Thread: Rusted door top bolts.

Originally Posted by ezyrama

Get some of this stuff, the best thing ever invented since the battery drill.

Agree, but neverseize is much more expensive than grease.

Yep been using neverseize for years good stuff..
You've got to undo the old rusted stuff first though.

Just of interest i took the best sample of door seal with me
to our local wrecker / rare spares to day and they had
about 5m of Land Rover door seal for $8/m .
Part no 39-499R.
They said they would get more in.

Now to sort out the metal strips and rivets.

Still working on the door tops.

Andrew

That is the currently available door seal, you can also get it from All four X 4 in Kotara, they sell it by the roll which is sufficient to do a complete door. However it is not the same as the original.

The original was shaped to fit the bulge at the waist and already had the metal strips already bonded/moulded inside with the holes pre drilled and counter sunk.

The rivits should be mushroom headed rivets but most people merely use pop rivets.

The old seals had mushroom rivets.
I am thinking of using aluminium rivets with less
pressure than steel ones to stop the rubber
bulging out.


Andrew

Originally Posted by AKW

The old seals had mushroom rivets.
I am thinking of using aluminium rivets with less
pressure than steel ones to stop the rubber
bulging out.
Andrew

Yes they were aluminium "mushroom headed" solid rivets, the type you upset into place using a hammer snap and buckling bar or a pneumatic hammer with a special shaped tool and the buckling bar.

If you are really kean wanting a good seal without necessarily caring about originality, then you can cut off the lip in the door jam and use pinch-weld seal or even Defender pinch-weld door seals.

I want to keep it as close to original as possible.
I have most of the seal i need just need new metal
strips to go in it.
I have used mushroom rivets in leather before.
But i do not have the tools at the moment to use them now.
Was going to get aluminium pop rivets, but will ask about
the outher ones.
We have a good bolt shop in town.

When i get my daughter to show me how i will put some photos up.
Andrew

Success, got them off finally. Not too bad condition
had to cut a new thread on one bolt.
plenty of copper grease and back on.

Thanks for all help.


Andrew