truck. I just have no idea what it's for. When I asked the seller, he said "I don't know -- I just ordered the part numbers my body man told me to buy." No help there. Of course, it's a loose piece with no tags whatsoever. Everything else was bagged and identified.

Here's what I've positively ID'd in this lot and therefore am sure it's not:

* inner/outer fuzzies
* door seals
* glass run channel (upper/back of door)
* division post glass run channel
* large rear window seal
* vent window kit
* windshield seal

This piece is about 11 feet long and seems to have a natural curve or twist to it. It may be molded to fit something, but I can't tell what because it's so floppy. Based on these pics, can anyone tell me what I've got? I'm hoping the cross-section is familiar to someone.

[img]http://homepage.mac.com/brossow/wstrip/0.jpg[/img]

[img]http://homepage.mac.com/brossow/wstrip/1.jpg[/img]

THANK YOU!

Brent

One more thing I forgot -- bonus points to anyone who can tell me what these are (from the same lot):

[img]http://homepage.mac.com/brossow/wstrip/2.jpg[/img]

Two pieces of bent metal with a hole in the center of each. Each piece is 2-5/8" by 3-3/4" -- sorry I didn't have something in the photo for size reference. Guess you can kinda tell by the 2" packaging tape holding them together....

I don't know what they are either but if you don't get a reply, you should go to the gallery section and contact some of the people that have the same truck. Send them an email with the attached pictures. Cecil........

The two pieces of flat/bent metal. Part of a spring mount? Good luck.

Awfully thin ... and the truck has coil springs all around (dunno if that disqualifies the part from that function, however.)

I think I figured out that the parts came from American Classic Truck. I emailed them the pictures and asked if they could identify them. The XSP2 part number isn't in their catalog as far as I can tell. I don't really care about those at this point, but I'd sure like to know what that weatherstripping is for....

See if you can get your hands on a Steele Rubber catalog. They make rubber parts for virtually every Chevrolet and their catalog has cross-section profiles of all the rubber parts.

Ooh -- that's great information! That ought to be exactly what I need. Here's what I got from the company tonight:

I'm really not sure what they were talking about with regard to the metal pieces. Can anyone enlighten me? What's the x-sill?

And I was slightly surprised that even the vendor didn't know what the rubber was for. Oh, well. Gotta track down a Steele catalog....

cross sill - the support of the bed floor - sounds possible, tho I don't recall them on any of my 60's trucks - but then I think I recall less every day maybe my brain is full?

Bill

Guess I'll find out if I ever get around to tearing this thing apart instead of just buying parts for it.

It could be that it doesn't go to your truck. Someone may have made a mistake and ordered the wrong part #. Also, company could have sent out wrong item. Like you say, someday if you tear it down, you'll find out. Cecil........

Yep -- that's a good point and something that has crossed my mind. In any event, a Steele catalog should be on its way to me next week. Maybe I'll get lucky with that. It's just such an odd piece with those four different grooves or openings or whatever you want to call 'em -- wide slots, narrow slits. Hoped it would be so unique as to be easily identifiable. Ah, well -- nothing's ever easy in this hobby.

Maybe the square plates are for seat belt reinforcement. Brian

That was my first thought, but (a) they're really too thin to do much reinforcing and (b) the vendor says they're cross-sill supports.

The rubber looks like a rear window weatherstrip that uses the separate keeper/retainer strip.

I had considered that, but it doesn't look even close to the rear window seal that was included with the lot (which I know is the correct one.) And it just has too many "slots" for anything I can think of. I checked again with the seller and he's sure this was ordered for his truck -- he's only got one project and the stuff was all kept together in the same box since it was delivered. Heaven forbid he have the original packing list, of course. Oh, well. Thanks for looking and thinking!

Here's the latest in this mini-saga and the point at which I give up. Got this yesterday from a very nice guy at Precision Replacement Parts, which manufactured most if not all of the weatherstrip in that lot I received:

Hi Brent,

I've had our restoration guy look at these and it's baffled him too. I've checked the profiles for the 64-66 Chevy truck and didn't seem to match anything.

If even they can't identify it, or at least can't identify it as a part for a '64-66 Chevy truck, then I give up because it really doesn't matter. It's obviously not for this truck and was probably thrown in by mistake somewhere along the line. Now the only question is do I tell Richard Lewis ... I mean, do I keep the weatherstrip or just toss out 11' of good but unidentifiable rubber? (And if anyone can identify the 'Richard Lewis' reference, I'll send you this mystery rubber for the cost of shipping. )

Thanks to everyone who offered advice. If that Steele catalog shows up, I'll browse through it just out of curiosity, I suppose....

Brent

Brent:

The metal pieces are the bearing plates for the aftermarket cross sills. On the factory cross sills they are spot welded on the bottom of the cross sills in the locations where they contact the frame rails. They are sold loose on the aftermarket cross sills because on the factory cross sills each sill has a specific location thus the bearing plates have a specific location. I bought a set of cross sills from Chevy Duty for my '66, C-10 and it came with these bearing plates. The bearing plates distribute the weight of the bed and any loading equally to both bottom flanges of the cross sills and keeps them from collapsing or compressing. They install between the cross sill and the frame rail with the bed mounting bolt going through the bed wood, cross sill, bearing plate and frame rail.

Good luck with identifying the rubber gasket. I don't think it goes on a '64-'66, however I don't know about other years.

Thanks for the info, Tony. That's pretty much what I had figured out thanks to another source but forgot to mention here. I appreciate the extra detail, though! (Well, I appreciate *all* of the info, but especially the details.)

After looking at the pictures again I can see now that is NOT what I thought it was. Sorry.