So after 4 years of happy motoring and a dry footwell, I have been planning to renew the job I did 4 years ago.
Peeled off the old weather strip cleaned up with white spirits retreated the pesky rust hole with vactan though there wasn't any real need to as it hadn't got any worse.
Made a template with tracing paper checked it fitted properly few adjustments and then cut the weather strip.
Put on this morning and hey presto another4 years of trouble free motoring !
sternal wrote:So after 4 years of happy motoring and a dry footwell, I have been planning to renew the job I did 4 years ago.
Peeled off the old weather strip cleaned up with white spirits retreated the pesky rust hole with vactan though there wasn't any real need to as it hadn't got any worse.
Made a template with tracing paper checked it fitted properly few adjustments and then cut the weather strip.
Put on this morning and hey presto another4 years of trouble free motoring !
And you get the South African look for free !
Hi,
What weather strip did you use?
Is this a purpose made part for our vans? - obviously LHD and RHD will bee different?
Did you stick it under the windscreen rubber? What did you use to stick it down with?
Thanks
7.5cm width is perfect, last time I used 10cm width and had to cut it down which looked messy.
It started off as a quick fix but 4 years later still going strong, only reason I redid it was to see what was going on underneath which was zero and to make it neater.
Changing that panel or paying someone isn't cheap.
Thanks.
I have a couple of small holes below the screen that are too close to the rubber to weld without taking the screen out.
I've tried fibreglassing it but I still have puddles in the footwells.
I'll do it properly eventually but not before this summer so your solution sounds great.
'86 1.9 DG, 4 spd, tintop, camper conversion.
Split case club member.
I always remember something i think Kev the Rev said along the lines of " bodging is a disease and it's contagious" Still going to try this as well though Had a bit of a leak when it really pissed it down but i seemed to have stopped it with the Creeping Crack stuff.
David
It may stop the water ingress in some cases but in my experience the vast majority get water ingress via the top lip of the rubber where it runs down the A pillars under the rubber until it gets to the bottom, accumulates and festers. Capillary action.
Personally, I'd remove screen and get a welder to repair lip on site and then refit screen with a new seal with the addition of a thin bead of roofing mastic under the lip, all the way around. Use a proper seal, not a JK 'thyroid look' copy. For the exra £10 or so, its not worth scrimping. It will fit better too.
Purists will say the mastic should not be needed and in part thats true, at least not for the first 10 years, but who wants to revisit that job?
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It may stop the water ingress in some cases but in my experience the vast majority get water ingress via the top lip of the rubber where it runs down the A pillars under the rubber until it gets to the bottom, accumulates and festers. Capillary action
I guess I've been lucky as its kept water tight from the bottom. In an ideal world id love to have it welded, living in the big smoke puts a stop on mobile welders and specially ones that know what they're doing. The bodyshop guy that specialises in classics round here is reasonable but every time I've asked him in the past he just wants to fit a new panel...all i have is 2 small holes !
Id happy travel a few hours one weekend to have it sorted out - any recommendations ?
I'd be welding mine sooner rather than later if I had a garage I could leave the van in between welding/painting and getting the autoglass man to fit the seal.
Unfortunately my mate's garage is 45 miles away and he needs to get vehicles in and out so I can't leave it there and I'd have more than just puddles in the footwell if I left it outside without the screen in. If we get a decent spell of weather in the summer I might do it then but in the mean time the flashband will hopefully do the trick.
The joys of working in the driveway.
Last edited by bigbadbob76 on 20 Mar 2017, 12:19, edited 1 time in total.
'86 1.9 DG, 4 spd, tintop, camper conversion.
Split case club member.
Still going to try this as well though 
