Re: Sticky stuff behind trim and weatherstrip rail (butyl tape)

by Fishgrinder on Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:50 am

77mali wrote:who's the manufacturer of the products you ended up with?

I cant' find a label on it, must be exclusive for the the parts store or something.

pila wrote:I went through that with my Elco project, and like said, it was a job cleaning all the old sticky stuff off, which is actually a tape, 1/32 thick. I bought a roll of it off of Ebay. On mine, the stainless steel drip rail goes on first, with a strip of the tape on it, against the roof line. Then the rail that the roof seal goes into goes on, with another strip if the rubber seal tape. In fact I just got it together last week. Not a fun job, takes a little patience, which I have these days, now that I'm old & mellow !!

Pila, would you mind describing the process a little more detail? For instance, did you make the tape overlap between the pieces?

Did you also put tape on the marked area here (a-beam), and also on the windshild side of it?