Re: [DML] Replacing Door/Roof Seals

[Christian Williams <delorean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The NCDMC did this job with 2 of our cars a couple summers ago - along
with Don and Dan from DMC Garden Grove. We covered the tortion bars with
rags and used a dremel with a little cutting disc to take off the head of
the rivets. Once the heads were off, the weatherstripping could be removed
- which exposed the shafts of the rivets. These were again dremeled until
the inside ends fell out of the way to the inside of the door skin. Dan
brought some ground-down sheet metal screws to attach the new seals. In
another 20 years, I'll just need to unscrew the trim - not go through the
dremeling again.

http://www.ncdmc.org/images_meets/tech1/Dan%20replacing%20Christian's%20weather%20strip.JPG

-Christian


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Babb wrote:

> Hey gang,
>
> I am looking at replacing the weather seals that mount to the uppermost
> part of the door and form the seal between the door and the T-panel.
> These are held in with pop rivets.
>
> Questions:
>
> How the heck do you get these pop rivets out? I was looking at them with
> the drill, but the fear of nicking the torsion bar with a drill bit made
> me hold of on this route . .  .
>
> Once you get the rivets out and are ready to mount the new parts, do
> people usually just screw these in, or are pop-rivets the way to go . .
> .don't want to have to go through too much pain if I have to do this
> again in the future.
>
> Michael & 3472





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