[FC] Window Felts?

[Dale Dewald]

Hello Mike,

The material you are looking for is a fiber-coated, stiff rubber channel 
used for the roll-up/down windows. It snaps into place in the metal 
sub-channel inside of the door.  I obtained this replacement material for 
our '65 Greenbrier from Corvair Underground.  In the spring 2004 I had 
ordered a complete weatherstrip kit from Clark's. The kit came with the 
correct rubber material for the front door windows but had the earlier 
style metal/cloth channel for the side door/side panel windows.  I informed 
Clark's of this situation so they may have made a change to their kit since 
then.

The original rubber channel had a series of slots cut in the back side so 
that it could be smoothly bent without puckering.  The reproduction, of 
course, is a straight piece of material.  My body/trim man and I used a 
razor knife to cut similar slots in the reproduction material using our 
most intact original as a pattern.  The careful application of heat helped 
smooth out the corners but a couple of them did not fit quite right.  It 
seems that the originals were pressed or molded to get a smooth bend.

Could this substitution of window channel material be another of the many 
mid-1963 changes to the FC vehicle line?

Dale Dewald
Hancock, MI

At 07:04 PM 11/8/06 -0500, Mike Maurio wrote:
 >>snip<<
>Nope, the stuff I speak of is the black or dark gray fuzzy-faced channel
>that fits into the recess the glass slides up and down in on the sides, 
>and into
>at the top. The OEM product looks to be one piece, and is curved in two
>locations to fit the shape of the window opening.



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