two summers ago, i replaced the t-top seals on my car (but only on the car...not on the t-top itself) so for christmas i asked for the t-top only seals, as the back of the passenger side seal sprung a leak and during hard rain storms i'd find a small pond in the back of my car.

today i replaced the seals on the t-top itself, and i gave it a little 'false rain' (a.k.a. put the hose on the roof) and by golly, there is still a leak...i think i can see the problem and that is where the seals are supposed to butt together, there is just a little tiny gap there...

is there any way to patch this up other than buying a new passenger side t-top seal?
thanks,
-Brian

 

Did you seal everything up with the good 3M weatherstrip adhesive/sealer?

Always a good idea to check the tech articles... I see a T-Top weatherstrip install guide and a leak fix guide.

https://www.thirdgen.org/ttopleakfix
https://www.thirdgen.org/ttops

 

well i know where the problem is, and the problem is that the gap needs to be filled, and i don think that RTV will work....any other suggestions?

 

buy some 3M weatherstrip adhesive. It's not as thick as caulk so will run into the area that needs filling.

 

i have that, but that would work if i planned on gluing my t-tops down....the gap is in the back most right side of the passenger t-top seal...where the seal from the t-top itself meets the seal from the car itself....there is a gap between those two seals that needs to be filled somehow, preferably if i could actually pull the seals on the car out a little, that would fix it, but theyre glued in place with the 3M weather strip adhesive

 

i had the same problem before i put my car away for winter. i filled the hell out of that spot with chalking, now it doesn't leak there, but you cant open them up again without breaking the seal.

 

lol yeah thats the problem....i did that one winter before i changed the seals on the car itself...and man, even after i took the tops off, there was still residue on the seals and the tops....but that was also an attempt to try to see if i could build up RTV to try to make the seal a bit higher, i figured then it wouldnt leak....too bad in my stupidity i didnt realize that RTV never fully dries and that it stays kinda tacky lol....whoops, but me and my dad are going to try to figure a way to see if we can move the t-top seal on the car at all...i doubt it, but we'll see.......

 

you can try using a needle witha calking and filling those i guess numbs?full, maybe they will expand a bit, enough to seal.

 

can you post a pic of the gap? What brand weatherstripping did you buy?

 

i believe its OEM...i bought it from hawks...i will try to get a picture of it, it is a small gap though, i am bringing it to my dad's shop on monday so i'll try to get some pictures of it then

 

Most commonly, the t-top leak would be a door window that is out of adjustment, causing the glass to be too high vertically-which lifts up on the t-top window, causing a gap between t-top glass and the seal.

 

any updates?