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| | | | Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 54 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 54 | Any tricks to sliding the door rubber in to the track on the body? 52 truck | | | | | Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 554 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2009 Posts: 554 | I haven't got to try this yet but have been noting suggestions since several people have commented about struggling with this task. For starters, make sure the factory pinched areas are opened up. You should find a few of these on each side. Take a small piece of the strip and see if it will glide throughout the entire channel. If not open those areas a little. I used a old screwdriver with the tip bend over at 90 degrees to open the factory pinched areas. Lube the rubber with soapy water or some other lubricant. Don't use silicon if you plan to paint anytime soon. Some people apparently have been able to start at an open spot and feed the rubber both directions. Others have resorted to poking it into the channel with a blunt tool. I am still a ways off from installing the rubber myself. Good luck and let us know how it went.
Chuck | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,596 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,596 | As noted above the Factory Assembly Manual has a diagram for how to do it and where to pinch it. I used K-Y 0n a Q-tip that I wiped in the track not on the rubber. Note this was after paint I had both of mine in after about and hour. | | | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 Ex Hall Monitor | | Ex Hall Monitor Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,377 | You mean there's TWO uses for KY???? 
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 134 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 134 | I used WD 40 worked great!!
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | ...and even windex will make it slick as cow slobber if you wet it down good. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,038 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,038 | Just did this on my COE and the above answers contain the keypoints. First, make yourself a two inch long segment of the new or old rubber and slide this along the track. This will locate all the pinch points, some you won't have detected at all. Open those up with a screwdriver or other tool. I used Windex for lubricant, works great and doesn't leave a residue. I started at the upper rear open area and fed the rubber down the relatively straight rear area. This will give a feel of what it will be like. I would add that to have two people will make it go alot faster and easier. Once you get a good length in the track, you need to pull at the leading edge of the rubber while you feed new rubber at the rear. Two people do this much better.
Kent | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 | ...and even windex will make it slick as cow slobber if you wet it down good. Hey, why not use cow slobber?! | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,733 | When I was a kid (back in ought9) there was a saying "slicker'n snot on a gold tooth".
Sounds pretty slick to me. | | |
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