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TR2/3/3A Door bottom seal

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Folks,

My TR 3A has never had bottom door seals since I have owned it. I bought some from The Roadster Factory and installed one on the passenger door last night. (as a side note, TRF only sent enough clips for one door even though I ordered enough for both doors.)
Naturally, the door will not latch now. The strike plate on the door jamb is as far towards the outside of the car as it will go.

The seal is installed with the curved part toward the sill, which appears to be correct.

I helped a friend put a TR4 back together last year. As I recall, doors seals are on 3 sides of those doors. His doors would not shut either, so we ended up pulling the two doors together with a strap and letting it set for a week to compress the door seals around the perimeter.

Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks.
Ron
 
Leave it off. The OEM seals were very spongy, and collapsed a lot so the door would close. Sadly, none of the current repop seals will fit...assuming you still want to close your door with them on. A few have had luck slicing the new seals, but that is a stop gap at best. Water doesn't tend to come up in that direction, so leaving them off is the favored choice until the suppliers get their act together on these!
 
Installed door seals from Moss on both mine and a friends TR3. His is a 3b, same difference. No problem closing doors. Don't know about TRF seals but their products are normally excellent quality.
 
Looking through John's post above leads me to ask, where is Randall, TR3 driver? Anyone know?
Hope he has been rebuilding his Stags...
 
mrv8q said:
Looking through John's post above leads me to ask, where is Randall, TR3 driver? Anyone know?
Hope he has been rebuilding his Stags...
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I see him over on the "other" forum posting....sharing his "triumph experience"...

Cheers
Tush
 
Wait, what? There's another Triumph forum?
 
British cars; how we love them and hate them.

Two days after installing the new bottom door seal on the passenger door, and the door not comming close to shutting, I finally made it out to the garage to work on the Triumph again.
Of course, the door shut just fine without me doing a thing.

Ron.
 
I tried to install my glove box in the 60 TR3A today...couldn't get the door open as it was fouling on the grab bar...always something :cool:

Cheers
Tush
 
RonR said:
British cars; how we love them and hate them.

Two days after installing the new bottom door seal on the passenger door, and the door not comming close to shutting, I finally made it out to the garage to work on the Triumph again.
Of course, the door shut just fine without me doing a thing.

Ron.
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I guess the seal deflated?!?
 
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