Thread: Weatherstripping

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Originally Posted by shine

weather stripping is also a rain gutter . if you mount it wing down rain will leak into car. wing up it will drain away. measure the step that it goes in. some cars simply have no room for it. the early tri5 chevy trucks are that way. the doors dont fit flush because of it.

Shine, that makes perfect sense and is exactly the reply I needed. Thanks much!! Just curious, do you put seal across the bottom, too? I'm thinking I need to as I'm finding road dust on the bottom of my door panels (da*%#~d dirt road!!!).

Originally Posted by 34_40

Roger, I purchased a Soff Seal kit made specific for Gibbon bodies. The door weatherstrip they offered is simply a rectangular piece that's something like 3/8" wide by 1/4" thick if I remember right. I haven't used it! I did use across the bottom of the doors the rubber strip from Mac's that duplicates the originals as well as the windlace around the doors of course. My trunk lid sounds like yours and the kit used a "channel" that I "glued" in place, it slipped right over the lip on the body side, but now that I'm thinking about it.. maybe it could've gone on the trunk lid side??? I'll have to look. This reminds me that I still need to add a drain to that trunk lip area to prevent flooding.

Mike,
Not sure what your trunk lip area looks like on the Gibbon body, but on mine it forms a "trough" across the back that is about an inch wide & an inch deep, rounded a the bottom - can hold a LOT of water, but it's six or seven inches above the trunk floor, which extends back another three or four inches. Duane at N&N passed on a tip that I thought was pretty slick so I used it. I bought a section of straight 5/16" (I think??) brake about three feet long, cut it in the middle and took the fittings off leaving two pieces with flares on one end. Using a long skinny drill bit I drilled through the bottom of the trough, continuing straight down through the bottom of the trunk floor. Enlarge each hole to 5/16" for a snug fit, chamfer the holes in the trough using a countersink bit or a large drill bit, drop in the tubing, mark the length & cut flush with the body on the bottom outside. A dab of silicone in the countersunk hole hold them tight, and the trough drains to daylight. They work slick!!