Help me help you Seal fitment, Started a new thread to deconstruct this Options

[Mikey914]

This was brought us as an issue and I'm really trying to figure this out. Any ideas of why the window would look lower and have a gap here.


Here were my thoughts -

I keep looking at this and something doesn't look right. Given that the blocks are identical to the factory ones in shape and durometer, what would the solution be here?

There appears to be a 1/2" section of rubber not fully seated, Is it holding it out?

Could the amount of butyl behind the "chrome" be holding it down slightly? I don't think that would be the whole story.

The triangle window looks like the top is seated deeper than the cap. Almost like if the top of the triangle window was shimmed out more it would push the bottom of the cap out more to "close the gap". This appears to be where the failure is - at least in my eyes. I've seen many of the caps worn and look slightly deformed from the top of the glass pushing it out, but not here. It looks like it's barely engaged.

Why it would sit lower is beyond me. The initial complaint was it was too tight, which would hold it up.


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[Mikey914]

Here is my 72 that I put my seals on. I'm happy with the alignment.

[bbrock]

Here is my 72 that I put my seals on. I'm happy with the alignment.

I could be wrong, but I think I see daylight through that seal.

[Mikey914]

Here is my 72 that I put my seals on. I'm happy with the alignment.

I could be wrong, but I think I see daylight through that seal.

It's not, you see the back part of the seal that the top is resting against. However, these are all new seals, the others are factory. I didn't even have to adjust a thing when I put the new ones on. I simply marked where everything was at disassembled and reassembled. I may have just got lucky, as I do believe that there is enough adjustment to get myself in trouble here.

I do think this is one of those cases where they did design it like the V2 rocket.

[Superhawk996]

Here is my 72 that I put my seals on. I'm happy with the alignment.

I could be wrong, but I think I see daylight through that seal.

It's not, you see the back part of the seal that the top is resting against. However, these are all new seals, the others are factory. I didn't even have to adjust a thing when I put the new ones on. I simply marked where everything was at disassembled and reassembled. I may have just got lucky, as I do believe that there is enough adjustment to get myself in trouble here.

I do think this is one of those cases where they did design it like the V2 rocket.

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Not trying to be a jackass but it doesn't seem to me that the 1st image is fit properly?

When I fit my targa seal, it seems to me that the aluminum channel ought to be all the way forward in the narrow groove so that is where I put it. Likewise, I personally would not accept the gapping between the header and the targa seal.

Not sure if this 1st picture is the finished result of the fitting, but I can't see myself accepting that.