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My doors are difficult to close when the hood is up. I can see the tops of the door frames being pushed out by the rubber seals on the hood. The rubbers feel quite hard, are there softer ones available and who supplies them?
I bought new ones at National Day from Robsport, as I was taking the Stag away to Jerseyfor a week, and would get extreme grief if SWMBO got dripped upon.
I am afraid this is an ongoing problem with all the seals at present. Original seals were a spongey rubber. Current ones are a monofilament type. It is the same with hard top front/rear seals. I also bought a new boot lid seal. This is a spongey type rubber, but the cross-section is too large making itharder to shut the boot.
Why they cannot get elemetary things like this right defeats me :X. Unfortunately all the suppliers seem to get their stock from the same source. Unless anyone knows different.
Dave
Dave
1974 Mk2, ZF Auto, 3.45 Diff, Datsun Driveshafts. Stag owner/maintainer since 1989.
it is worth checking out whether Bill at rarebits4classics ( www.rarebits4classics.co.uk ) has anything in his extrusions range that may do the job - there is a PDF catalogue with profile pictures etc. accessible from the left-hand pane. It also denotes which profiles are sponge.
The other place worth checking is Woolies (www.woolies-trim.co.uk ) they also have a good extrusions range.
My doors are difficult to close when the hood is up. I can see the tops of the door frames being pushed out by the rubber seals on the hood. The rubbers feel quite hard, are there softer ones available and who supplies them?
John.
John
I have the same problem although only with drivers side, have you tried adjusting the fixing point for the hood(ie raising the hood slightly) just behind the door b post, this was suggested to me by the guy doing the soft top demo at national day last year. It helped mine a little, remember you can also adjust the height of the polished glass surround on the doors aswell.
Forgot to mention - I cured the driver's side by adjusting the height of the chrome window surround but the passenger's side would not go low enough. SWMBO has to close the door quite hard when the hood is up. If you remove the dor trim panel there are two bolts whichfit inelongated holes. Slacken these off and the window frame moves.
One way to reduce the problem is to locally thin the rubber seals with either a sharp knife or carpenters hand plane (Spoke Shave). They can then be sprayed with Silicon spray and this allows the seals to compress and slide up the window frame.
I have used them several times over the last 30 years and they have been trading in mouldings forever.
They have a downloadable list showing all the sections of rubber and foam they can supply. The last section I got from them was an exact match for a prewar Daimler windscreen rubber moulding. - Alan
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