Rear Weather strip help

[USAFPILOT]

I have perfectly good weather strip around the hatch, but it is loose all the way around the bottom. You can just lift it up. I dont have any water coming in the car that I know of, yet this just doesn't seem correct. Should I just go get some 3M weather strip glue and squirt it in there and make it stick again? It looks like some kind of whitish glue is behind it, and in some places that stuff s still liquid, but very sticky.

[USAFPILOT]

well I think it is basically torn all the way around somehow, time to replace what I thought was still perfect.

[Z51JEFF]

Its history,mine is on its way out as well.Ive got a new G.M. piece that I plan on putting in the car when I get the back torn apart for my Euro taillight install.

[WARP TEN]

Originally Posted by USAFPILOT

well I think it is basically torn all the way around somehow, time to replace what I thought was still perfect.

I just had to do that also on the 20,000 mile 95. I replaced both the hatch and rear targa hoop weatherstripping. Decided to use oriignal GM parts on Marc Haibeck's suggestion. Expensive. I think about $300 for targe piece and $350 for hatch. Or thereabouts--ouch. Marc said there are less expensive replicas available but his experience and that of his customers is that they off-gas and smell like kerosene for about 4 years, and the replica for the targa hoop is not the same color as the original--too gray. Marc installed them for me. They look perfect. --Bob

[USAFPILOT]

I think I am going to use Wilcox for the hatch...anything else I will go with GM.

[WARP TEN]

Originally Posted by USAFPILOT

I think I am going to use Wilcox for the hatch...anything else I will go with GM.

I don't know about what replacements other than GM are the best. Maybe others here have had good luck with Wilcox or others. You might give Marc Haibeck a call to see if he knows which of the knock offs smells like kerosene. He said it is quite pronounced and lasts several years. At least one customer replaced his with GM after first using the knock off. You can certainly save some money if one is Ok though. --Bob

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by USAFPILOT

I think I am going to use Wilcox for the hatch...anything else I will go with GM.

I suggest Wilcox for the rear hatch because it does have the reinforced corners. In this case the OEM rear hatch weatherstripping was designed to fail. GC

[USAFPILOT]

Wilcox hatch wx strip on the way for 65.00. You can't beat that. He says even with the reinforced corners it can still tear and to glue it back with super glue gel. Any idea what that is? I know of plain superglue.

[rhipsher]

There it is partner.
http://www.supergluecorp.com/super-g...super-glue-gel

[mike100]

I gave up on having a perfect glued edge on the rear hatch weather strip and just broke down and used higher density ultra-black rtv to bond the piece into one loop permanently.

fill the voids/ joints with the rtv and then put a piece of ptfe or mold-release soaked saran wrap over the glue right before you close the glass hatch back over it. You can also use the bags that newspapers come in.