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pchristy V4 Guru
United Kingdom 1790 Posts | Posted - 07 Dec 2019 : 11:54:08
| All the years I've had my current V4 (11, now!), its suffered from a leak into the boot. Being a '71 car, its meant to have the seal that glues to the lid, but I've never been able to find one - until now! The ones that clip around the body simply don't work, and get damaged by the hinges!
Now its over 40 years since I sold my original '69 car, and that never leaked - but I can't remember how the seal was meant to fit! One side of the seal is shamfered, so that obviously has to go against the curve where the lid meets the strengthening skinning. BUT, it could go on two ways, and I have no idea which is correct!
If anyone has a car with an original boot seal (that doesn't leak!), could you post some pictures - preferably close-up - so I can see which way round to fit it, please? (Flat against the inside of the lid, or "vertical" against the strengthening skinning)
I've trawled the internet to no avail, and none of my workshop manuals - not even the factory one - mentions this seal at all!
Cheers,
-- Pete "Duct tape is like the Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together!" |
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green96v4 V4 Mad
Canada 737 Posts | Posted - 07 Dec 2019 : 17:53:12
| Original boot lid from my car (which didn't make the grade for the restoration, so I have no reason to believe this isn't the original seal)
Hollow D shape profile which is readily available from seal/molding stores and sites, I used contact adhesive to re-adhere mine
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pchristy V4 Guru
United Kingdom 1790 Posts | Posted - 07 Dec 2019 : 18:33:20
| That's great! Just what I needed to know!
Many thanks!
-- Pete "Duct tape is like the Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together!" | |
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andydeans3 V4 Guru
United Kingdom 1994 Posts | Posted - 08 Apr 2020 : 18:57:02
| Pete Make sure that it IS the boot lid that's leaking, and not the rear screen. After many failed attempts to get my boot lid to seal, I recently realised that it was actually a small drip coming from the rear screen. I was lying inside the boot, with a torch, with my wife fine spraying the back of the car, to discover this! I've now pumped sealant into the rear screen seal,between rubber and body, and rubber and glass, and that seems to have sorted it, FINALLY!
1978 LHD SAAB 96 1978 MGB Roadster 2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo 1991 Nissan Figaro | |
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