The Stovebolt Site Forums The Parking Lot '60-'66 Trucks Oh the joys of 60-63 vent window refurb.......

It's hard to believe that it would take the better part of an hour and half to take apart two vent windows, on a workbench They came apart fine. Getting the d**n dried rubber off of them both is what took the time even with a razor knife.

Question #1
I have the new rubber gaskets thay go on them but it seems to me that thee is a small portion you need to remove in-order to fit just right. Anybody do this lately?

Thanks
Jake

i havent lately, is it too short or too long? If its too long you'll just have to cut it square and use good weatherstriping adhesive to bong the joints...my 2 cents, goodluck

The original gasket fit in the shell does the new stiff simply get glued to the frame?

Jake, I wish I could help. However I will make a comment or two.
I'm doing mine off the 52panel and my rubber gasket fits in the "slot" all the way around. However I got really frustrated at trying to get the rivets set which hold the vertical strip that the wing vent closes on. I ended up gluing mine and throwing those crapy rivets away. I beat and beat with the little tool you get with them and never got one single rivet to flatten correctly.

In place of the rivet that the wing vent pivots on I had a local machinist make me two sets of "bolts" that look just exactly like the rivets but had a little nut on the bottom. ($10)
Yours is probably nothing like this..... so all this is just for information...use it if you can or maybe it will help someone else.

I'll try to get some pitures tomm. and post them in webshots. I had heard about glueing the rubber strip with 3-m weather adheavsive. But I still need to figure out how to mount the curved piece.

I've been trying to seat the new rubber gasket in the groove got about 85% seated can't seen to get the rest, what a PITA. I've been ready to toss the whole thing through the window today!

Put it up for the night will try tomorrow night heating it with a hair dryer. I've been at it for about 4 hours. - Yuck what a way to spend saturday!

Hang in there I'm sure you'll get it. I was going to do mine but maybe I'll wait on that for now.
Joe

What I might do is boil some water and heat up the section that won't seat to see if I can push her in that way OR I'll use a hair dryer. I'm using a bit of axle grease to give it a little slide.

Well, let us know the outcome. Hopefully you got her done.
Joe

The weather turned cool (THANK YOU GOD) and I got home late will keep you posted. Somebody in the group has had to have done this by now, what the secret?

Jake

I did my vent windows on my '66 a couple of months ago. I'm not certain if they are the same as yours but here is what I did. I left my rubber weatherstrip sit out in the Florida sun for a couple of hours to get flexible. Then, I used a little Dawn dish soap to lubricate the rubber so that I could work it into the groove. I still had a difficult time getting the weatherstrip into the groove until I thought of a tool that would help - a screen window tool - the one with the roller on the end that you use to roll the spline into the groove when you are repairing window screens. Worked like a charm. I had trouble with the rivets but I finally did get them to work. Hope this helps. BTW - this is a three beer job!

Thanks Tim

Since I have them 3/4 the way in I'm going to set the whole assembly in the sun and use the roller like you mentioned. I have a bit of grease on them already. But if I have to, I'll pull them off clean them up and try your method from start.

Thanks

Where did you all buy your vent window weatherstripping? I bought some from Harmons out of Geneva, IN and everything worked great until I put the whole assembly back in the door. Regarding the long vertical part of the vent window (not the vertical divider that seperates the vent window and the window window), after the assembly there was a good quarter of an inch gap between the weatherstripping and the frame of the vent window. The upper and lower parts of the vent window fit fine. I had thought that I had seen some success stories on this thread regarding where people had ordered this weatherstripping and had no issues with a particular supplier.

don't jump modelman!

It's just as aggravating on a '65.

I still have to do my passenger side... *sigh*

Not something I'm looking forward too.

-W

if i follow what you are trying to do. we used to put kerosene or go-jo on the rubber then press it into the channel. after it seats trim off the extra with a razor knife.