Evening,
The only way one can replace the seals around the doors is to actually remove the door, otherwise you can't get to the front seal. On C.D. it looks like some one has had the doors off before but I see no evidence of damage other than the sheeting behind the door card. The door card sheeting caught me by surprise as it looks like a piece of thin molded plastic unlike the sheet of heavy drop 'cloth' type material I've seen on the other cars I've worked on. Sadly the plastic is glued to the door with contact cement and damaged which makes it very hard to remove.
Jennifer had a bag of seals and they appear to be of good quality, to install them I clean the channel out with a wire brush then a mild solvent and after wiping the release agent off the seals stuck them on with 3M Black Weather Strip Adhesive.
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| Drivers side with the door removed |
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| The door resting on a cushion |
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| Clamping the weather stripping in place |
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| The door has been reinstalled with the mounting screws going back into the same holes, means that it's in the same spot as before. The molded black plastic door liner, learn something new every time as I didn't realize Jaguar did this. |
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| The finished door with new window waste seals and new door seals. |
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| The drivers side door took most of the day but I did get started on the passenger side this afternoon, again the molded plastic panel intended to prevent water damage to the door card. One thing I did find and don't understand is that one of the bottom door drains on either side has been closed (mashed), can't conceive the reason for this as the doors need all the drainage they can get. |
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| Outer waist seal attached at the top of the door, the glue that was used to glue the panel on is apparent, the yellowish stuff on the door. We received our 'care' package from SNG today-pretty speedy as I placed the order on Tuesday! Will finish the passenger door on Monday and then move on to preping the firewall in anticipation of installing the new master cylinders and so forth. That's all folks! Cheers, Lynn 5.5 hrs |
I've never seen that plastic inside the door either. Must have been someone's attempt to put something different in there. Obviously, it didn't hold up.
ReplyDeleteI think it was very possibly OEM Drew, it was almost vacuum formed to the door openings and the recess behind the door handle. I've never seen any thing like it before though.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Lynn