Clamshell weatherstrips

I second that emotion! Well done! Clamshell owners now have a well-documented solution. Outstanding! And Ford delivers again.

 

Thanks wixom61 for that awesome presentation on clammmy weatherstripping. i just moved from the lake highlands area of dallas to houston. I just wanted to share two good, honest car repair places I found in Dallas. Places like these are almost as good of a find to me as a clamshell in a field (like the one you found on your road trip). Triple A exhaust in Garland is so honest and inexpensive you may cry with joy when they put true dual exhausts on your bad boy. Also a place called something like "Trowwel and Reese automotive" by parkland behind a classic car sales place on Harry Hines was an honest, inexpensive and small (no expensive overhead) mechanic who did good work on my clamshell. For those two honest places I could tell you about five other not so honest places that I found. We should consider a thread on this website of forum recommendations for wagon repair throughout the country.

 

Hey tsynek,
Lake Highlands huh...that's where I grew up.
Thanks for the recommendations for good, honest mechanic shops. I am sure I will need them.
The exhaust is going to be my first stop.

I think a thread with recommendations for wagon repair is a great idea!

I wish someone could fix 72KingswoodEstate up with a good mechanic.

 

Priceless info! Thanks for posting it! If I end up keeping my 72 Caprice wagon I know what to do, because my weather strip there is tattered too!

My car also fills up with water in the back (if I dont have it covered), but the cargo area windows leak too (imagine that) and will have to be removed and resealed... probably rust there too.

 

I raised that once, but I got a good argument from our wagonmaster.
1) The 'General Tech' and Cosmetic sections are for that.
2) The whole site is about wagons.

The second-last paragraph on this page describes one of the oldest techniques to set timing. Henry Ford didn't have Xenon timing lights, right? But he did have vacuum gauges:
http://my67mustang.synthasite.com/duraspark-ii.php

And that makes sense, when you think that an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) is a huge vacuum pump, sucking air in to mix with the fuel.

On this Early Ford V8 vacuum gauge page, the combobox on the upper RH corner has the article that explains it:
http://www.efv8.org/site/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=43

 

Best Vacuum Tuning Guide!!

Timing light? Don't need no stinkin' light!

This is where the men and the geeks divide!
http://classicinlines.com/Vacuum.asp

It's not brand/make specific, just good old facts for all.

This might help too:
http://classicinlines.com/IgnitionTiming.asp

 

I am definitely going to take that advice... here is my ragged weatherstrip!!!





and it setting under this tree is not helping it any.

 

yours does not look all that bad... what about if you were to coat the outside with black caulk or weatherstrip adhesive and smooth it like bondo with a putty knife? that would fill in the cracks and make it look nice

 

Any change the photos are coming back into this thread? .... meeting season started here; 2 clamshell owners asked me for a source to get those weatherstrips and I directed them to SWF (not only this thread but also the other David (Wixom62) made about our beloved glide-away tailgates)