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newly painted 1990 Volvo 245 wagon - needs tailgate window glass gasket (seal?)

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strackjack

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I have been slowly restoring my '90 Volvo 245. After several years it has finally been painted! Unfortunately I have the glass for the liftgate/tailgate window but I don't have the rubber trim surround? window seal? window gasket?

I have done some extensive searching and still am looking hard but I thought I'd check here while doing so.

would anyone here know of a source for this seal/gasket?

Thanks for your consideration!

Jack
Columbus, Ohio
 
strackjack said:
I have been slowly restoring my '90 Volvo 245. After several years it has finally been painted! Unfortunately I have the glass for the liftgate/tailgate window but I don't have the rubber trim surround? window seal? window gasket?

I have done some extensive searching and still am looking hard but I thought I'd check here while doing so.

would anyone here know of a source for this seal/gasket?

Thanks for your consideration!

Jack
Columbus, Ohio
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Sorry I forgot to read the rules for this forum

I bought the car back in early 2000s (it was originally a California car so it had almost no detectable rust!) and it was my daily driver for a couple decades .... slowly the Ohio winters and salted roads, and a leak in the tailgate caused rust to form mostly in the typical spots (under tailgate, rocker panels and some minor rust in the engine compartment).
With tremendous luck I became friends with a professional hot rod restorer who was great at welding. He was willing to take the project on in 2017! Unfortunately life happened and over the next 8 years he slowly fixed all the rust and turned it into a beautiful specimen!
The only barrier to getting it the next step (painted body) was my beautiful wife telling me the car had to run before she would let me paint it!

I could go into a lot of detail on all of my troubleshooting but let's leave it at I built a contraption to measure fuel pressure from the fuel rail (the 1990 doesn't have schrader valve port for an easy connection :-( ) and realized I needed a new fuel pump with a working check valve.

So it finally ran after almost 9 years of sitting in a couple garages! THAT was a great feeling! Now it's painted and I'd love to drive it back to my garage to assemble headlights, taillights, door handles, and reassemble the interior that all got disassembled during troubleshooting and then start to drive it again!

If anyone can help me figure out how to post a picture I can show you guys where it's at after the new paint job (and maybe a few in progress shots from the last decade's work

Thanks

Jack
 
On a 1990-1993 flush glass 240 tail gate there is no gasket. The window is set in butyl rubber window ribbon. You can buy it at any decent auto parts or auto paint store.
 
2manyturbos said:
On a 1990-1993 flush glass 240 tail gate there is no gasket. The window is set in butyl rubber window ribbon. You can buy it at any decent auto parts or auto paint store.
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So I've looked at images of the later style tailgate window and there seems to be a rubber trim surround that contacts both the flush body and glass - maybe I'm using the wrong terminology?? not the old chrome style but fits between body and glass while remaining flush between both???
 
There is a rubber/plastic edge around the glass, I think that it comes on the glass and not sold seperate. The window /glass in bonded to the hatch.
 
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