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General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: paul c on July 03, 2011, 10:29:32 PM

Title: weather stripping
Post by: paul c on July 03, 2011, 10:29:32 PM

who have you guys had good luck with for weather stipping? steele seems to be too hard of a rubber. thanks in advance.

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: nut465gs on July 05, 2011, 08:50:45 PM

Hi Paul,

I've used Steele Rubber for the door window fuzzies and the rubber sweeps. They worked out just fine. For all the other weatherstripping I used SoftSeal products, which I believe is what Year one and other vendors sell. All worked well except the trunk weatherstrip. I think that the package may have been mislabeled.

Anybody else?

John

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: Mark Ascher on July 06, 2011, 12:24:10 PM

I have been using a mix of weatherstripping from different makers. Mostly Steele so far for door/quarter mouldings, roofrail, doors, trunk. I used Metro for the large ventwing weatherstrips, and Steele for the small vertical seals.

Mark

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: WkillGS on July 07, 2011, 08:29:19 AM

CARS, www.oldbuickparts.com   , once advertised they sold Steele products for 15% off.
Might be worthwhile doing a price check before buying directly from Steele.

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: paul c on July 07, 2011, 09:15:33 PM

thanks. i had used steele for the quarter glass to front door glass strip and it is the correct demetions but hard as a rock. i had good luck with the door glass front run channel from opg http://www.opgi.com/p/weatherstripping-seals/156/100/GRC0017.html these were the only ones that conformed to the butterfly window frames correctly.

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: dl7265 on July 27, 2011, 12:11:06 AM

Metro and Soffseal are the two manufactures. Steele is only a re seller.

Title: Re: weather stripping
Post by: WkillGS on July 27, 2011, 11:29:09 AM

Steele certainly is a manufacturer, and a big one. The 2006 catalog I have here has over 500 pages of rubber items!