Door: Rubber Seals and Wetaher Stripping

[ntistnt]

I have a 2000 Ford Expedition Interceptor XLT 5.4L AWD that has a lot of wind noise. I am looking to replace the weather stripping and rubber seals. Not looking to pay dealer prices. Anyone have a good source or some part numbers and manufacturers I can look up?

Thanks,

Norm

 

[ELVATO]

Tascaparts.com has them, but they're still expensive, 40-50 per part.

 

[ntistnt]

Yikes

Thanks! Think a trip to a junk yard might revela some replacement parts worthy of salvage? Or would I be wasting my time? Better to go with new?

Looks like about 80-100 per door if I read the diagram and parts list right.

 

[ELVATO]

Are yours disintegrating, or what? Salvage yard is always a good idea. Never know what you may find. If you can find a good donor car, you could find other random, cheap tidbits.

 

[ntistnt]

Not desinigrating.

I just get a lot of wind noise from around the drivers side and passenger front doors. If I pull in slightly on the door the wind noise goes away. could it be something is simply out of adjustment? The seals seem to be fine no checking, cracking, etc. a bit stiff but that is about it. I also think that since this old girl was an ex Fresno County Sherriff Cruiser that the dual through the door jam spot lights on both sides are also causing part of the wind noise problem. I'm really just trying to find a solution for that.

 

[ntistnt]

Junk Yard

Quoted me $35 for complete set minus 1 right door seal already salvaged. Should I take em. any adjustments or secrets to eliminating the wind noise.

Seals seem to be fine. If I heated up what I have and tried to reshape it a abit would that work its only out by an 1/8 inch or so that is causing the king noise. Any suggestions besides new or used seals.

 

[Flyin700]

Are you missing any of the round rubber stoppers/bushings in the door itself? I was missing a few of them and the tops of the doors kept bending out of shape making the top of the door stick out further. This was creating the wind noise coming from the top. I bent the door by pushing on the bottom (from the inner side) and pulling in the top. I need to get a few more. Gremlins must be stealing them. My 2007 F350 has the same loud wind noise but not as bad as the Expy.

 

[Rockunlimited2]

pull off the weather stripping and run some surgical tubing inside of the striping. It will add slight pressure to the seal and seal the door. I used an electrical snake and wd 40 to get it to slide in. There is a vid on youtube of a guy who did the same thing.


EDIT: Sorry, this is 6 months old. my bad.

 

[hardlife]

Old or not still usefull info. Thanks.

 

[KWT2000]

check LMC truck they have stuff for tehe 1st gen expy's as well as jc whitney im not sure of the quality from jc thou

 

[Rockunlimited2]

Tascaparts.com has them, but they're still expensive, 40-50 per part.

I oreded from Tascaparts.com on 2/21. They took my money on 2/22, then sent me an eamil saying they could not find my VIN, I confirmed the VIN on my dash, in the door frame, and on my insurance card. I replyed three times with the VIN on three seperate emails. They then told me that I needed another part # and it would be $15 more. This is after they told me they could not find my VIN. How would they find a "Correct part #" if they could not find my VIN, and why does their site show the exact part and part number that I ordered for the part I need. Stay away from these rip-off-artists. I will be filing a claim with Pay-Pal and posting on evey forum I can fine. Hopefully I can cost them thousands in parts sales.

 

[Rockunlimited2]

See my other Tasca thread. Josh from Tasca got this issue fixed. The surgical tubing would have worked, but I ripped the outside of the weather strip on one of the corners, now the rattle is still gone, but the wind noise is bad. just ordered a new one.

 

[clok1966]

recently did all this with mine. The tubing inside the old weatherstrip helped but didnt eliminat the noise. As if you pull in the top of door and it get 'less" ad my weather stirip was all good I used a hint from here of some other f-150 board. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE OF YOUR ABILITY--- this could damage the door-----

take a motorcycle tie down ratchet strap,roll down your window. connect the strat pat top front corner of door, run it to the door latch on passanger door (or something in that area that is EXTREMELY SOLID then close the effected door on a basketball (or something that wont damage the car or door) but will keep it open 6-10 inchs.. then slowly tweek the top of the door by ratching the strap tight.. this is VERY slow carefull work.. you will need to go past where you want oyur end resault to be. My door required the top to be pulled in les then thickness of 2 quarters.. but it made all the differance in the world.. no wind wistle at all like passanger side now..

AGAIN-- THIS CAN DAMAGE DOOR BADLY IF DONE WRONG so be carefull if you attempt it..

 

[Gr4ck3L]

Haha, I know its old ^^^, but I like where this is going.