Re: Hood Seal Channel - Need Pic

Oct 15, 2005 4 Replies

Never mind.



Cruising through the neighborhood tody, I saw a resto in a guy's garage, and I stopped and looked at it.



If anyone cares, the seal channel just stops a the top of the corner, and starts again at the bottom. The seal takes care of itself, with no channel in the corner itself.


Yeah, okay. So I chopped out all the old rusty hood seal channel on my 72
> standard beetle and pitched it before I thought about taking a picture of it
> or paying any attention to how it went in. Now I don't know how it made the
> transition from the top piece along the windshield to the pieces going down
> along the top of the fenders. >:
>
> Can someone post a pic of how the corners are done?
>
> I attached a pic of where it is I'm talking about, but it's the corners,
> near the right & left edges of the car, right in front of the windshield. >
>
>
>

...........The seal has three fingers(?) at each corner that are supposed to be pulled through corresponding holes at the corners until they're locked in place.

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Those holes were filled in with bodyfiller on my 68 beetle, after a bit of poking I found 2 of them on each side.

Ahh. Excellent. I didn't glean this from the quick look I took. I have holes too. I bet if I went out and looked at the new seal, I'd see the fingers.

Thanks to both of you.

..............It's not that often that I get to offer anything helpful here. Thank you for asking a question that gave me the chance!

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