Date:         Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:15:48 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Keezer <warmerwagen@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Removing internal window rubber
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2007011911022459@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

I've been kicking Vanagon side windows out with
my feet for 11 years-probably over 50 of them.

The ones I am careful with are the slider and
center driver's side. The aluminum frame can bend
so these I push instead of kick.

Robert

1982 Westfalia






--- Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> The 4 side windows can be removed in 15 minutes
> or less,total.Use a
> 22ounce claw hammer that has the claws at an
> almost straight curve(?).A 16
> ounce claw hammer has the claw curves too
> steep, that will bump on the
> metal.Just stick the claws between the rubber
> and window frame and
> twist.Out, in 30 seconds.
>
> Scrub your rubber clean with fine steel wool
> lubricated with soap. Gob
> vasoline on the rubber and let the sun soak it
> into the rubber.This time
> of year it takes several days.It will
> rejuvinate  the rubber and make it
> lok almost new.
>
> When installing the windows, use vasoline as a
> lubricant.It will soak into
> the rubber and help make it flexable and seal
> better when it soaks into
> the ruber.
>
> I did this to all my exterior rubber. You can
> see the pop top gasket that
> had this treatment two years earlier in my phto
> of pop top screws tha tI
> sell.
>
>
> Foam rubber seals  ,like in the doors, will
> swell up a tad,but this is
> ok.It make s for a tighter door closing.Looks
> almost new again.
>
> http://stores.ebay.com/werksforwagens
>




____________________________________________________________________________________
Get your own web address.
Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL