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| | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 127 | Need some help,I have seen teck tip on the installation of door weather stripping & cab windlace. I have done some serches but with no luck,can someone point me in the right direction.
Thanks for any help, Don | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 | Alan Horvath, has a site with weatherstripping info at http://alanhorvath.com/54chevy/ . As far as the windlace, I just installed it on my '50. The first thing to do is to make sure that all of the channel crimps are straightened out. The channels are basically pounded in at places to hold the windlace. I just used a screw driver and twisted it to remove them. I then started by slipping through the top portion of the door which has two major bends and is the hardest. Pushing and pulling is the key. I did use some lubricant. I then looped the ends back and inserted them at the gaps in the channels near the top of the door and pushed and pulled them to the floor board. Note that the ends of the windlace go under the retainer strips for the bottom cab/door windlace. The strips have cut outs for this. This bottom windlace is glued to the outside edge of the retainer strip so that the little 90 degree inside edge of the windlace sits both on the floorboard and just over the edge to the rocker panel. This causes it to stick out a bit. Look at it all before hand and it should make sense. Good luck. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,441 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,441 | nice site... lots of good info there
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 127 | Rusty Rod; sent thanks Don | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 100 Member | | Member Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 100 | Since I had removed the door windlace retainers to have them painted, I drilled holes in the rubber to screw the windlace to the retainers on the ground then installed the whole business all at once. Just carried them over and leaned them up against the inside door frame. There wasn't any need to squeese the rubber into narrow gaps or use lubricants. I slit the windlace outside in a few places to match the curves. The only fine point was to leave enough room between the two halves for the headliner harp bracket to fit. With the rubber already holding the screws in place, they drove in pretty easy. The kit gave enough left over rubber at each end to poke under the flooring retainers front and back.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 | I use a sopy water concoction and sprayed every thing alot. | | |
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