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Hello !

I just wanted to install the door opening weatherstrip at the cabin. There is of course the channel where I have to slip in the weatherstrip but this channel go just down to the upper door hinge. How to attach the weatherstrip below the upper door hinge ? Because the is no channel to slip it in ? Shall I glue it in place or how ? Please see the photo here : http://i442.photobucket.com/albums/qq146/Old_Cadillac/openingweatherstrip.jpg

Thanks for your help.

Tom

Tom, on my panel the strips below the hinge were tack welded apparently from the factory. In replacing the inner panels I notice one was missing.
You can order these from JimCarter. I don't think other vendors carry it.
I just ordered a one foot piece for $15. I started to try make it or get someone to make it but figure it wasn't worth the pain. I also think you can order longer lengths....I talked with Mike at JimCarter and they actually offer the entire thing!
Hope this helps.

It was very easy to make, I probably have some left in
the shop...Bill B.

What Alvin said.
You're definitely missing a piece of channel.
Bluedawg

Ouch... welding that strip in is going to do naughty things to that nice paint job. I've heard of guys just gluing the rubber directly to the inner cowl. Depending on your mindset you might want to try that.

Use two or three 1/8" pop rivets. You won't be able to see them and surely you can get the rubber past that little bit.....

In fact, my piece won't be here till monday and the painter has already painted the inside of my truck. We plan to pop rivet the pice to the inner panel.

Ouch... welding that strip in is going to do naughty things to that nice paint job.

not so if you plug hole weld the strip in w/ a tig. short bursts of heat then cool straight away.

Jim explain to me how you are going to get a ground with out scratching some paint off. Besides it is so much quicker to pop rivet the channel and use some silcone behind the rivit to keep moisture from getting around the hole. You could use some blind rivits to do the same job if you are worried about a hole colecting moisture.
62Blue
Don

gee, yes you will have to do just that, but it's under that strip of metal ( the hole or tig weld is NOTHING compared to the new strip that will have rubber over it..... that probably is going to get painted ANY-WAY) that has a small hole drilled in it. and you're just filling that w/ a tig-tack.

a very small grind mark can't possibly hurt and touch it up if any shows after you tig tack weld that 1/4'' surface.

or
do we have a show truck here or what??
if he's gotten this far and did not weld or have some idea about how to attach something there but the other side has, it's on impala
or live w/ the error

go ahead and drill a hole in the truck and pop rivit it
i don't care.
both work

If you don't want to go the welding or pop-rivet route you could try a #6 or #4 flat head sheetmetal screw. You should consider countersunk pop-rivets and be sure to get steel ones - aluminum against steel will suffer galvanic corrosion.

Why not just glue the metal strip on with epoxy, gorilla glue, etc.?

Woody's solution seems quite good - steel or stainless pop-rivets.