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Actually took me all day but got it done, back in the car, adjusted.....PERFECT!

I had called the company that makes the rust converter I used because after I began using it I happened to read that I should let it cure for 24 hours. I didn’t have that much time. They told me that if I had 8 hours of cure time I could use adhesive on it, so I just got though finishing it just awhile ago. I let the stuff cure in the sun most of the day. Anyway, it was a bear....so much rust....unbelievable. The leak was from between the glass and metal frame that the glass is mounted on, not the weather stripping. I had bought a new one from a member here, but I believe I could have used the old one over again. The rust was so bad that the metal frame was literally coming apart.

Anyway, took the frame off, blasted it with a metal eating wheel attached to a drill, used the rust converter, let it dry and cure and then used 3M super weather stripping adhesive to glue everything back together and seal the metal frame before mounting the glass back on and then the weather stripping. It's hard to tell in the car that such extensive work was done on the sunroof.

I suppose the most labor intensive part was getting the weather stripping on good and tight...I have blisters on my thumbs from pushing it on the glass. Oh yeah, another PITA thing was adjusting the sunroof once it was back in the car....about an hour of screwing and unscrewing and adjusting the height of the glass on one corner and then another. I did find a short-cut to this near the end of the procedure which makes me think I could do the adjustment now in just a few minutes.

If anyone wants to struggle through this, let me know. It isn't really that hard and I'll be more than happy to help any way I can. Sorry, no pictures, but a guy over on swedespeed shared his pictures and mine were about the same has his.