What door seal/weatherstrip replacement for a '47 P15?

[sjaakslinger]

The door seal on the inside edges of my doors are shot. I noticed the bottom has some metal strip with rubber? Or what's left of it...

 

What's a good replacement?  I saw some generic door seal, I think from Metro. Is that a good replacement?  Can you use it all the way around the door?

 

Thanks.

 

Dennis

[Eneto-55]

I haven't looked it up to see what they are offering, but I'm not aware of anyone who is producing the bottom strip, with the metal strip molded in and the larger corners, without which I suspect there will be wind noise.  (I haven't looked recently - maybe it's just the leading corner that is especially wider than the rest.)

[Eneto-55]

Here's what I got, but I don't remember where, because it was back in either 80 or 81.

Obviously I didn't purchase it on-line, but they are still in business.

They  list 2 versions of the number on my box:

SKU 4675

and 

SKU 4675B

I cannot tell what the difference is, and I don't see dimensions listed, either.

 

Au-Ve-Co Catalog

 

Other shapes of weatherstripping:

Weatherstripping Shapes

 

Edited February 6 by Eneto-55
additional comment

[sjaakslinger]

9 hours ago, Eneto-55 said:

Here's what I got, but I don't remember where, because it was back in either 80 or 81.

Obviously I didn't purchase it on-line, but they are still in business.

They  list 2 versions of the number on my box:

SKU 4675

and 

SKU 4675B

I cannot tell what the difference is, and I don't see dimensions listed, either.

 

Au-Ve-Co Catalog

 

Other shapes of weatherstripping:

Weatherstripping Shapes

 

Thanks. I think the difference is in softness. It looks the same profile seal that Metro offers and they have a softer material as well.

 

Do you have any pictures of the seal on your door? Does it go al the way around the door?

 

[Eneto-55]

1 hour ago, sjaakslinger said:

Thanks. I think the difference is in softness. It looks the same profile seal that Metro offers and they have a softer material as well.

 

Do you have any pictures of the seal on your door? Does it go al the way around the door?

 

No, not installed yet. I started this restoration soon after I bought the car in March of 1980.  Worked on it for about a year and a half, then "life happened".  Met my wife, moved to here community in Ohio (I'm from Oklahoma), then we moved to Brazil, where we did Bible translation work for 18 years. Then after we moved back to the States, the car remained in my Dad's shop until 2018. It's "parked" in one side of our garage, but I don't have a shop yet, so no room to work on it. I'm starting to wonder now if I will ever finish it. Our house is a split level, and we recently bought my wife's Dad's house (He passed away 4 years ago last September), and I spend as much time as I can working on renovation there.  (I keep finding more rot, and wonder if it's all worth it.)

 

Back to the Plymouth.  (Sorry about the "sob story".) There is a rubber casting factory just down the road a piece here, and I will see if they can make a piece that matches this profile, but has the metal strip cast in it, as well as the larger corners. That might take some guess work, because the pieces I still have of those areas are in very bad condition. Might be too expensive, in which case I'll try to fill in the gap with some other type of rubber, and somehow bond this material to the metal strips.  One thing is, this stuff is still in good shape, even though it is now over 40 years old.  [The original was, of course (from what I could tell, and as I remember it), made all in one piece, all of the way around the door. If I can get something made, I would extend it up the door a bit, both front and rear, then bond it to the weather stripping I already have.  I'm also still searching for windlacing that has the wire mesh in it, to stiffen it so that it actually does what it was designed to do - seal against the doors to cut wind noise. Everything I have seen in the last years is just there for looks.  I had bought a roll of stuff back in the early 80's, but it has deteriorated in the box.  It was sold as walk-in refrigerator door seal, and has the wire mesh in it. But now it's crumbling.  75 1982 hard-earned dollars down the tubes.)