Sky has a new mot

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andydna

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Commertastic! Skye sailed through the MOT this week. A few weekends of snagging presented issues. She has had a little help from the dremmel, taking some of those bubbles back to real metal and treating. So progress to date is. Seal windscreen (Found this 80's can of stuff called COMMA), New windscreen wipers, Door weather strips, Fit new 2nd user quarterlights, and rebuild seals, Remove clean and make good heat exchange and metal thingy, New washer jets, Make gutters function more effectivly, remove bubbles above gutter + respray above gutter, remove door cards and lubricate winding and locking mechanisms.

Mostly work is around waterproofing her as to prevent future problems, It helped being trapped in her a few weeks ago is a huge downpour, thus finding most of the leaks.

1/ Does anyone know the best way (Cheapest excluding gaffer) of restoring / reconditioning the side sliding windows? She is a Haylett Olympian

2/ There are a couple of holes in the pop top plastic window part, are there specialists that can fix these?

Thanks for continued support / supplying parts and helping resolve issues.

Andy and Sarah
 
Is good to know she is in good hands [8D]
I am sure you can buy stuff from camping & caravan shops to fix holes in plastic windows.
What is wrong with the side sliding windows ? need a pic of the offending window :)

Sybhil & no1
 
I am presuning sliding windows on side of van ?
http://66.129.69.181/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1127&SearchTerms=sliding,windows

Sybhil & no1
 
Hi



I think the offending leak is the vertical rubber seal on the side sliding windows (front and back), the water runs down, in and forms a capillary action through the u channel into the van. It was very heavy rain, and I found another three offending leaks (All now solved). I also took the dremel to the lower holes on the window frame giving them a little more slope to assist with run off.

So the real question is how to source and fit these seals. They seem to be squeezed into the ali frame.

Think i was lucky with Skye as she had obviously been well looked after!

Regards, Andy
 
Talking about capillary action, this stuff is brilliant for sealing hard to find leaks, it'll sort your problem easily, I used it on my windscreen rubber with no mess;), got mine off ebay

www.captaintolley.com
 
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