Hinge rubber

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement gasket for my hinges??

Steel Rubber, but have warning they are not cheap

you can get stick on ones from Chevy dealer

Steele's are $8.50 each, but work well.

Sweet Thanks!!!

I have seen the stick on ones on Taz's van and they do look good and 1/3 the price. No one other than a vintage van owner would know that you had 3rd parts on your van

Part # 12337944 They are only $2.20 a piece. I bought mine at
http://www.gmpartsdirect.com/
They came 5 in a package.
I am not going to pay $ 8.50 for a piece of rubber, I would used black silicone first.

Yeah I think I will go with the stick ons. I can get 15 for 47.00 or 12 from steel for 116.00

I am going to order those (stick ons) monday. Bill

Hey are you guys painting them or leaving them black??

leaving them black.

VH if you paint them it won't last

True,but since they were stick ons they would be easy to replace. Mine were painted and didn't know if that's how they came from the factory..

It will look cleaner and factory if they are not paint, plus not sure if the stick on ones have to have the hinges removed to put them on???

No, it has a splice,Funny,I was thinking about that after I ordered them--so I guess one more good reason to go with the stick ons...

If I had to do it over I would go with the stick on's. Seen them on Taz's van and they look great

I'm all for the stick-on version of these. It is definitely important to have these holes sealed, to keep the water from getting in and rusting out the bottoms of the doors and the body.

Doing it the way the factory did has its problems. To do it right you'd need to paint everything first, with the doors off, and then install the rubber, push the hinges through, and bolt the doors on. (Don told me that it was difficult to force the hinges into the new rubber.) And I am here to show that this is not the way Chevrolet did it.

These are photos of my 65 Sportvan, which still had its original paint. This van, along with every other I've seen, had paint on the rubber -- which is always peeling off because paint doesn't stick to rubber well.



I got the final proof when I removed a hinge and the rubbers and found rust underneath, which tells me they painted it with the rubbers in place, which would have been easier. The body and door panels were most likely primed before assembly, which is why these aren't totally rusted away.



Another thing I found interesting was that these two rubber seals were not the same. The one on the body only had a little bit of rubber on the inside but the door's was exactly the same on the inside as outside.

I have the stik on ones.
I recomend first after adjusting the door to fit correctly, fill the gap around the hinge with body caulking and smoth it off flush with the door skin. This will give aposative seal and a good flat surface for the rubber to stick to.



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I used the 3m weatherstripping adhesive on the back side of these since the sticky part is worthless.