'56 Vent window
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'56 Vent window
I just replaced the rubber around the vent windows and put in new division bars. There is a sizeable gap now between the bottom of the vent window frame and the door. If it rains it will leak like a sieve. Is there some way to decrease this gap or some kind of filler that I can use to improve the seal. Of course the alternative is to not drive in the rain which is always an option. 
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The gap is between the whole assembly and the door. On the outside of the door just next to the spot where the division bar comes out and then functions as the seal to the rear side of the vent window.
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Hmmm! So there's a gap between the division bar and the vent glass.
Is the vent glass new?
My illustration book shows a door vent window division bar WEATHERSTRIP that fits on the division bar and is between the vent glass and the division bar.
Dumb question, but did the new division bar come with that weather strip?
Is the vent glass new?
My illustration book shows a door vent window division bar WEATHERSTRIP that fits on the division bar and is between the vent glass and the division bar.
Dumb question, but did the new division bar come with that weather strip?
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The divsion bar came with a weather strip. The gap is really in the opening in the door at the bottom of the vent window. The frame fits in the door and the opening in the door seems too wide so that there is extra room around the frame. The biggest gap is near the division bar where it comes through the opening in the door where the window cranks up through.
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seawulff, how big is the gap?
Any chance of posting a pic in your gallery?
If you have enough play in the channel, you can do what AXracer posted and move it a bit.
Any chance of posting a pic in your gallery?
If you have enough play in the channel, you can do what AXracer posted and move it a bit.
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I have tried moving the division bar and that really didn't help. I with all my long winded descriptions I too came to the conclusion that a picture is worth a thousand words so I will try to put a picture in he gallery tomorrow.
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OK I uploaded some photos of the situation. I don't have the best lens for this kind of close-up but I hope you get the point. They are listed under the '56 Project- Window Gap. Thanks.
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seawulff, I think there's a weather strip that goes between the vent frame and the vent glass assembly; at least on my 55 F100.
It seats inside the vent frame and should cover the gap around the vent frame; at least on mine.
Is there a weather strip there, and is it new?
It seats inside the vent frame and should cover the gap around the vent frame; at least on mine.
Is there a weather strip there, and is it new?
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I have the weather strip installed between the glass and the frame and that gap is there and it is a new weather strip. I think that maybe the frame got straightened out and it has made the weather strip less of a seal to the door.
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I had to enlarge one of the pics to have a better look.
It seems that the weather strip doesn't cover much of the vent frame and door at all.
The weather strip on mine covers the gap all the way around the vent frame, except of course where it meets the division bar. Hmmmm!
I gotta think about this one.
It seems that the weather strip doesn't cover much of the vent frame and door at all.
The weather strip on mine covers the gap all the way around the vent frame, except of course where it meets the division bar. Hmmmm!
I gotta think about this one.
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I'd have to take a look at mine to be sure but it looks like from what I can see in the pictures that there is a piece of weatherstrip missing. Coud you have possibly switched the weatherstrip side to side?