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Just made 3 attempts with no success. THese things leak like a sieve. What a joke! Duped by OER seals once again. I took a real good look at these and I think the problem, or at least part of the problem, is that they are not thick enough. I noticed the housing bottoms out on the mounts before the gasket actually comes into contact with the back of the tail panel. So there is no way you can get them to properly seal on their own. Sheen> The paint shop just installed a set of those gaskets on my '68. They go > stepped side toward the panel, fitting around the slot's extruded steel, > and the side tabs fit into the ends of the center piece of steel in the > tail panel that crosses the middle of each lens. I had the tail panel > replaced, and the passenger-side gasket didn't quite seal (slight leak > when you blasted the lens straight-on with a hose) so they used a bit of > dum dum, too.> > Andy _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> Donations: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store/cart.mv?999999> FGF Merchandise: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store>
