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I did Rog, I did!


a pillar seal
You are a real gentleman that doesn't read any praise for you

Sorry Bernt, I missed the thread.

One hundred lines. “I must pay better attention….”

I will consider myself reprimanded

Correction made to link above.

Richard, I noticed when new my seals were applying a lot of twist to the lip as the sidescreen frame closed & opened over it, I put a steel ruler against it and carefully trimmed a tiny sliver off with a scalpel, which solved mine, plus I lube them occasionally with a bit of clear Autoglym tyre dressing on the 'fin'

A very neat job!

Thanks Jon, will try that with the new ones although I do lube them occasionally.

Thanks! I hadn’t really thought about sealing here before. I don’t know how effective the harder material will be compared to the squishy foam but the roof appears to sit on it nicely, so far....

Pulling the old seals off leaves a strip of the self adhesive material firmly stuck to each inner edge of windscreen pillar. This is extremely difficult to remove until I discovered this method:

Soften remaining material with brake cleaner then start peeling from edge with finger nail. Once started continue with downward thumb pressure. The material should peel off cleanly rolling into a ball which can be picked off when large enough. Clean any residue with paper towel soaked in brake cleaner. This leaves clean surface ready to accept new seals.

And a pic of the front rail sat on the rubber pad with the roof locked down.
If nothing else it should help protect the paint...

Damn you Rog, another thing I now have to buy for Monty

Seriously though, thanks for sharing, these seals look like a 'must have'

Only last week I added a run of self adhesive neoprene up the inner leading edge of both side screens to create a neoprene on neoprene seal, this eliminated the rattles and created a better seal reducing wind noise, but these lip seals look like a way better solution so I've just bpoght a pair.

Let's hope the supplier is more effective with my seal order than they were getting a pair of spot light mounts to me, despite confirming at the start of the process the brackets were in stock, over three weeks and four telephone calls later I was forced to ask for a refund and buy an alternative set from Librands

Fingers crossed the seals will be with me for Saturday as I'm prepping Monty for a run to Goodwood on the Sunday.