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Leaking high top window (non opening). Have new seal and beading. Any advice on re-installing glass technique welcomed please?
Regards
Stuart

Hi,
What sort of seals have you got?
Are they not similar to the main window seals?

Yes the same-ish. Just after guidance. New seal in high top first or around glass? From inside or outside. Tips to make procedure a doddle kind of thing.

Hi,
Rubber into bodywork then glass in at bottom of rubber and then feed/push/work lip of rubber over the glass edge using a plastic spatula.
Seals Direct do a guide as do various You Tube clips. Type in rubber mounted vehicle windows or Claytonite Rubber trim.

Cheers Ray,
Will check video
Regards
Stuart

I replaced my rubber seals on my leisuredrive hitop a few years ago, it turned out much harder than doing the job on the actual van body , because
A. The hitop is thicker than the van body
B. The shape of the window in mine comes to quite sharp point and it makes it more awkward .

Use lots of silicon lubrication and you will need a operative inside unless you are stretch Armstrong shaped

The Seals Direct tool makes it much easier. I have just done four windows in our Devon (converted from a van).

Suggestions:

1 Don't cover everything with silicon before you start. The seal gets a life of its own and wriggles around, the resulting mess takes an age to clean up. If you think you need to use a sealant between van and seal do it once the thing is in place.

2. Use just a little washing up liquid as a lubricant

3. Don't let the slippery glass slip through your fingers.

4. Do not cut off any excess until the seal or filler strip has settled. Push it to and fro a bit first. You might have stretched it and the two ends can pull back from each other as they 'settle' leaving a gap.

4. Windows in vans. I went to great lengths to make sure that I didn't cut myself on frilly edges left by rust only to make a mess of a finger on the razor sharp inside moulding of the sliding door. Couldn't understand where all the red stuff had come from on my white van...had I spilt some red oxide????

Thanks to all for your advice.
Leisuredrive windows with pointy end facing forward.
BTW l thought it would be same seal dimensiongaps as bodywork? So hightop glass to fibreglass has a wider gap in the seal.
Regards
Stuart

The fibreglass is thicker than the metal surrounding the downstairs windows
My van is a Caravelle GL , so different seals , but I replaced the seals in some of the windows in one of our other campers and it was definitely thinner than the hitop window surrounds

Mocki wrote:The fibreglass is thicker than the metal surrounding the downstairs windows
My van is a Caravelle GL , so different seals , but I replaced the seals in some of the windows in one of our other campers and it was definitely thinner than the hitop window surrounds

Ive got some of this in loft. Should do the trick