I got a good deal on the 1st Gen Hurst T Top seals from Amazon so I decided to order them. I read a lot of negative feedback but I decided to take a chance.
I'm not impressed with them. I had to do major surgery to get them in.
I pretty much knew I would have to cut the seal at the back of the window where it corners to go up the T Top so I was prepared for that. The seal was too long so I cut about 3/4 of and inch out.
Once that was done I used 3m weather strip glue and worked my way around the T Top over to the A pillar. That went pretty smooth.
Then I installed the A pillar portion of the seal. Luckily I waited to glue that section just to see how the window went up and down. This is where the problems started. The window would not go up all the way. The A pillar part of the seal doesn't have a channel in it for the window to slide in. It was basically just flat and the window sorta pinched it. After messing with it for a while the seal started to tear.
The major problem on this seal was the bottom part of it. It was waaaay to thick and it pushed the window out when rolling it up. The bottom part of the window ended up on the outside of the seal when it was rolled all the way up. I made some adjustments here and there but finally decided it wasn't going to work. I had pulled the old seal out of the T Top laying around so I put that in the A pillar and it worked pretty good so I cut the bottom of the new seal off and was going to glue an old section in so the window would roll up nice.
Here's the T Top seal on the left. My plan was to slide it up the channel and glue it at the T top and then to the bottom of the A pillar to the metro piece I had cut. Notice how flat the Metro seal is on the right. That's where the window is supposed to slide in to.
Here's the bottom of the new seal I cut.
This didn't work very well because the bottom chunk of the Metro seal just doesn't fit the car very well.
So in the end I just used the old A pillar seal and glued it to the Metro seal where the T top meets the A pillar.
Then I superglued the B pillar seal and I was done.
The T top fits decent over the new seal. It was a little tight but not bad. I haven't washed the car yet to check for leaks but it seems to fit nicely.
Sure looks a lot better than my old seals.
Maybe it's just my car and the way my windows are adjusted etc etc is why I had so much trouble?? I don't want to bash Metro products but my advise to anyone who is doing this make sure you save your original A pillar moldings when you remove them.
If you have to cut a seal to make it fit better just do it. The superglue bonds it back together instantly.
I haven't done the passenger side yet. I'm going to wait and see how good my work is on the drivers side so I can maybe learn a thing or two before I do the passenger side.
