Rivets for outer door seals
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Rivets for outer door seals
I bought the GM outer door seals. I know that the MAD Vette seals come with rivets but I've been reading that the GM seals are far superior. Before I start, what kind of rivets do I need and are they available at Lowe's? Thanks
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (HiRiser)
It's really hard to replace all 3 of them.. the one by the mirror is nearly impossible to get to with a riveter... I didn't rivet that one and my car is doing fine oabout a year later.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'08-'10
Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Glock'94)
It's really hard to replace all 3 of them.. the one by the mirror is nearly impossible to get to with a riveter...
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Blue 92)
It's really hard to replace all 3 of them.. the one by the mirror is nearly impossible to get to with a riveter...
The front one was a little more difficult than the others but not really bad. Just took a little bit of an angle on the gun.
The front one was a little more difficult than the others but not really bad. Just took a little bit of an angle on the gun.
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St. Jude Donor '06-'08-'10
Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Glock'94)
I guess my gun is bigger than yours ....
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Blue 92)
I guess my gun is bigger than yours ....
It's not how big your gun is, it's what you can do with it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
It's not how big your gun is, it's what you can do with it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Glock'94)
How hard are those outer door seals to remove and replace? I bought the new ones from MAD about 5 months ago, and have YET to even THINK of putting them on...but lately, I've been hearing of more people doing them. I'm pretty skilled when it comes to working on cars, but it was the thought of taking the door apart that scared me. (I don't want to try and put it back together and then have it look like complete CRAP) I need to replace my inner door upper trim/seals aswell, so should I do this all at once? Thanks!
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (Glock'94)
This afternoon I replaced the door outer seals, and I'm glad I didn't read this thread first, or I'd have not bothered with the rivets. However, I did bother and although the one by the mirror was tricky, I was able to get the rivetter on all 3. I'd hate to have not bothered then find the seal creeping up over time!
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (TIMSPEED)
Figure about 45 minutes a door for the first time. I'd do all of it at the same time.
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How hard are those outer door seals to remove and replace? I bought the new ones from MAD about 5 months ago, and have YET to even THINK of putting them on...but lately, I've been hearing of more people doing them. I'm pretty skilled when it comes to working on cars, but it was the thought of taking the door apart that scared me. (I don't want to try and put it back together and then have it look like complete CRAP) I need to replace my inner door upper trim/seals aswell, so should I do this all at once? Thanks!
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (steveelsbury)
my seals wouldn't stay down without the rivets, i didn't have enough of the right size rivets to do both sides and so i left the drivers side rivets off, and the seal crept up the very first time i rolled the window up. none of the rivets was really that difficult to get to, but then again maybe my riveter is a different style than some of yours.
it also helps if you take a wide putty knife and a hammer and tap the seal into a perfectly straight line and make sure it is well seated before riveting it down... tapping it really made it look much better than the ones that i did without tapping them.
it also helps if you take a wide putty knife and a hammer and tap the seal into a perfectly straight line and make sure it is well seated before riveting it down... tapping it really made it look much better than the ones that i did without tapping them.
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Re: Rivets for outer door seals (SonnyinVA)
The first door took me an 90 minutes the second. 30 minutes. Once you get the doors off (15 minutes) and you know what to do it is a snap... I guess my gun was smaller than everyone's :sad: I made all the rivets fit :lol:
PS. to me the worst part was makign the snap pins fit into the groove while the darn window was in the way. Just insure that you center the snap pin tab in the center of the oval shaped how if you have it too far to either exteme in this hole it will be difficult to get the other tabs lined in proberly... I use GM part from Jeff Coop. $25 bucks per side... Why not go with the OEM part
:confused:
[Modified by 92LT1Roadster, 8:51 PM 5/6/2002]
PS. to me the worst part was makign the snap pins fit into the groove while the darn window was in the way. Just insure that you center the snap pin tab in the center of the oval shaped how if you have it too far to either exteme in this hole it will be difficult to get the other tabs lined in proberly... I use GM part from Jeff Coop. $25 bucks per side... Why not go with the OEM part
:confused:
[Modified by 92LT1Roadster, 8:51 PM 5/6/2002]
