Window seal rust?

[ramdough]

Looking at solving this issue. Only have two pictures and truck is not near me, so this is a brainstorming session.

The seal looks deformed, and rust is coming out from under it.

Thinking of pealing the lip up and injecting por15 in there..... not familiar on what to do. I am hesitant to have a windshield guy pull the seal out, because I hear replacement seals are stupid expensive.

what do you guys think?

 

[foxtrk2]

I think your idea of putting the por15 under the seal would work. only suggestion id have is to go up the side quite a bit higher than you are showing , water usually migrates from the top down

 

[Karl kostman]

I have seen this on vehicles that have sat outdoors for long periods of time between the sun and the rain its bound to happen. The only real way to clean this up long term is to pull the weather stripping off so you are able to totally see what your dealing with, POR 15 is a good product and with the weather strip off you can really give it a good treatment making sure you have total coverage I am afraid if you just try to inject it your going to miss places and then you have potential real rot problems in the future.\
Karl

 

[bachman502]

I agree with Karl. You need to pull the windshield. Stop the rust now before it gets any worse.

 

[ramdough]

Are the seals usually reusable? I have heard horror stories about having to import the rubber seal at a high price. This is on an FMTV.


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[bachman502]

They usually are reusable on other vehicles. I would get the glass pulled then inspect the gasket. The glass guy could possibly reuse your weatherstripping along with using a product called Window Weld by 3m.