The original style of seal is a cloth covered furflex with a rubber flap attached. The furflex with the tube is not correct for either Tigers or Alpines. The original profile is shown on plate F - section YX of the parts book.
I think you have the wrong seal. Sean said he knows how the furflex one on the pinch weld is finished with the rubber cap.
I have a friend with an unrestored cross body MkI. The seals were all original when we started to recommision it in. 2012... I can't recall if he ended up replacing the seals on the screen side.. they were all dry... I'll ask.
My suggestion is to check the pictures on page 20 in the Sunbeam Specialties catalog or pull out an original parts book. The seal that was fitted to the windshield frame was a flap style ( shown in the Rootes part book on Plate F - Section YX as number 128) . Original seals at time of production were not a tube. The seal that pushed onto the pinch weld and runs down to the sill is number 319. That was also a flap style seal with the furflex part being cloth covered and was riveted near where it turns under the body / windshield. If not riveted it will pop loose. This piece is the one that had the metal cut out at the top with the cloth being tucked down into the area where the metal was removed. This allowed the cap ( number 336 ) to be pushed down and secured to the pinch weld covering the top of the furflex. I do have a set of original red NOS seals stashed away in the shop as well as the original pieces that were on my green car. I can take a photo some time.
Again Bob.. didn't say it had a tube seal.. not taking about the furflex seal with the blade rubber....
Please do. Thanks. I am doing the same area of my car and the more information, the better.
I'll take some photos also.
Not the original..the original is furflex and had a blade seal and went up the screen. The rubber cap finisher goes on the top of the seam at the top of the screen.
no. the very top where the seal terminates at the w/s top corner...
In's NOT the outer seal that's attached with screws, it's the INNER seal that gets installed over the pinch weld.
There wasn't a finisher for the top of the rubber seal. The rubber section of the furflex was a flap that will tuck in behind the flap of the seal secured to the windshield frame. This makes it look like a tube. If you check the parts book you'll find that both the seal on the windshield and the furflex that clipped onto the pinch weld originally were handed and have different part numbers for the left side and the right side. The cap covered the cloth piece but since the rubber seal attached to the furflex moves due to the wing window pushing against the flap on the piece attached to the windshield Rootes must have determined that there wasn't a solution to seal the top of the rubber attached to the furflex. I have some old original furflex that has maybe an inch or more of the bottom cloth covered section cut off where it bottoms out on the sill pinch weld which allowed the rubber flap to hang down over the sill and allowed the rubber flap to hang down to channel water out instead of running inside the car. There was not a rubber seal attached to the furflex running from front to back on the sill pinch weld. I couldn't take photos today because the batteries in my camera are on charge.
