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Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:49 am

I am currently fitting my CE safaris.

Has anyone used anything other than silicon to seal the hinge of their safaris to the bus to prevent water sitting there?

I am fitting mine using the original VW method with the captive nut plate in the the window frame, VW used some sealing tape which I don't think was sticky to prevent water getting in.

I don't want to use silicon as I know it will be a pain to remove the windows when I come to repaint my bus.....

I will phone Dave to see if he can suggest anything at some point but just wondered if anyone else had a bright idea that they used and found to work well.

Regards
Paul

Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:50 pm

i used some type of polyurathane goo that stays flexible.... but it is not like silicone. it is black and worked very well. I actually had to remove one of my safaris once installed, and it looked like it would have sanded off fine.

Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:19 pm

I had a huge problem fitting the C.E. safaris in my '58 singlecab.
If you have an early bus (61 and older) you may find that a seal between the body and hinge is not an option.

Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:02 pm

Paul_F;

no idea how CE safari hinges are....

OG ones have counter sunk holes and use counter sunk fine thread screws-threaded plate inside upper windshiled frame.

Here is a pic of a pearl white OG pair of safari's without the cloth tape.
Also a Turq OG pair of safari's with the OG cloth/clay tape still in place.

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/65999.jpg

I hope that might help.

Wed Aug 06, 2003 7:32 pm

ezcamper wrote: i used some type of polyurathane goo that stays flexible.... but it is not like silicone. it is black and worked very well. I actually had to remove one of my safaris once installed, and it looked like it would have sanded off fine.

Door rubber gasket adhesive

Thu Aug 07, 2003 1:13 am

The Creative windows can be installed the same way as OG ones, and this is the way I wanted to do it (you have to specifically ask for the parts)

Still haven't got round to speaking to Dave Palmer, but I will try to make time today.....

The cloth/clay tape looks good, but no idea where I could get some from????

So is door rubber gasket adhesive this polyurathane goo then? Got any brand names I should look for? Something like sikaflex?? - though I think that is for bonding on panels to cars, and I think that would make it very difficult to remove the safaris.

Thanks
Paul