I dunno who else out there has done this but I decided to try and replace the vertical weatherstrip on the quarter window on my vert. The old weatherstrip had split and there was no longer a seal between the dir window and the quarter window.
The part is cheap enough, there is also a youtube video from our buddies at CJPonyParts about replacing this. No tools need, supposedly! You'll be back on the road in 1/2 an hour.. Yeh right! If you watch the video (just do a youtube search for mustang quarter window weatherstrip) you'll see some clues as to the PITA factor. But of course they want to sell product so they don't let you see how hard it really is.
Getting the old weatherstrip off was hard enough. You have to use pliers to rip out the old weather strip, which is rubber with a thin metal core, and sits in a groove attached to the quarter window. It takes a twisting motion and comes off in small chunks..
And then you need to push the new weatherstrip into the groove, which is a tight fit. I lubed it up with WD40 as suggested in the video, but only managed to get it "almost" in, at the expense of ripping the skin off my fingers, and getting several blisters. At the moment, I cant get it all the way in, and I'm not sure I can get it out again either without having to go through the process described above, which would destroy it.
Here's a picture of as far as I've gotten it after about 2 hours of messing with it, and beating the crap out of my hands by trying to inch it down a bit at a time. Eventually I just had to give up for now. At the moment my hands are beat up so I'm not sure how to go forward from here? It's such a straight forward relatively little thing to try and fix.. But it's turned out to be a real pain!
If anyone has any clever ideas, let me know.
The part is cheap enough, there is also a youtube video from our buddies at CJPonyParts about replacing this. No tools need, supposedly! You'll be back on the road in 1/2 an hour.. Yeh right! If you watch the video (just do a youtube search for mustang quarter window weatherstrip) you'll see some clues as to the PITA factor. But of course they want to sell product so they don't let you see how hard it really is.
Getting the old weatherstrip off was hard enough. You have to use pliers to rip out the old weather strip, which is rubber with a thin metal core, and sits in a groove attached to the quarter window. It takes a twisting motion and comes off in small chunks..
And then you need to push the new weatherstrip into the groove, which is a tight fit. I lubed it up with WD40 as suggested in the video, but only managed to get it "almost" in, at the expense of ripping the skin off my fingers, and getting several blisters. At the moment, I cant get it all the way in, and I'm not sure I can get it out again either without having to go through the process described above, which would destroy it.
Here's a picture of as far as I've gotten it after about 2 hours of messing with it, and beating the crap out of my hands by trying to inch it down a bit at a time. Eventually I just had to give up for now. At the moment my hands are beat up so I'm not sure how to go forward from here? It's such a straight forward relatively little thing to try and fix.. But it's turned out to be a real pain!
If anyone has any clever ideas, let me know.