New Window Seals R/R 450SL
ANy tricks to get these on, I am replacing all the side window seals on the hard top and soft top. Took the old ones off and they just seem to run in a channel of sorts. Is a special tool needed?
Also the ones I took off on the ragtop were 2 part, split at the hinge .The new one is one part and all the parts catalogs show one piece ,so what gives here? Anyone been there done that , that cares to share expertise:book: |
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Graham |
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The only real trick is to make sure the seals line up at the body (at the rear of the window) and where the A pillar and hard/soft top meet. If you make them too long it distorts the seal and you get wind noise. If you make them too short there's a gap and you get wind noise. They have to be just right. There's a lot of stretch in those seals, so it's perfectly easy to make them too short or too long. |
just as an addition to ScottinSoCal the top seal for the soft top is one piece and once it is installed you just push a razor through the rubber at the hinge otherwise it will pull out everytime you fold the roof.
also remember the very soft rubber (more like sorbo rubber) seal that goes between the soft top and the top of the folding hinge. this one is glued onto the roof and then you use the 1/8th inch wire that runs from the screw in the front of the softop to the sticky out bit of hinge just behind your head to tension it. then everytime the roof is locked down and tensioned the wire pulls tight and pulls the top sorbo ruber down onto the top of the hinged section. gets rid of any remaining wind noise cheers Barri |
Barri
"softop to the sticky out bit of hinge just behind your head to tension it." not quite following you there My soft top locks down in the back using the window crank affair behind the drivers seat, is there something in addtion to this that perhaps I am missing? |
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