First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... S Sterchi wrote: > First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List > ......................................................................... > > 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 > _________________________________________________________________ > >
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