Brent’s 66 SO42 Body resto!

[Jb]

#43460

Yber wrote:

I just mailed a sample piece of the safari window weatherstrip I used. Should show up at KCW on Wednesday. I seem to remember that it was from the hatchback on a Saab.

 

lets see a pic of this seal….

[Yber]

#43462

No problem, Franz.

Would you mind posting a pic of it?

[Pat K]

#43544

We will build it if it comes.

[dirtylawnchair]

#43552

Yber wrote:

I just mailed a sample piece of the safari window weatherstrip I used. Should show up at KCW on Wednesday. I seem to remember that it was from the hatchback on a Saab.

 

Do you have a link on where to buy?  My safari seals are toast.

[Yber]

#43555

Sorry.

I bought it a few years back when someone recommended it to me – and I can’t remember where I got it.

You might try printing off the pic and trying the parts dept at a Saab dealership…

Good luck.

[Franz]

#43598

Wolfgang international sell similar a seal for their aftermarket safari window kit.

[Yber]

#43688

Hey Franz – I’m assembling the front doors on my bus and came across a couple of questions.

I’ve looked and looked and don’t see a slit in the WW weatherstrip for the vent wing that the upper tab (that gets the rivet) to go through.  I don’t want to go cutting on it until I’m sure – do I need to make an opening for the tab myself or am I missing something?

Also – what tool do you use to crimp the upper rivet that serves as the pivot?  Do you know where I can get one?

Thanks, man!

[Franz]

#43697

Yeah you have to cut the slit. sometimes there is a outline of where it should be.

I use an air hammer and the corner of a steel work bench to smash the rivets. Center punch, then flat.

The manual show a vicegrip like tool. I have some that I modified.

[John Jones]

#43720

Door window frame assembly sucks…

Been a wild ride, but it got me here 😎

[Yber]

#43744

Franz – Sean at WW sent a pic of vice grip with a ball bearing on the bottom jaw.  Clever.  Sounds like your modified vice grip might be the same.

Any advice about how to deal with the rivets that hold the latch to the vent wing frame?

Thanks, man!

[Yber]

#43745

Right on John – window frame assembly is a bitch.

[Yber]

#43750

Any tips on how to get the vent wing glass and seal in the goddamn frame??

The manual shows a special jig to push it in.  How do you guys manage it??

[Franz]

#43756

Wrap the rubber around the glass, then lube with silicone spray or wd40. Set frame on something that won’t scratch it. Then use a big dead-blow hammer on the glass edge to drive it into the frame…Its a rocking motion you have to start the corner nearest the vent wing latch first.

Don’t worry the tempered glass is strong.

[Pete]

#43759

Yber wrote:

Any tips on how to get the vent wing glass and seal in the goddamn frame??

Shipping glass and frames to KCW is another way. 🙂

[Yber]

#43760

Thanks, Franz!  You da man!

How about the rivets that hold the latch to the vent wing frame?  Same technique as with the pivot rivet?

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