I'm in the middle of swapping out the window seals on the doors of my '69S.
I've managed to replace the rubber seal that slides into the chrome trim along the top of the door and outside of the glass. No problem there.
The replacement seal for the top of the door inside the glass seams very different from what was there. It was a long rubber piece, "U" shaped in profile with felt on the window side and lightly pressure fit over the lip of the top of the door. The new piece has a much more complex profile with a flange that must either fit over or under the padding the fits along the top of the door. Is this the correct replacement, an updated improvement?
When I had a closer look at my new "Inner window to glass, w. prongs" seals they seam to be both for the driver/left side door. The ends are trimmed at an angle that echos the angles of the window frame. I asked Stoddard and they said that's just the way they are cut and I need to trim them to fit. I just looked at my catalogue (a really old one) and it does in fact list left and right versions of this seal. Hmm?
But what really puzzles me are the seals for inside the window channels, around the window frames. I didn't think I needed to replace them but on closer inspection decided to remove the one from the passenger side. It had all sorts of wire reinforcement. I assume this would be one of the "Hard" window channel seals. A friend had given me a set of window channel seals I think he had ordered from Performance Products. These have none of the wire reinforcement. I tried to install one of these, notching it to fit around inside the corners but the fit was really loose and sloppy. I figured this can't be right and started checking out Stoddard's and Mid America's catalogues again for the proper parts. I still don't get it. I finally called Stoddard and they explained that I need the hard channel stuff for the back and top sides of the frame and the soft channel for the front side. But their catalogue says the hard channel is for '65 to '68. Hmm?
Anybody out there with some experience with this? I know this is all incredibly unglamorous stuff but making my car water tight is the last thing standing between me and being able to finally drive my 911 with it's brand spankingly newly rebuilt MFI and throttle bodies. This will be the first time this thing has run properly since I've owned it!
I hope one of you might be able to clarify some of this for. Thanks for the help.
P.S. The weather trully sucks around here at the moment.