Best mod to date.
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Yup thats the trick, we would use wax and grease remover for paint and just scuff the rubber seal with 40-60 grit sandpaper and clean the rubber with the wax and grease remover and use sandwich bags or cellophane and put the silicone on the rubber or where you needed it to stick. You rework the silicone as it sets up with your finger and saliva.
For some reason saliva works very good for reworking the Silicone as it sets up and keeps the silicone from sticking to your finger. Have plenty of paper towels handy to wipe up the excess Silicone, (and slobber) only wipe 3-6 spots of silicone per towel, that stuff travels. If you get too greedy cleaning silicone with one towel you will look around and see that its on everything. Throw the paper towels away earlier than you would if it was grease. That stuff has legs and before you know it you will have gotten it on the interior of the car or on your clothes.
Let the silicone set up about 10-15 minutes then shut the door gently (sometimes not even all the) way with the bag material over the uncured silicone let it setup. Look for spots that will need to be reworked from the inside and out and keep reworking it with the door closed.
Don't do both sides the same day unless your extra clean and careful. Also do the passenger side first you will surely be more experienced on your side. Within a couple of hours you have a leak free car again. Once you get good with working the silicone you can make some pretty complicated shapes and make it do what ever you want.
BTW humidity helps cure RTV so the saliva really has 2 purposes.
For some reason saliva works very good for reworking the Silicone as it sets up and keeps the silicone from sticking to your finger. Have plenty of paper towels handy to wipe up the excess Silicone, (and slobber) only wipe 3-6 spots of silicone per towel, that stuff travels. If you get too greedy cleaning silicone with one towel you will look around and see that its on everything. Throw the paper towels away earlier than you would if it was grease. That stuff has legs and before you know it you will have gotten it on the interior of the car or on your clothes.
Let the silicone set up about 10-15 minutes then shut the door gently (sometimes not even all the) way with the bag material over the uncured silicone let it setup. Look for spots that will need to be reworked from the inside and out and keep reworking it with the door closed.
Don't do both sides the same day unless your extra clean and careful. Also do the passenger side first you will surely be more experienced on your side. Within a couple of hours you have a leak free car again. Once you get good with working the silicone you can make some pretty complicated shapes and make it do what ever you want.
BTW humidity helps cure RTV so the saliva really has 2 purposes.
I have a few more I will have to look for them, yea I love that car, its so much fun to drive. Everyone looks at it, and every time you drive it at least one person asks what kind of car it is and NO ONE believes its 35 years old.tekdeus said:Moar pics!
I will look for the other photos.
Boy Im the OT king, but I guess its my thread so who cares, LOL.
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I'm out in Chandler, AZ so yeah you and I both know exactly about the heat here, I was almost (not really) happy that I threw a rod in the 1st day of June just because it would have sucked driving the Supra around with no AC. "Winter" is almost here for us man.
I’ve lived in Arizona all my life the heat doesn’t really get to me lol, hell I worked out side construction for 3 years lol.