Dealing with leaking windshield bottom gasket

[refit1701]

When we restored the truck, the windshield frame got all new rubber. The issue is the cowl is not uniformly smooth on top due to age or something else.

What have any of you done to prevent wet shoes inside the cab when it's raining? I do try to avoid driving in the rain but it does happen sometimes. My truck isn't like many WWII vehicle that can never get wet else they melt.

I've heard about layering blue tape on the cowl and filling the gap on the rubber gasket with black gasket compound. The frame is locked upright and the goop is allowed to cure. Then you remove the tape from the cowl and the plan is the caulk sticks to the gasket and seals the leaks.

Has anyone tried this? Or is there another solution. I did have a guy one suggest to move the gasket forward by a small amount.

[PoW]

I'd replace the stock weatherseal strip with a piece of Macklanburg-Duncan garage door bottom seal.

The profile is perfect, and is made of vinyl rather than rubber, meaning it will stay pliable forever.

It's even black, and for the $, you get enough to do two trucks.

It also does the front fender welt beautifully...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/M-D-03749-16 ... /290834228

PoW

[mike_l]

A little late but I use some of the foam rope sealer/caulk that you find in the store for drafts. It comes in different diameters so depending on the gap, you can find something that works. I started with the smallest diameter and worked my way up until it stopped the seepage. I just put the water hose on the windshield to test it. One long strip across the cowl, hinge to hinge, under the windshield seal, works fine. And unless you lay the windshield down, you don't know its there.

The problem now is the rubber seal on the inner windshields will let some water in at the corners. It is new rubber too but it still lets some water through. Nothing like it did before though.