I took the driver's side outer sill off (it's the better of the two).
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The new rubber for the rear window looked like it had been twisted up in the bag for too long. It's also a lot stiffer than the rubber for the windscreen.
Anyway, I thought I'd 'train' it, so I wrapped it around the window. Not real easy - initially I squirted soapy water on it but as it turned out that it made it too slippery and it kept sliding back out. I did the centre section first. For the end pieces, putting the top and bottom of the glass for about 5cm and then working my way around from the top did the job.
I built a temporary shelf out of crate wood for it in the shed.
Hey mate that is what I did with the rubbers for my screens, left them on for a good couple of weeks and heat in the shed during summer before they were fitted.
Neil
Member of WA FB/EK Car Club
Frankenstein EK V6 Ute
The Reverend FB Station Wagon Project
1950's Commer Light Truck (2.5 Ton)
I did a trial fit of the new outer sill. The sill isn't a perfect reproduction, but it's not bad.
A couple of tek screws and it was on - but I thought I better listen to Clay and hang a door. It took a bit of trimming, bending and elongating of the hole for the sub-frame bolt get it to sit low enough at the front.
I'm happy enough now that after I tidy up all the 'ugly' behind it, I'll be able to put it straight on.
Not worth saving them hey. My method was to wrap them around my cordless grinder with wire wheel. They do get in the way when you’re doing rust repairs. The number of times I worked around them, only to eventually remove the entire loom. Not that there is much to the thing really.
FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie
getting my FB ute on the road
EK van on rotisserie
they are almost tight and to short from holden i found when building my fb, those ones look like they have had a hard life
FB-Special
Big block 161
Holley sniper EFI.
Vintage air ducted heat and cool.
Ek auto column shift.
Lj diff and reverse lights.
WA FB~EK Car Club Member.
at least it wasn't like the 'extra' wires that come out of an ex-ambulance (last project)...they run from under both seats to behind the dash, out the back and out the front with some of them integrated into the standard Sprinter functions
Errol62 wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:45 pm
Repairing and attaching the bottom of the panel rear of the B-pillar is tricky. Haven’t worked out how to do that one yet.
Yep Clay, I don't know about the panel van but in the ute it's nearly impossible to get to from behind. I went with Sikaflex for the edge where it meets the sill.
I've grown to trust Sikaflex - I used it to attach brackets for a solar panel to the roof of the campervan...it's been subjected to highway speeds for about 10,000 kms now.
Not sure about trusting it on a painted surface though, unless you know how well the paint is bonded to the surface.
Decided to have a break from being underneath the car and started stitching in some new metal on the driver's side...pic of 'round one' attached
yes listwn yo clay 
