Ray,
Your "draught excluders" sound like the TR6 style one-piece units. Yes,
they go all the way up the windshield frame to the top trim piece. Cut
them 1/2" or 1" long and force the extra back along the track, they
shrink over time. I have a TR4, and thought the 4A was the same, with
separate rubber door seals fitted to "tracks" welded to the sill, the
A-post, the B-post and the windshield frame. The "fuzzy" goes next to
this capping the lip you are using. I think the TR6 style should work
fine.
I am curious, tho, my car did not originally have "fuzzies", as they've
become known. It had vinyl/plastic covering that lip. Anyone else
(Malcolm said yes a while back, I think)
Alan Myers
San Jose, Calif.
'62 TR4 CT17602L
r-james@tamu.edu wrote:
>
> I am installing "draught excluders", or door seals from Moss on my TR-4A;
> they consist of a neoprene extrusion which fits snugly over the lip of
> the door opening (this portion of the seal is covered with a velvety
> fabric) plus a soft neoprene "bulb" section that the closed door
> seals against. (Apparently the original seals fit instead into a
> channel welded to the door opening--I now wish I had ground those
> channels off for a cleaner door opening.)
>
> My question: does this seal continue up the windscreen frame, for the
> side window to seal against? Presently, the windscreen is off my car,
> but I'm about ready to put it back on, and I can't tell whether
> the seal continues or should be cut off at the top of the door
> (level with the padded dash top.)
>
> My TR-4A project is only days away from getting on the road--I put
> the last two coats of paint on Saturday, and it really looks nice
> (for an amateur paint job)!
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
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> Ray W. James, P.E., Ph.D.
> Civil Engineering Department
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843
> Phone (409)845-7436; Fax (409)845-3410
> E-mail: r-james@tamu.edu
> Date: 3/8/99 Time: 4:32:41 PM
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