Hi I'm Danny Agosta with Steele Rubber Products. Today we're going to be working on this 1969 El
Camino. We're going to be replacing the door weather strip on the passenger door
as well as the door bumpers. You won't need many tools for this one just something to
tuck the rubber in- a tuck tool or something not sharp but that you can
place the rubber into the channel and that's gonna be it. So we'll show you how to do it right here.
So to remove this piece the first thing you have to do is pull the top out of the channel. This
is just placed in with pressure so as you can see it easily just removes by pulling it out
and this just pulls out all the way around the door across the bottom.
And we'll go back and remove any of these clips that stayed in the door.
Now that we've got our door weather stripping off one of the most important things to do
with weatherstripping is to check out your surface see if it needs prep. A lot of times
you'll run into old adhesive and you'll have to clean that off, old rubber. We recommend a 3M
Adhesive Remover and that's a spray on or a wipe on and it just eats that stuff up
and then you can scrape it off. We recommend our scraper tool it's plastic it won't gouge
the paint but this tool comes in handy for a lot of things. For this particular one you can see
there's not really any adhesive just old primer. So we're just going to clean it up make sure
there's no dust or debris in the channels and that our surface is ready for the new rubber.
One thing you want to double check is the orientation of the weather stripping.
This weather stripping angles towards the vehicle not away from the vehicle so you
want to check out your original and make sure that you're putting the rubber on the exact same way.
This particular piece you would know because once you get to the clips the clips won't line up.
And all I'm doing is tucking that side in and then working the rubber a little bit
to make sure that piece that's in the channel sits exactly where it needs to.
We'll continue this all the way down the door until we get to the clips.
All right so now we're at the clips we'll go ahead and start placing these
sometimes these can be a little bit of a bugger.
Because you're trying to push on something that has a really soft top but if you need
to and the clips aren't going in which these are going in pretty good right now you can get
something- piece of wood or this tuck tool to press on top replace the pin.
And we'll just continue to follow these
along.
All right so we just finished up our door weatherstrip. As you can see
we've got it tucked in all the way around in the channel. We've got all of our clips in all across
the bottom in the front and one thing to note is if your weatherstripping has clips and you
want to use glue you can go ahead and do that. If you're going to use glue on a door weatherstrip
just try to make sure you don't slam the door right afterwards. That glue is not cured yet.
Give it some time to cure. If you're not in a garage you know at least give it a couple
hours where you can pick a nice day to do it. You want to make sure that glue is set before you put
any kind of shear force on the rubber. For this since it's just clips in a channel we're good
to go ahead and close the door but before we do that we're going to install our door bumpers.
So for these we're going to replace it with the new bumper. These are held in
with these two little carrots so we'll just pull it out. Sometimes the carrots will come with it
and sometimes it won't so you can try to extract this but if you want you can just push it into the
door. And for this particular project that's all we're going to do. So to install this
like I said the carrots just go into those holes you may need some soapy water to get it in but
you can also use a tool that's not sharp. This is a rounded allen wrench
and it goes into these holes and you can press the carrot that way. Again make sure it's not
sharp so you don't press through. But we will go ahead and install this. Just line up the holes
and use that tool to press it in kind of wiggle it around make sure the carrots are in there fully.
And you can check to the side and see that the carrots are in there
and that's it. All right we've got our door all finished up we've got our new door weather
stripping on, the door bumpers- if you want to find the door weatherstripping for your vehicle
you can go on our website search by year make model and body style and everything we have
for your vehicle will show up. To see more of our videos check out our YouTube channel
and we have a whole bunch of how to's on there. For now we'll see you next time.