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| | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 | Is the rubber weather strip available that attaches below the rear doors or valance and is behind the rear bumper? Cant seem to find it.
Mac | | | | | | OLTrucks Unregistered | | OLTrucks Unregistered | are we working on a panel or suburban? what year? | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 | Sorry
61 panel with Barn Doors. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | try Steele Rubber Products, they have the earlier ones Bill | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 | According to steele they dont have them. They were my first phone call!
Mac | | | | | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | According to steele they dont have them. They were my first phone call!
Mac Do you have any of it left??? If so ask for a catalog or see if the have pics of their different universal on line. You may be able to match something up PLUS if you have a piece of it they might even be able to reproduce it for you...Joe | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 153 | Joe
Mine is gone! So matching one up wont work. I got a new rear bumper from a local scrap yard so I am going back to see if I can get a piece of the gasket I left behind. I just assumed they were available.... Eventually I'll learn! | | | | | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | | ZooKeeper Unregistered | You won't be the 1st or the last one to slap yourself on the forehead for doing something like that...Joe | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 335 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 335 | Its actually a piece of cloth reinforced rubber that is held on with a 1/2 wide u shaped metal piece. about 1/8 inch thick. you can probly find the material and slit it to the right width...there are kerf cuts on the corners so it bends with the bumper shape. i have 2 and there both worn out...i'll let you know if i find similar material....I was thinkind that the stuff they use on flat roofs would be good. my metal retaining pieces are pretty rusty so i'm looking for a replacement for that to. posibly the same pieces they use to hold the rubber down on flat roofs...if you need a pic of either give me a yell. | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | I need a pic of what is on a 56 GMC carryall/suburban. I see tinnerman nuts across the valance but don't know what goes there.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | hey guys - I put a scan of the seal from the assembly manual up here [click " full size" upper right] - the piece will be the same panel/burb 55-59 Chev or GMC ... it has been repro'd cuz I've got one in the parts stash for my project, from Golden State Pickup Parts, part #17-6RPS under bumpers [no picture provided] it is/can be just a straight piece of rubber about 3-4" wide if I remember right, just wide enuff to curl over and 'wedge' behind the bumper - the metal piece that holds it on the valence is channel shaped in the manual, but the one on my panel was just a flat piece and looks original - just held with screws into J-nuts I'll dig out the rubber sometime and get measurements, and post here .... sometime  Bill | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 Sir Searchalot | | Sir Searchalot Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,983 | Thanks alot Bill. I'm ready for a Bus ride.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | yer welcome! .... unfortunately rides are postponed for awhile   Bill | | | | | Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 137 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 137 | if the gasket [rubber} is flat i used some stuff made by "gortex"or gortec? i work as a boilermaker and it is used for steam or heating -cooling people as gasket material,it is black rubber w/ a slight strand of string or cord in it !most plumbing -pipe wholesale dealers sell it ,nice stuff ! good luck if you cannot find it i will get you some ! thanks mike "carryallman" wahl | | |
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