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Re: - yipes!
Posted by mike (more from mike) on Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:13:31
In Reply to: Re: Door Window Scratches - my recent experiences - yipes!, RickG, Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:30:13
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As far as DIY, it's not bad if you have the patience for trial & error to get the angles just right. Actually kinda fun, once its clear what you need to do (ain't that always the way?).
Inner door moldings (& outer): - I pry them off with a wide blade screw driver w/ blade wrapped in elec. tape & a piece of thin (old credit card?) plastic under it so's not to damage paint. My mechanic uses a shaped plastic prybar.
New weather strips are prob. a good idea. Make sure you have the new clips seated properly (ala townsend bulletin ref.)
Personally, I pulled by hand the doorskin away as much as pos. before actually buckling doormetal, giving a nice uniform clearance (maybe 2 mm more than before). The glass needs to be out to do this. Then you can re-angle the molding lip in a bit, by fingers if the glass is still out, or (like I ended up doing) after glass is in & down with wide-lip visegrips (carefully - so's to not crack the glass). This angle's the tricky part - because what you want to do is angle away the molding (& clip body) from the glass as the window goes down, leaving enough clearance around the clip area (few mm's) to clear grit away as the window's cranked down. At the same time, the top of the rubber strip has to angle in enough to mate with the glass just at the very top of the strip, creating as little trapping area for grit as possible.) There IS an optimum angle, but you need to t&e it.
A clipless (slide in weatherstrip) molding would've been the ticket. I'm really disappointed they didn't redesign that stupid molding in 1980.
Good luck.
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