As If I Didn’t Leak Enough Before…

Now I don’t have a rear window and my driver’s door won’t close all the way. This past Saturday, Ariel, her Uncle Jeff, and Tom all worked together to re-hang my driver’s door. It all went together quite well, and with only a small adjustment, the door closed and latched just fine. Then Ariel removed the old weatherstrip on that door and installed a replacement. The new one looked much thicker than the old, and it was. After she had finished, they tried to latch the door shut and couldn’t get it closed all the way. Thinking that the adjustment was off, the two of them tweaked the door all the ways they could and still it wouldn’t close. Setting it in the best location they could, they closed the door as far as they could and then held it tightly in place with a rope tied to both outside door handles.

While this was going on, the two of them also removed my rear window. They cut away the rubber gasket and all the silicone that they’d used to try and seal my 45-year-old rubber until the window was free enough for them to remove. Tom then went at the rust and old sealer with the wire brush. We were all happy to discover only a couple of tiny rust-holes. Ariel then applied the rusty-metal primer.