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Reply to "Seeking advice regarding the weatherstripping for the Mangusta engine compartment"

OK, here's what I have on 878. Please do not take it as gospel....anytime that I do that....I'm wrong.....!

I have no "sponge" bulb type (hollow circle over flat mounting surface... that Nate shows on his flip up front engine cover edge) on my front horizontal body area to seal against the hatches at the gas tank or storage area, or either area at the rear near battery and jack storage.

I DO have 3/8" to 1/2" "hollow sponge" seals on the hatches on the front horizontal areas only where they come up against the body. None on the rear hatch areas.....

I have no seal across the tail lamp panel area, on the body or the hatches.

I do have a "hollow bulb sponge" seal across the "up and over" hatch to body sealing area above/around the rear cabin glass area. This is a larger version of the small pieces that are used in the front lower hatch edges.

I do have the plastic chrome-ish door edge guard in two pieces at the side horizontal hatch ares, and up and over the cabin rear window area as someone else illustrated above.

If you get a JC Whitney catalog and look on page 77 *roughly! in the Weatherstripping section Exterior Car, or look at it online, you will see a small section for "Replacement Sponge Rubber Weatherstripping....Stick On Installation." Item #2 is a bulb style listed as dimension A=11/16" (Width I believe) and dimension B=5/8" (Height I think)

If you check out item #3, a laying down D sort of shape, I have a mark next to this, but no note telling me what for..... I'm thinking that this could either be the seal for the engine hinged front cover or could be used for the up and over seal as an alternative. What bothers me is dim A=3/8" and dim B=5/8"...that doesn't seem right. I just looked at some of this that another local Gooser gave me, left over from his car...and it seems more like 3/4" to 7/8" wide by 5/8" tall. Again, lying down D sponge bulb style. Adhesive on flat side.....

There is also some PUSH ON TRIM WEATHERSTRIP that looks like it would work for the bulb seal at the hood to the radiator cover cross piece. Check out item #5. "Full top edge bulb" has A=11/16" and B=5/8" This seems tooo big... Good thing they mail out samples if you ask!

There is also a mark in my book next to #9 which is a "Side edge bulb (large)" with A=3/4" and B=3/4". This has the "clip" (metal reinforced- listed at 9/16" high by 1/2" wide...may be on the large side???) section on the side of the bulb, (where #5 has the clip on the bottom) and looks like it could be used for door opening seals, where the seal clips onto the body and then the door compresses the bulb against the metal clip area...

Check out the pictures and you will see what I mean. I hope.

JC Whitney is probably not the only game in town for this stuff....just what I was told and what I found.....

I would guess that if you came across an old Fiat or Alfa dealer, that they could have some of these bits in the original style!

Steve
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