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does anyone know what company sells the most inexpensive kits for doing the doors/windows, et. in a 1961 chevy apache

my experience with weather stripping has been to buy quality, I once tried some inexpensive (not qulity) trying to save a few bucks and ended up trashing it, try steelerubber.com they have a good product and prices are fair comparied to some vendors.

I agree, but there's always JC Whitney!
I use Steele for my stuff

you get what you pay for

After reading the posts here and Alan's (as always) outstanding educational guides on his experience I need to go and check out my work... I used the rubber stripping from Chevy Duty and the little plastic clips were well-placed for the receiving holes on the door. I used a black silicone adhesive because it seemed like it was necessary. Chevy Duty almost never includes any instructions so you're left trying to figure out the stuff you just bought. I did go to the Brother's Technical pages and found some fairly useful info BUT they state: "Weather stripping can go on either door two different ways. The correct way is with the big lip against the door lip as shown." Which is what I did...HOWEVER, on Alan's site the photo of the instruction sheet from Steele shows the larger rubber lip installed AWAY from the door lip... Man, oh man did I install it all backwards????? Sheesh.

This picture from Steele does show the correct position for installing the door rubber (see top right corner, below):
[img]http://www.alanhorvath.com/54chevy/chevypics/SteeleRubberKit.jpg[/img]

The best adhesive I have found to hold the weather stripping to the doors or anything else is windshield urathane.have to wear rubber gloves,the throw away type.This stuff finds a way to get on you no matter how careful you are.But it' perfect for the job

Yup Alan, sure looks like they suggest that the big lip be positioned away from the door lip. Check out these instructions...
http://www.brotherstrucks.com/tech/...THER+STRIPPING+INSTALLATION&index=12
which were the ones I had to use because Chevy Duty didn't include ANY instructions with the rubber I bought from them...

Larry,

I received instructions from Chevy Duty and they showed the wrong orientation. The orientation shown and described by Alan is the same as shown in the Factory Asembly Manual (and works fine with Chevy Duty weather stripping on my two trucks).

Tim

It only makes sense, eh? You want the rubber to compress against the body of the truck when you close the door ... and the best way to achieve that is as illustrated.

The only thing that makes sense Alan is that every part of the project will take far longer and cost more than expected!

HA!

Ain't THAT the truth!