Tony Carter Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Hi all. I have just bought and fitted a new replacement Aluminium upper tail gate for my Rangie, but cannot work out how to fit the Aluminium channel that holds the bottom rubber seal in. If I fit (pop rivet) the Aluminium channel in place, it would seem impossible to then fit the rubber seal, which "looks" like it is meant to slide in "somehow". Does anyone have any ideas how to fit the Aluminuium channel and rubber seal ? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway_Star Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 With enormous difficulty, and probably the odd stabbed finger. I rivetted it on, then gently pushed the seal into the channel, inch by inch using a blunt trim removal tool. A wee bit of lubricant ( I used Hellerine) helped enormously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8david Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I rivetted it on, then gently pushed the seal into the channel, inch by inch using a blunt trim removal tool. A wee bit of lubricant ( I used Hellerine) helped enormously. So did I. With alot of swearing. Try to resist the temptation to throw the tailgate across the drive and stamp on it! Take it out on the old one instead! Anyway, above method works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Carter Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 With enormous difficulty, and probably the odd stabbed finger.I rivetted it on, then gently pushed the seal into the channel, inch by inch using a blunt trim removal tool. A wee bit of lubricant ( I used Hellerine) helped enormously. I have just tried to rivit ithe Aluminium channel in place but my rivet gun wont get in close enough to pop the rivet! I have fixed the Aluminium channel in place with tiny self tapping screws. (I hope the heads dont stop the rubber going in!) Tomorrow I will try and fit the ruber!!!! Watch this space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Carter Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 So did I. With alot of swearing. Try to resist the temptation to throw the tailgate across the drive and stamp on it! Take it out on the old one instead! Anyway, above method works fine. Fortunately, I cant throw ithe old tailgate.. I took it down the skip, as the trail of rust was making a mess of the garage!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paintman Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 File a bit off each side of the rivet gun head - I did when I did mine - to allow it to get into the channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveRK Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 I used self tappers on mine and it seemed like it was gonna be an impossible job to get the seal to stay in as you work along. I used an old bone handled cutlery knife with a nice flat, thin, wide blade and ground the rounded end square - much better than a screw driver to feed the seal in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cil111 Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 real PITA job... i had not actually slid the thing in because i was not managing... what i had done was offered the seal to the metal thing and pushed it in all along the way from both sides bit by bit using a screwdriver.. took a long time and you get very close to resorting to an angle grinder and cutting the whole window up.... I too had used rivets by grinding off a piece of the rivet gun head and it worked a treat... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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