Window/door seals

Today I think I may have incured a new challange. I bought the belt weather seals and glass run seals. Well the belt weather seals went in fine, so I pulled the glass run seal out of the passenger door, not expecting it to be 10 feet long. Man oh man. Now I need to install the new seal and wonder, is there a short cut to adding this seal or do I need to pull the door panel and fish it around the inner door?
Thanks,
Ken

 

I pulled my glass and everything out when I did mine. Cleaned everything and applied grease to the mechanics of it all. Great time to get the little things back into correct working order.
Dan

 

I asked for short cuts, Not the correct way.
Ken
Awh crap. After pulling the seal, I knew this is bad.....

 

Yeah, would be nice for a short cut on this job. Maybe someone else has a tip to make it quicker?
Dan

 

I watched Earl do it on Terry's '77. If I remember right, he used soapy water to help slip it down in there. May send a PM to Earl Branham and ask him about it.

The ones that run along the bottom of the window have little clips and just "snap" in.

 

i think Terrys door panels were off when Earl put the run in...frank...

 

you want to do this right,or you might get a rattle latter on.

 

Thats funny.

But it always seems one never has time to do it right the first time, but always finds the time to do it correctly the second time.

 

Yep, he worked it in from the top and then pulled it down from the bottom.

I also agree with Dennis. If you aren't going to do it right, you might as well not do it.

 

Don't know...

...of any shortcuts. Better pull the door panel.

 

Ken; Jamie is correct, I used some soapy water, and removed the door panels. Slip the weatherstrip in the channel on the rear of the door, and push it all the way down, or about 4" past the end of the channel. Push the weather strip up into the channel around the frame of the door, and do the same for the front channel of the door. Be carefull of the mirror cable if you have sport mirrors. Use the soapy water on the weatherstrip, and it should slide in without too much of a problem. Trim the weather strip to about 4" past the channel. Roll the window up tight to seat the weather strip, and leave it up till the soapy water dries up, and you are done. Good luck!

Earl

p.s. The internal channels are down on the vertical ends of the door, and are about 8-10" long.

 

after you get the door panel off there are two (2) pins that hold the glass in. remove them, slide the glass out and the whole job is a piece of cake...

 

Well, here is the finally. I pulled the door panel and removed the window, it took 1 hour to complete the job. I did both doors in 2 hours.
For my next challenge......
Thanks for the help,
Ken

 

A lot easier than it sounds, right?

 

No, once you pull the interior door panels, and remove beltline weather strips, roll up the window enough to see the silver slide bar attached to the window. In my case there are 2 blue plastic fasteners attached through the slide bar and through the glass. One at each end. There is a pin pressed in the center of the plastic fasteners. Push out the center pins, hold the glass, and then the glass will be removeable. Then you have free rain to removing the window seal. Add the new seal through the channel, I started at the hinged side of the door, and worked my way around to the back of the door. The put the window back in, aligning the front edge in the new seal and then the back of the glass. Then aligned the blue fasteners to teh holes in the glass and then pressed the center pins back in. then added in the new beltline weatherstrips and you are done.
Ken