

| Subject: | Re: Body Rubber |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Apr 1996 20:31:50 -0400 |
Thomsaid The West Coast Metric windsheild seals look like crap, and they leak. There are all kind of extranneous marks on them, not a very clean mold. The Wolfsburg West ones looked a lot nicer. ---- I have used the WW seals and the windsheilds don't leak. I found some seals at a flea market that were even better, though, but their origion was lost. I have heard bad things about WCM rubber, too. (Worst Coast Metric) The seals for the doors are WAY too stiff. The seals on my 42 year bus are much more pliable than these things were out of the box. Makes the doors very hard to close. (WCM) ----- i use original door seal rubber. I grab it out of every junk bus i can. If you look at the repro stuff, it is made completely differently than the VW stuff. It came as one kind of rubber wrapped around a different core, yet the repro is all one stuff. And costs way too much. pop out window scrapers are another sore point. I'm finding NOS stuff to put on my resto project. I have repro seals on the 66 standard, and they are very difficult to open and close. But the bus is pretty airand watertight. my local vw shop gets very nice engine compartment to motor seals for only ~$9 the knee bangers reproed are the wrong colour. picky picky, aren't I :)
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