Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 21:13:23 -0700
Reply-To: Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Replaced driver's side front window seals. Report...
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When you did the vent seals how did you get the rubber around the upper pivot?
I have done this job numerous times, I always pull the vent assembly out if the door and do the build on the bench.
I just did this for a guy at Syncrofest and could not get the window to seat in the rubber either. I was able to get it closed but the top of the glass is hitting the frame.
My feeling is that the seals although marked as German OE are actually a knock off. This is the first time I have them not seat.
My customer is saying that they now wind whistle more than they did before, I am at the point now ,where I have picked up a nice set from a 91 and am going to slip those in to keep him happy. Don't read this wrong he's not being unreasonable , but he'd like to not have the noise and I do not blame him.
So to answer a question not asked, to remove the vent assembly you have to remove the door glass after removing the inner and outer scrapers and upper run channel. There is a small Phillips at the top and a 10mm headed bolt at the top, I also remove the 2 first clips the the scraper locks into to make the vent easier to remove.
Stacy
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> On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I recently went through doing part of that door window reseal job.
> If I may add....
>
> Rig up your work light on a stand. Trust me.
> Find a way to secure the door from moving.
> No, you can't put the door glass back in even if only one felt strip is in place
> Yes the felt seals can be installed after glass is in place
> A pic tool might help open up the clips for the felt seal to seat. That said,
> they tended to line up ok.
> I used 3M trim adhesive to cover up a few "sins"
> (window upper seal a hair short, secure little flaps on other seals
> that overlap)
> Don't bother trying to leave any of the fancy chrome trim in place.
> I didn't do the wing window seals so kept that trim IIRC, but the chrome
> at felt strip area? No. Delete it. I think vendors like van-cafe speak of this.
> In hindsight, I would've done only the outer felt seals; the inners were ok.
> While you're in there, lube up the latch parts and crank cable and stuff.
>
>> On 6/7/15, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> After testing my injectors, I spent most of the rest of the day
>> replacing my driver's door window seals, including the wind-wing, with
>> the non-chrome replacements. Boy, what a royal pain in the butt this
>> was! I'll include some useful tips in a minute, but first, after I got
>> everything back together, the wind wing wouldn't fit. It was as if the
>> top of the window was rotate clockwise, from the outside, by about 3/8
>> of an inch. Needless to say, it won't close. I could use some
>> help/ideas on this one.
>
> --
> Neil n
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