Rear door rubbers

[FC-V8]

Hi all
         I am currently fitting the door rubbers to the wagon & was hoping someone could post a photo of the position of the rubbers as they sit over the rear door hinges.

Cheers
Glenn

[Ed]

Thanks for posting this Glenn, I was having the same crisis on the weekend.

The rubbers I got from Harrisons have 2 notches cut out and the shape of the rubber is different at these two points as well.

I cant make head or tail of front or rear rubber fitment.  

help!

Cheers

Ed

[FC-V8]

Ed
        The section with the 2 notches cut out sit at the bottom of the door opening between the body & the scuff plates. Craig A has been helping me out with info on the best way to fit them up.

[smithy]

hi glen and ed, if the notches are the ones i am thinking about they sit on the bottom edge of the door frame to compensate for the tight angle change. one just below the dog leg section where it meets up with the sill section and the other on the door frame leading edge. this was how the rubbers from rare spares sat. the same set-up applies for the front.  the rubbers actually go over the top of the door hinges so when i was glueing mine into place i left these 2 sections loose till after the doors were fitted. the rare spares rubbers had the same contour / thickness around the whole rubber which forced them to sit too high over the hinges, to rectify this i trimmed a notch where they went over the hinges. this seemed to work, well the door will close now.
hope this makes some sense.
dean

[Ed]

Ok this is starting to make sense!  

did u guys cut the seal to go round the tight 90° corners at the tops of the doors etc? or is this a no-no?

cutting the seal seems to make sense to get less height as it passes over the hinges.. I had sat and thought about this for a while too.


Cheers

Ed

[smithy]

 this was the unnerving part  :-/
you will have to cut the rubber at the 90 degree bend, i glued mine into place as close as i could then made a 45 degree cut. measure three times cut once, just make sure the blade is verrrrry sharp, then glue sections together.  

that first cut is always the hardest  :-/
dean

[Fast_Eddie]

The repro ones have to be cut, trimmed and folded all around the opening.

Unfortunatley they have very little resembelence to the factory rubbers.

I'm thinking of using a square profile from Clarks on the B pillar and perhaps right around to the sill.

I saw a car at the Nationals that had it done this way. The owner seemed to know his way around an FC.



Edward

[julius]

Just another peice of advice is to open up or square channel the rubber goes into, this will help the rubber to compress when the door is being closed if you don't the compression hole will already be compressed so then your going to have to slam your door closed.

On my modified I can close all the doors with ease and their totally bear.

Julius