1940 Wing vents

[Suzuki Joe]

howdy!

I have a couple of questions surrounding the wing vent windows for a 1940 Series 72.  Right now they are in the chrome shop to be polished/plated, but this is a complicated assembly with parts of this assembly being stainless, and parts are diecast:

1) several of the parts are rivited.  How do we go about seperating them, polishing/plating, then reattaching?
2) there is alot of rubber around the perimeter and it looks like it was vulcanized to the frame.  What do I do with this?  I can't tell if Steele Rubber has this piece, or does it have to be sent out to be revulcanized.

Any and all thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.

[Bill Hamilton, CLC#16219]

Joe,

Steele has both the main seal and division post seal for you car. About $140 for both windows. Neither is vulcanized to the door frame or divider post. The main seal is a pressed in fit. The divider seal requires removal of the main window run channel from the divider post to remove and install. I replaced all this on my 42 75 series car. If you have a 40's body manual it will show how to disassemble the frame from the actuator.

Bill Hamilton

[Don Boshara #594]

The upper pivot pin can be reattached with stainless or chrome plated brass flat head rivets which a good hardware store should have, and the lower one with pop rivets.