Fhill Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Hi just bought my first land rover series 3 and the first thing I wanted to do is to make it water tight . Are the one piece door seals ok or should I go with the separate ones . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 "water tight" LOL - you'll be lucky If the one piece ones are fitted correctly, then they should be fine. Original are several bits, so leaks at joins is common. Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainH Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I'm still laughing at the words Series and watertight in the same sentence. I have reduced some of the gap on my doors by pulling in the door catches on the existing seals and pushing the door tops in a little. I do plan on repairing the door seals at some point as the cill section is ripped, I will probably try to patch a section rather than completely renew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xychix Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 LOL, mine aren't even closing coconut-tight. The only reason coconuts don't fall in between the door and the roof is because I'm in France... no coconuts here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingsid Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Welcome to the forum and Land Rover ownership. There are plenty enough challenges from this day on but you might like to modify your expectations before you get too disillusioned! Don't worry though you will either hate it or spend your life on it! Guess which ones we are? Have fun lots of the answers are here. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 You can fit the Defender seals, but will need to remove all the rivets holding the original seals in, not just he seals themselves, and will need to grind the lip of the seal mounting flange back to remove the 90 degree fold level with the inside of the fold (ie the fold itself needs removal to reduce the size of the flange or the door seal will make the door aperture too small for the door to close). You also need to look at getting the door tops to lean inwards correctly - they usually have gaps around the top,pattern door tops being terrible for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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