NEED HELP-trick to install rubber gasket rear pop-out window (69)

[hmauch]

anyone knowing any tricks??.....received (after-market) rubber gaskets part # 901-543-901-20-M260 $ 901-534-902-20-M260 from Pelican last week for 1969 911 Coupe rear pop-out quarter window to body. I removed gasket from one window cleaned chrome grove etc. and have spent alot of time trying to get new one in...no luck...have talked and taken to various resources of mine here in Houston and no luck....I am thinking of returning parts to Pelican and try OEM genuine porsche parts thinking maybe its the after market gasket that's the problem....I just do not wanted to give up yet......so if you have gone through this before or know someone and have words of advise / special tools??? it would be greatly appreciated....

Regards,
Thanks in advance
Howard
hmauch@windstream.net

[joefrantz]

Here is the best thread on the subject.
Post # 21 sums it up pretty well.

Rear Quarter Window Weatherstrip - I Have the Fix!!!

Good Luck -- be patient.

Joe

[WRGREENER]

Be patient...the best advise yet.... i have done about six of these. each time i swear it is a bad piece of rubber. but no.. i finger pressure in as much as it will take (without popping back out-especially on the opposite side).. let it sit a day (it relaxes a bit) then hit it again until it refuses, let it sit a day... repeat until it decades to stay in place. it becomes almost like a zen thing. great conversation piece, take it to the office and challenge your colleagues to make it work. i will try the wedge thing next time however.

[skrufy]

I have not read the above thread on installing the window trim, but here is what I did on mine.....

I have a '77 930, the last year with the pop out windows which I really like. I thoroughly lubed the gaskets with McGuires Rubber Treatment- good stuff, but you could also use Armourall- which I hate- or just a soapy solution with Dawn or similar out of a spray bottle. The soap/water will dry however as you use it.

You do have to be super patient- I used some plastic and wooden tools- some I made. Do not use metal tools. Plastic putty knives work well, and I used wooden popsicle sticks and a tongue depressor cut at a straight angle, then sanded to have a clean snag free edge. If you don't have any of these, go to Lowes/HDepot to the paint department, and look around the paint brush area for items you can use. The plastic tools are very inexpensive.

The whole gasket goes in pretty easy- UNTIL you get to the final corner- this is where the patience comes it- you will have to work each end slowly to push it into the grooves- I bought mine from Pelican, and they worked just fine for me.

MAKE SURE you have the right gasket on the correct side! When I took my old ones off, I found they someone had installed the old ones to the wrong side, making the installation problem even worse!...... Of course, you have to have to have the side windows out of the car to do this.....

Tim

[hmauch]

thanks all for your input......went with the sticky soap soap solution...started top corner and down top first then side then finished with the bottom.....had a great tool hanging around that came in real handy......it has a short handle with two 1" dia. wheels about a 1/16" thk with a grove on one wheel and curved on the other......it is used to install rope like gasket when replacing screen int aluminum screen windows ......WORKS GREAT.....wedge gasket in first to get in placee then used roller tool to push nicely in place...very little risk of damaging gasket.......first window took me about 1/2 hr second about 10 min...
Glad i didn't send parts back!!!!!!
Again thanks to all replies