How does this go in?

[john108]

1968 Charger
I have the Metro Roof Rail Seals.
Each of the two seals are a mirror image of the other.
How do they fit into the roof rail molding, and which of the 2 are driver and passenger side??
Feeling the inside of the roof rail molding, each side of the molding has a shoulder, I believe meant to retain the seal.
But, I haven't decided which way and how it is pushed in.
The pictures below are the same seal, just a slightly different angle.  Is it driver or passenger side?
How does it bottom in the channel of the molding?

I know it is wordy, but Thank You
John

[HeavyFuel]

My experience has been that the repos are not shaped right, and will never do a good job.


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,98556.msg1162072.html#msg1162072

[green69rt]

here's the page from the FSM, good luck making sense out of it.  Read the text, it gives clues.

[hemi-hampton]

My experience has been that the repos are not shaped right, and will never do a good job.


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,98556.msg1162072.html#msg1162072

I never seen a repro of anything shaped right. unfortunately.

[green69rt]

My experience has been that the repos are not shaped right, and will never do a good job.


http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,98556.msg1162072.html#msg1162072

I never seen a repro of anything shaped right. unfortunately.

Yeap, they are all over the place.  Some are better than others but you never know till you actually get it in your hands.

[john108]

I got the Metro.
I put it in and it doesn't look bad.
I an still having some trouble aligning the quarter window not to fold the rubber one way or the other.

[green69rt]

I got the Metro.
I put it in and it doesn't look bad.
I an still having some trouble aligning the quarter window not to fold the rubber one way or the other.

I'm not 100% certain but I think the windows actually push one layer of the rubber against the rest to form the seal.  It's not like the window slips into a groove of the rubber but pushes against one layer.  Now I'm going to have to go out and look,  again,  to see how mine fit!

[HeavyFuel]

I got the Metro.
I put it in and it doesn't look bad.
I an still having some trouble aligning the quarter window not to fold the rubber one way or the other.

I'm not 100% certain but I think the windows actually push one layer of the rubber against the rest to form the seal.  It's not like the window slips into a groove of the rubber but pushes against one layer.  Now I'm going to have to go out and look,  again,  to see how mine fit!

I too tried the Metros, and they are now rolled up in a drawer in my garage.  The 40 year old originals (now over 50) went back on the car.

If you reviewed my lengthy topic (linked above.....wow, over 30,300 views!), I went great pains to get the Metros to work.  No dice.

How hard is it to take a known profile and reproduce it exactly?  I'm getting pissed off all over again just thinking about the time I spent trying get my glass adjusted, especially the quarters.  Low and behold, as soon as I put the original foam back on, all the glass adjusted beautifully.

[john108]

Still adjusting, but the quarter glass slips into the channel most of the way but grabs the inner lip partially.