79cord
11-19-2006, 12:43 AM
Well in the absence of much else going on round here I thought I might as well say how I went & fitted an additional door seal to my Accord last month.
I had noticed that 2nd & 3rd gen Accords featured an additional door seal on the bodies weld flange around upper portion of the door opening where the earlier Accord has only a simple PVC extrusion to cover the s/metal edge so I figured I would fit one to mine as well.
Being a hatchback the seals only needed to be about the right length with a relatively sharp bend at the top rear corner of the door but preferably the inside pinch-weld flange portion should be colour matched to the interior of the car as the original extrusion was. Unfortunately this ruled out using 2nd/3rd gen seals which were only molded in black and used the interior & pillar trims to hide this fact.
A quick hunt around the wreakers & I spotted some late '80's Toyota passenger van (badged Tarago here) front door seals of the beige colour that I was after and was able to test fit them -perfect- seal running from door striker level up with the simpler extrusion continuing onward from both ends to hide under the door-sill step trims just as the Accords original extrusion did. -Though I did trim some of the extrusions inside ribbing off the ends to thin it slightly so it would fit under the step trims without forcing them.
Unfortunately(?) though the additional attention to the car has lead me to discover some small paint blistering on the lower underside of the A-pillar which further screwdriver poking has revealed to be a small rust hole so I guess there will be much more trim removal & attention to the area in the near future to tackle the problem before it gets out of hand -It's not allowed to rust -I want it to last forever- And thankfully this is actually the first rust ever to appear on the body -not counting another spot on the inside of the bonnet near the hinge which I attacked pretty thoughly a few years ago. When I also added a set of '81 frt wheel-arch liners which we didn't get here on '79's or earlier.
I've also had the need to adjust the clutch a few mm today as slippage was getting somewhat aukward climbing a hill yesterday & I've been noticing it under hard acceleration for a while now. 242,000 km on the original clutch -hope that's all it will need.
I had noticed that 2nd & 3rd gen Accords featured an additional door seal on the bodies weld flange around upper portion of the door opening where the earlier Accord has only a simple PVC extrusion to cover the s/metal edge so I figured I would fit one to mine as well.
Being a hatchback the seals only needed to be about the right length with a relatively sharp bend at the top rear corner of the door but preferably the inside pinch-weld flange portion should be colour matched to the interior of the car as the original extrusion was. Unfortunately this ruled out using 2nd/3rd gen seals which were only molded in black and used the interior & pillar trims to hide this fact.
A quick hunt around the wreakers & I spotted some late '80's Toyota passenger van (badged Tarago here) front door seals of the beige colour that I was after and was able to test fit them -perfect- seal running from door striker level up with the simpler extrusion continuing onward from both ends to hide under the door-sill step trims just as the Accords original extrusion did. -Though I did trim some of the extrusions inside ribbing off the ends to thin it slightly so it would fit under the step trims without forcing them.
Unfortunately(?) though the additional attention to the car has lead me to discover some small paint blistering on the lower underside of the A-pillar which further screwdriver poking has revealed to be a small rust hole so I guess there will be much more trim removal & attention to the area in the near future to tackle the problem before it gets out of hand -It's not allowed to rust -I want it to last forever- And thankfully this is actually the first rust ever to appear on the body -not counting another spot on the inside of the bonnet near the hinge which I attacked pretty thoughly a few years ago. When I also added a set of '81 frt wheel-arch liners which we didn't get here on '79's or earlier.
I've also had the need to adjust the clutch a few mm today as slippage was getting somewhat aukward climbing a hill yesterday & I've been noticing it under hard acceleration for a while now. 242,000 km on the original clutch -hope that's all it will need.