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would there be any harm in rubbing wd-40 on my new weather stripping to stop the squeeking????? i read the label but no warning about contact with rubber. ron

I`d use a linseed oil and I`m sure there is a weather seal treatment that is also safe. I know on O-rings and helping instal tires a person shouldn`t use wd-40 as it will soon crack the rubber over time. That is just what I have read through manuals.

Don't use WD-40 on rubber parts. Use silicon spray lubricant or the stick lubricant that you can buy at hardware stores to lubricate shelf slides and which contains bees wax. I think you can buy that kind of lubricant at auto supplies also. Or you can send your wife (or sister/girl friend or self) to a sewing/fabric store to buy a chunk of bees wax. But make sure you get bees wax, not tailor's chalk. Or go to someplace that sells a variety of honey. But no WD-40.

Harvester

RuGlyde is especially made to be a rubber lubricant.

thanks all. i am reluctant to use silicon because of it effect on paint. Ron

Rather than spraying the silicone directly to the rubber parts, you can spray it onto a rag (well aaway from any parts that require painting), then apply it to the rubber that way.

Try Vaseline.

If your paint is cured it won't have any effect on the paint. It won't do anything to your paint that wax or polish won't. The only downside would be if you tried to paint over it without cleaning it off first.

This reminds me of the old mechanics story about WD40. A good mechanic can fix anything with WD40 and duck tape. You use the WD40 on stuff that should move but won't and you use the duck tape on stuff that should not move but does.

Hugh

WD-40 is a petroleum distillate may just be kerosene or some thing along those lines and that would eventually attack the foam rubber. I'd go with the silicone rubber lub that is made for just that like Harvester suggested. Silicone can cause problems with repainting it the substrate is not properly cleaned, but nothing is so tenacious that it can't be cleaned up if you ever need to paint it.
RuGlyde Ken? We used that by the 5gal bucket when I was a greaser at the Chevy dealership back in the late 50's. I believe it was a GM service product back in those days. We soaked all the rubber suspension components with it on every grease job. I haven't seen it for decades, if it's still available let us know where we can get it; I'd like to get a gallon.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

This plase has it.

"Silicon is a chemical element, the basic stuff of which microchips are made. Silicones are plastics and other materials containing silicon, the most commonly discussed example being silicone breast implants. Less used by the general public is “silica”: an oxide of silicon."

Silicone will not hurt most cured paint job but it leaves a residue that makes future paint jobs and/or repairs somewhat difficult to accomplish without having to clean thoroughly - otherwise, problems such as fisheye can be expected.

Some paint shops will not allow any silicone products in them, because of the possible contamination of the shop.

There are non oil-based, non-silicone based lubricants, so why not use them - water-based products mentioned above or products like K-Y Jelly?

http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/catalog/s...418121&navAction=jump&navCount=3

Use Armor-All or it's equivelant,
Scott

here you go denny. ruglyd also listed on ebay. thanks scott didn't think of that. i didn't want to spend 5.00 on somethig to use once. ron

try:
http://www.meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+RUB+16
http://www.meguiarsdirect.com/product_list.asp?HDR=search&SEARCH=rubber

Your friends at GM have : AC Delco weatherstrip lubricant. It is a silicone emulsion, and smells funny. But it will soften old rubber, and works fantastic.
Christopher.

A quick call to the WD-40 Dist. Plant out in SD. Calif. And she will tell you if it is safe to use on rubber products to stop squeeks.
I know this product is very water resistent as it was developed to keep the rust off parts for missile's. It took them forty trys to develope this chemical, hence the name WD-40! Oh one more tid bit DO NOT USE THE CHEMICAL FOR SPICING UP YOUR BAIT IF YOU FISH AS THE WD-40 WILL NOT DISPERCE IN WATER! Its a Federal Offence if you get caught using it according to the secretary at the plant where it is produced.. Just a little insite gentalmen.
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Don

I think what product to use has been covered well enough, but I wanted to relate a weatherstripping story:

Bought a brand new Honda van several years ago. After about 20,000 miles, the sliding back doors seemed to have welded shut. You couldn't open them things for the life of you! Turns out Honda's supplier made some batches of weatherstripping that failed to have silicone in the mix. They rely on silicone inside the "rubber" matrix to keep it lubricated so that it won't seal so good as to keep the door from opening. My short term solution was to spray silicone lubricant on the rubber. The long term solution was to bring the (*#&$(*# van back to Honda where they removed the doors and replaced the gaskets.

Bill

Hey Bill tks, I noticed that it says "leaves no residue", that's really not what you want for a weatherstrip lub now is it.
I guess Chevy they had us using it back in the day so the car sounded good when it left the shop and on the ride home. I suppose it was squeekin' away again the next day though.
Have to look up the Meguires next time I'm up at F&F and see if they stock any of those Jim. Bet they got silly cones in them though!
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL