31 minutes ago, Patcon said:

The car is freshly painted so that side is nice and clean

Then I would simply wipe it with some clean solvent, and then follow with a clean, dry wipe before the solvent dries, to ensure there is nothing but the fresh paint.

And of course a good wet wipe, dry wipe of the rubber stuff, with the alcohol. Don't use rubbing alcohol, it has too much water in it. Get isoprpoyl alcohol.

Then apply the adhesive to the car, and install the weatherstrip.  If done right, the weatherstrip should bond instantly, or within a few seconds, so be sure the placement is correct.

Edited November 26, 20204 yr by Racer X

I will see if I have a section I can test

I'd considered an old painting trick before the adhesive, Penetrol wipe down on the car's paint. Just a thought though, I like to study all the angles.

It's what the old timers used to paint signs on glass. It makes a slick surface tacky.

https://www.flood.com/products/paint-additives/penetrol-oil-based-paint-additive

Edited November 26, 20204 yr by siteunseen

Ok, so I have a little nugget for any other wagon owner out there...

So this is the factory gas cap. Pretty much unobtanium. The last one I saw a year or two ago in Japan for $350 or so

So this is what I'm working with

The cap is obviously very visible and it would be nice if It pretty much filled the space.

So I was googling around and I found a thread, I think it was on "The Realm" that mentioned a Stant gas cap.

A G26...so off to Ebay

It fits the filler neck fine and appears to seal

Once I had the G26 you can find the vehicles it is supposed to fit. 57'-61' Chrysler, Dodge, DeSoto, Plymouth station wagons. Bingo!!!

Then started looking for locking gas caps for those Marques

We have a WINNER!! Merry Xmas to Cody...

It has that factory applied red paint ring on it. It doesn't match and I may try to strip it off and polish it. We'll see after he gets it...

So let me tell you a little story...

Some time last summer, maybe June, we had a professional uphostery shop do Cody's headliner. They did a wizz poor job! Headliner made from scratch. Fabric was too thick, seams weren't great, sloppy install. It took forever for them to do it. Then we took it back to have them work on some problem areas. A few weeks later the glue was all letting loose. Panels all starting come loose around the window frames. We just cut our loses...

So I ordered a headliner off Ebay. It came in. We strung it up but it was too small. So I sent it back.

I bought one from Goliners on ebay. Jim is good to deal with but again it was too small. He told me these were made off of the factory template. Instead of sending it back again, I found a source for the same fabric and Shelley reworked it for me. Now the problem with this is, we don't have a commercial sewing machine. That makes it hard to feed through the machine and prevent slippage and such. Overall though it came out good. The problem we ran into was two fold. The wagon has a piece of metal at the rear of the roof and I'm pretty sure the headliner is supposed to wrap up and over this piece of metal. When I did that with the Ebay headliners, I would lose about 5/8". Then each panel of the headliner should be 11"s but the ones I purchased had random panel sizes 10 7/8, 10 5/8, 10 1/2. All these errors compound and when you get to the front of the car, you're an 1 1/2 too short. So we remade the panels we had too and Cody and I started the install maybe 3 weeks ago. We would have to do it in short sections and it takes a while for the glue to tack up, especially when it's cold outside. I used the Weldwood contact cement. The yellow 272 stuff I believe. I will run you out if your work space isn't ventilated, but it holds really good.

We started with the A & B pillars. I wrapped them over a little foam. Then when the headliner crosses them we folded a hem. We started at the back with the headliner at the metal flange glued it and stretch it to the side to tension it. Then we put all the meatl bows in and got them vertical. Lots of metal clips along the edges. We worked out way up the sides of the car. The front was also clipped and stretched. I had problems when I got to the front. I had wrinkles I couldn't get out. So I had to pull the drivers side above the front door loose and rework it to pull the excess out. To be my first headliner with bows, I think we did ok...

 

Now that the headliners in we have started working on glass, to make it water tight. Then I can kick his car back out of my shop and move "Lily" back in

We had a Datsun guy tell us one time, if we bought a headliner off Ebay we would mess with it for days, mess it up and then buy another one and take it to a professional...

Pfffftt!!

Nope, you can do it if you take your time and don't get in a rush and it might even be better than the professionals!!!

What a saga.  But perseverance and patience paid off.     I can tell you a similar story about a Black Pearl's strut tower black vinyl ...

Looks great Charles!    

Well Charles. Hat off to your paitence and soldering on. If it was me I think I would have invented a thew new words in the process.

The end result looks great.

Thanks guys. Slow progress but any progress right now is good. Cody wants to try to take it to Zcon in Colorado. He'll be 21 that week

Also I was looking at the stainless trim for the windshield and some of it is damaged, the bottom piece especially. Does anyone have some they would like to part with?

@zKars

@Terrapin Z

Is it the S30 stainless trim you can use for the 510 Charles?   If so, I can help you out.

It does look great, I have a headliner from Goliners for the 510 coupe hanging on my wall trying to get the wrinkles out, I haven't actually measured it yet so maybe I should.

15 hours ago, Patcon said:

Also I was looking at the stainless trim for the windshield and some of it is damaged, the bottom piece especially. Does anyone have some they would like to part with?

@zKars

@Terrapin Z

I have a bunch of Z stainless if that will work for you. I might have a source for 510 stainless I can check with if needed.