Rubber Glue Q.

Got any recommendations on gluing the windshield weather stripping in my 32 together?

I screwed up with the first weather strip I installed and cut the ends at a 90 degree angle to the piece of the frame it was installed in.
That left me with an almost square hole in each lower left corner.
It does ok running the highways in moderate rain, but water pours in through this opening at highway speeds in heavy rain.

I have some new weatherstrip - guessing it's neoprene based - and the plan is to either extend the flap out so the vertical and horizontal weatherstrip rubber overlaps or perhaps butts together.
The overlap is my first choice due to the added gluing area over the butt splice.

Gorilla snot may work, but I'm open to other suggestions.

 

I used superglue to connect the ends of my rear window
rubber, doesn't leak at all.
TZ

 

I used Crazy glue (or whatever the equivalent is) to glue together the vent window rubber strips on my Mercury. My problem was the Monterey has about a 1.5 inch taller top than the Monclair and therefore a taller vent window assembly than the Monclair. Of course, only the weatherstrips and rubber pieces are available for the Crown Victoria/Monclair! So, I purchased two sets of the Monclair vent window kits and spliced them together to make one set that would fit my Monterey. I used a buttjoint as recommended when assembling O-rings!

 

Here's a neat site someone posted here....
glues for C9

 

That link is screwed up, Root.

Try this one.

 

C9, having done WAY too much old car glass work, I highly, highly recommend using two types of glue.

For gluing two pieces of rubber together (to make a joint, or a flap, or ..... use flexible super glue.

To glue rubber to a hard object that's exposed to heat and UV, use general hardware store variety urathane sealer. Get the black stuff if you're careful and want it to look good, or the clear stuff if you're a klutz and want it to look half-good.

Using the urathane, you can also form it around the joints and sand to shape to make the two-part joint look like it was molded that way.

On the instalation side, use glycerine (from the drug store) to slide the glass into the rubber. It won't attack the paint and bare steel like dishwashing detergent will, and actually conditons the rubber.

 

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On the instalation side, use glycerine (from the drug store) to slide the glass into the rubber. It won't attack the paint and bare steel like dishwashing detergent will, and actually conditons the rubber.

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vedddy interesting...............

 

Thanks guys.
Much appreciated.

Nothing like getting the info from those who've been there and done it.

I sure miss the old time hardware store guys who knew damn near everything - plus a few things you didn't need to know....