Thread: Dust sealing on a D2... good or bad?

The door seals can be improved by inserting a length of fly screen tube into the gap, and sealing them up with sikaflex.
If you're getting dust in the rear I'd take a look at this thread

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...-problems.html

HTH
Cheers
Muppet

Hi, we took our D2 across the top of Australia often and it was the most dust free vehicle we could imagine, inside was always dust free.

You must have some door seals leaking, possibly the rear door. Also there are some bungs and a pressurising flap behind the rear right cubby box / dickie seat. This may be missing or damaged, not uncommon.


Pics typical of what our Disco went through

Top of the boot door can be a problem.

Wow! For yours to not leak under those conditions is very good! I find with mine the side doors are good for dust sealing but the rear is not so good. The more corrugations there is results in more ingress! Yet the door has no movement on the hinges that I can find. The dust enters mostly at the top and not on the sides . Its not to the stage yet of being a major drama though. 1 day!
Cheers Scott

Originally Posted by schuy1

Wow! For yours to not leak under those conditions is very good! I find with mine the side doors are good for dust sealing but the rear is not so good. The more corrugations there is results in more ingress! Yet the door has no movement on the hinges that I can find. The dust enters mostly at the top and not on the sides . Its not to the stage yet of being a major drama though. 1 day!
Cheers Scott

Try packing a rubber strip behind the top rear door seal. That will make it bear against the top of the rear door and hopefully provide better sealing.

Mine gets plenty if I have been over corrugations. I have even changed the door seals over and still no luck. I now carry an old sheet and cover my stuff when doing dirt roads.
Dave.

I finally got around to having a closer look at the sealing on the back door. The reality is there is practically none!

There is an easily visible gap between the door and the body from half way up the hinged side right along the roof line.

I'll give muppet's suggestion of the fly screen beading a go, but now that I've had a closer look, it's no suprise I so much dust and water leaking through the back door.

Originally Posted by plaven

I finally got around to having a closer look at the sealing on the back door. The reality is there is practically none!

There is an easily visible gap between the door and the body from half way up the hinged side right along the roof line.

I'll give muppet's suggestion of the fly screen beading a go, but now that I've had a closer look, it's no suprise I so much dust and water leaking through the back door.

Do you mean the back passenger doors or the door right at the very back ie the 5th door.

The back passenger doors can be adjusted (apparently). I read it in the RAV after I had a quarter window replaced by Windscreens O'brien I could hear air leaking so I took it back with the instructions for the RAV.

My Disco seals awesome. No dust at all and the stuff up here is like nothing anywhere else in Australia by the end of the dry.

Happy Days.