Godholio

After getting a new windshield and spending a few weeks cleaning up my beat-to-hell molding pieces, I'm finally ready to start putting it all back on. The glass guy (who does work on all kinds of classics and several local NCRS members, so he knows what he's doing) did not reinstall the molding because all the lower clips were missing and the others were junk...the lower molding was basically held in place by the (shoddy) paint job the car got a decade ago or so.

Most of whatever was under the molding pieces has turned to dust over the years, so it's impossible to tell what most of it was. Strip caulk?

For the hinge pillar weatherstrip, I'm trying to figure out what adhesives to use...I've got some 3M08001 (the yellow goop) that I was thinking about using between the weatherstrip and the channel that screws onto the A-pillar molding, but below that, where the rubber screws into the body, what I scraped off looked like more strip caulk.

How close am I to getting it right? The AIM (pages F15 and F22) is a great help but the old GM numbers don't really do much for me, and unless I'm just not seeing it, the shop manual just says to do a job cleaning out the old stuff.

65 Pro Vette

I hope you did not install the windshield without putting in new clips! If you did you will be taking it back out, because you can not put them in with the glass in place. Before the trim goes on you put non hardening bedding compound in and then the molding. We are talking convertible? The hinge pillar W/S on a convertible you use 3M W/S adhesive under it. Cp's don't have this strip in 66.

Godholio

The windshield was installed with the understanding it would come back out. It was that or leave the car there for several weeks and pay a fine for late registration.

Edit: It is a convertible.

wombvette

For door window w/s. Apply strip caulk or seam sealer in the corner and under the lower section that is screwed down, then push in the buttons in the corner.

rich5962

Had a constant nagging water leak on both sides of this '67. It would drip down to the floor and difficult to trace.

I finally traced it to the vertical trim and the pillar w/s. There was minimal sealant under both the trim and the pillar w/s. I removed the trim and resealed it properly after removing the poorly applied silicone from a PO.

I used the NAPA Butyl black windshield sealant and applied it with full coverage to the back of the trim and w/s. I let it skin over for about 15 minutes then applied the trim and pillar w/s with attached screws and pushpin into the upper/forward spot as original. As you can see I also filled the gap between the vertical w/s and the pillar w/s. This is where most of the leak was occurring. I also resealed the door auxiliary w/s to help prevent water getting in.

Leaks fixed permanently after a water hose test, and reported not a drop during a major thunderstorm outside at the car's shipping port in Georgia and the car's roll-on/roll-off boat trip to Europe over 2 years ago. Still reported dry inside when I speak to the owner on occasion.

Rich

rich5962

Found a few more pics showing the items discussed.....Rich

Godholio

Excellent pictures! I scoured the forums looking for some like that, but everything focused on the ws on the actual door and thus cut off what I was looking for. That shows exactly what I was curious about (including the final fitment at the top).

rich5962

Thnx.....There may are some subtle differences between years, body types and attachment methods. i.e. which screw types, rivets, colors of rivets, pushpins, lengths of w/s etc. I recall my '63 coupe was attached differently from later coupes, and have seen various year convertibles with differences. As well as small w/s for the convertibles versus full length up the pillar w/s on the coupes. I don't have a '66 AIM but maybe it's the same as '67.

If JohnZ see this thread he may have some info of the nuances involved. I learned much from his posts about it.

Rich

Godholio

In 66 only the convertibles had this at all. Everything I'm seeing in the pictures looks identical, except I don't remember a push pin (I still have the lower pieces of the old rubber, so I can double-check...plus look for the holes). It looks like a straightforward install, I just wanted to double check on the adhesives.

JohnZ

There were many variations from year to year and even within a year on how the foot of that seal was attached to the lower pillar surface; just use black phillips screws and don't leave any open screw holes and you should be OK. As noted, '66 coupes didn't use it.

rich5962

Thanks John....

When i took that '67 apart, there was a broken pushpin end stuck in there on both sides. But as you can see in my pics above, the W/S didn't have a piece of rubber for it to go through and grab onto. A PO must have torn them off or the parts he used didn't have it on there.

Rich

Godholio

Ok, this should be the last question, since everything else is now in place.

On the piece pictured below, how's it oriented? The lip on one side sticks out about twice as far...is that the forward or rear side of the piece?

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/atta...g-p3060017.jpg

Also, I did find the pushpins (well, one of them) so yeah I missed that the first time around.

rich5962

Looking at my first 2 photos in post #5, it looks like the shorter rounded edge side is to the outside. You may find that the 4 holes are not equidistant and can possibly be mounted one way only. I don't have a actual car here so I can't verify that. It may show some detail in the AIM.

wombvette

Longest to the inside.

Godholio

That's what I needed, thanks.

eboch

My 63 roadster is missing this part ... the retainer that holds the part of the weatherstrip running up the side of the windsheild (between the door-window frame and the windsheild pillar. Anyone know whats its called?

https://redirect.viglink.com/?format...g-p3060017.jpg

65hihp

Windshield side post weatherstrip retainer.
https://www.zip-corvette.com/63-67-w...-retainer.html