Grats on your purchase. Only advice I can give is take your time with your build / repairs and do it right the first time. Oh and research, research, research.
Nice man, just be careful leaning / pushing on your door when it’s open like that. Can warp the hinges and when you try to close it the latch won’t line up right anymore and you’ll have to lift the door to get it to shut. Don’t ask how I know haha.
Getting ready to tackle this project on my '86 Trans Am, this info is beyond valuable. I look forward to binging the other episodes in this repair series, looking forward to tackling my own project car in a much better informed state thanks to the info.
Just had to say thanks! I replaced the interior upper plastic trim piece on my door panels and was having a hell of a time getting the panel to sit back into the top rail when putting them on. Then I noticed that you sort of slid it into place around the 15 minute mark. That was the trick! Thanks!
My passenger side the window was crack from the screws hitting it due to now having the window seal so thanks for loading this video up. Very helpful..Dallas tx .,
I got to say man I love that color I was thinking about buying me one with the same color but I ended up getting a blue one. Started watching this channel for the beard reviews and the tips and stuff and then found out you started doing Camaro videos around the time that I bought one.
It turned out perfect. I took my time and I had my mind right before I started! I also did the t top trim and weather stripping. My camaro had a 305 I put in a built up 350 thats around 500 hp. Put in posi with 3.73 gears. All new red leather interior. Stuck alot of $ in it. Not a spot of rust.
Great series. I had a 1986 Z28 so all your videos bring back good memories. I know you said you would have the T-Tops off most of the time but....any idea on how to fix leaking T-Tops? That was the problem with my Camaro.
My 1990 IROC had a short that made the door locks go on and off at will and the windows would go up and down at the same time with the locks . I had to pull the fuse to make the madness stop . Wish I did not sell it though loved that car .
I have a 88 IROCZ 5.7 in the garage. Good luck. Spohn.net hands down best suspension and anything else they make. Hawks third gen will have pretty much everything else. Dream big.
This was good. Wish I saw this before I replaced mine on my firebird. Another way to get those pesky bolts is there is a rubber "stopper" at the bottom of the window. If you remove this you can lower the window even lower. I figured this out because apparently my passenger side stopper is missing and it was easy as fuck to replace the sweep on that side. And I could not figure out why the driver door window wouldn't go lower. Took my slow brain forever to figure it out but once I did i think it was a bit easier than your way and no risk of damaging the glass. Props!
I bought donor doors for my 91 camaro with much better parts, the donors were from an 87 and they used phillips head screws to hold in the outer window sweeps. Not sure if that comes stock like that for an 87 but I swapped out all the screws in place of the little hex screws, much easier to get them in if you don't already own a ratchet wrench :)
Got my camaro a few weeks ago it’s a 87 iroc-z all original. I bought it for $1200 which was a total steal. Doing a carpet kit right now. I use this stuff called vpr by chemical guys it works amazingly for all sorts of rubbers and plastics.
Been working on my Sons car for about a year now. He died in a car wreck in 2008. The drives side window works however the inside us gutted. The passenger door is fine but the window doesn't work. GR8 video. TY for any and all info.
Do you have an insta page or somewhere where I can see how the sweeps fit when you installed them? I ordered some from Classic and don't like the fitment. They don't cover as the old ones did
The outer sweeps are an absolute pain in the butt. I just did my passenger door yesterday and Mine has Phillips head screws I had to take a tiny stubby Phillips bit and a ratchet wrench to loosen the bolts. I used the sweeps from Fairchild and non of the holes lined up. A bit annoying honestly
Need some advice on switching out the inner window sweeps. They're no designed to be removed, it appears. If anyone has done these, let me know. Not finding any info out there. I bought a full set of 4, and figured might as well swap them all.
There are (2) different types.. One with the SMALLER HEAD and the other with a LARGER head.. I didn't know that and ended up buying what turned out to by the SMALLER heads and luckily the ebay seller gave me my money back after I notified him of the 2 versions.
What BRAND did you get? I've read that Fairchild are the BEST opposed to actual NOS but the Fairchilds TEAR at the seam as they glue corners to the rubber weather stripping that goes along the door. Any update?
I don't remember which brand I got. I honestly didn't even know there was more than one brand making reproduction third gen sweeps. I'll have to look into that. Mine are actually ruined now and have to be replaced due to what I'm going to talk about in the next camaro video. No fault of the manufacturer though
Hey hopefully you still respond to these comments but, do you know where you got those sweeps and seals, i got mine for rpui by softseal and they came out garbage, the sweeps dont align proerly with the holes and the rubber seals are too thick which caused my door to not close right. I wanna know where you got yours
mine came from hawks motorsports. Hawks used to be just third gen camaro stuff, but now they have a bunch of car stuff. Their third gen stuff is usually really great
@@Daniel-jl6vc yessir. One thing to be careful of is if you get the outer door seals, the ones that go around the bottom, if you decide to do those I would go to 1A auto for those. The 1A auto ones have plastic reinforcement like the oem ones, and the hawks ones don't as far as I know of
@@beardedreviews thanks for the headsup. I dont mind if it doesnt have the plastic. At this point all i care is that my door closes. I ordered some from hawks about an hr ago. So hopefully they arrive soon. Thanks for the advice much appreciated.
I installed the door weather stripping and I have to say that was one of the WORST INSTALLS I've had to do. NOTHING correctly lined up! The plastic rivets were out and required you to STRETCH the weather stripping to line up to the next hole. Basically all of them had to be installed or the rivets would start to pull right out of the weather stripping itself. The WORST PART is the weather stripping at the top towards the inner door. The rubber is SO THICK it was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to push it where it needed to go and then that caused 2 of the rivets to pull away. I gobbed on black RV silicone and QUICKLY put the door panel back together and closed the door hoping if I leave it closed for a week that it will harden and STICK the weatherstripping to the door. The door is SO DIFFICULT to close, almost to the point that you could bend the door panel pushing the door.. 1. How was your install? 2. Was it difficult to close? (requiring HARD SHUTTING) 3. If so, how long did it take before you can actually shut it normally or is that PERMANENT NOW???
Is there a difference between the sweeps for camaros and trans 3rd gen? I ordered them but seems like the holes on the door are a bit lower and the last hole by the door handle is off by half an inch to the left
@Johnny Thornton ultimately had to drill 2 holes on the outside sets as they were off by a bit. Make sure to save the old sweeps to measure out the holes as on one of mine I threw out before I realized. These are the "best fitting" between two sets I've bought. The other from Rockauto had all the holes misaligned these had more holes matching up.
Alright thanks for the reply I ended up ordering a set of inner and outters from firebird centrel they were like 10 dollars more but I figured the gotta be the right ones
@Johnny Thornton you would think! Lol I hope they fit. If you are doing weather stripping as well, I recommend staying away from the ones that look "bubbly" at the ends. Causing my doors not to shut properly. Trying to figure out what i can do without spending extra $
For sure cheaper is better if it works I’m just doing top felts and those vertical triangle things the car sat in storage most of its life the door seals themselves are actually still nice guess felts just cracked and dried out
@@beardedreviews my Firebird needs it. You made it seem pretty easy to get it loose. I was just looking for some insight into getting the trim off and back on. Thanks a TON for the videos. They're super helpful.
Im 17 years old and I just bought a 91 chevy camaro rs as my first car ! So these videos are awesome !
Grats on your purchase. Only advice I can give is take your time with your build / repairs and do it right the first time. Oh and research, research, research.
Nice, how much did you pick yours up for?
Same but I’m 16 and mine is a 89
Congratulations check out my 91 on my channel
I’ve gotta 91 RS too
Nice man, just be careful leaning / pushing on your door when it’s open like that. Can warp the hinges and when you try to close it the latch won’t line up right anymore and you’ll have to lift the door to get it to shut. Don’t ask how I know haha.
Getting ready to tackle this project on my '86 Trans Am, this info is beyond valuable. I look forward to binging the other episodes in this repair series, looking forward to tackling my own project car in a much better informed state thanks to the info.
Super Helpful!! Thank You for all these videos. I , too, have a 91 and am going to watch all your clips.
Thank you. You’re the only person on CZcams who took the time to explain that step. 4:44 time stamp. You’re a real one for that.
Just had to say thanks! I replaced the interior upper plastic trim piece on my door panels and was having a hell of a time getting the panel to sit back into the top rail when putting them on. Then I noticed that you sort of slid it into place around the 15 minute mark. That was the trick! Thanks!
Very helpful staff you have there! Thanks so much!
Working on my 91t-top z28 and looking to replace the entire seals and weather-stripping. Going to be a real pain. Thanks for the video.
Love the Camaro vids!!! Hopefully I'll be picking one up in the next few days!
I’m 17 and just got an 87 iroc z28 as a first car. This door panel removal demonstration saved me like 10 hours
oh man thank god i found this channel
Awesome tutorial! Was looking forward to how it sounded closing the door!
I’m 15 years old and I just got a 95 Chevy camaro so these vids really help out a lot
and great am I going to have fun doing this! but so happy i watched this I'm going to need those clips and a few tools
Awesome Video! Subscribed because I’ll need all this Info when I’m ready to paint ! Thanks !
ohhhh i brought mine last week , good timing now i can watch how you do it =D
My passenger side the window was crack from the screws hitting it due to now having the window seal so thanks for loading this video up. Very helpful..Dallas tx .,
glad it was helpful man!
I just bought a 89 firebird so I'm grateful for people like you
Hey I'm just glad the video is helpful!
Just did this on my 90 makes the car look much better. Have to rip it apart again cause my door handle snapped off lol.
I got to say man I love that color I was thinking about buying me one with the same color but I ended up getting a blue one. Started watching this channel for the beard reviews and the tips and stuff and then found out you started doing Camaro videos around the time that I bought one.
These are the best camaros to ever exist, You got good taste man!!
Excellent video, really helpful and saves me a lot of time and possibly damage. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful for you!
Great video very informative before I try it on my 3rd gen 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Oh my man thanks for this one
Good job!
Nice! When I was 18 I bought a 1987 camaro in the summer of "95" I still have it.
Don't let it go man! I bet you got a smokin deal on it :)
It turned out perfect. I took my time and I had my mind right before I started! I also did the t top trim and weather stripping. My camaro had a 305 I put in a built up 350 thats around 500 hp. Put in posi with 3.73 gears. All new red leather interior. Stuck alot of $ in it. Not a spot of rust.
Hope all is well, any updates on the camaro project. Really enjoy the updates
Great series. I had a 1986 Z28 so all your videos bring back good memories. I know you said you would have the T-Tops off most of the time but....any idea on how to fix leaking T-Tops? That was the problem with my Camaro.
My 1990 IROC had a short that made the door locks go on and off at will and the windows would go up and down at the same time with the locks . I had to pull the fuse to make the madness stop . Wish I did not sell it though loved that car .
I have a 88 IROCZ 5.7 in the garage. Good luck. Spohn.net hands down best suspension and anything else they make. Hawks third gen will have pretty much everything else. Dream big.
This was good. Wish I saw this before I replaced mine on my firebird. Another way to get those pesky bolts is there is a rubber "stopper" at the bottom of the window. If you remove this you can lower the window even lower. I figured this out because apparently my passenger side stopper is missing and it was easy as fuck to replace the sweep on that side. And I could not figure out why the driver door window wouldn't go lower. Took my slow brain forever to figure it out but once I did i think it was a bit easier than your way and no risk of damaging the glass.
Props!
Nice! Never thought of that
Thank You Dude!
glad it was helpful man!
I bought donor doors for my 91 camaro with much better parts, the donors were from an 87 and they used phillips head screws to hold in the outer window sweeps. Not sure if that comes stock like that for an 87 but I swapped out all the screws in place of the little hex screws, much easier to get them in if you don't already own a ratchet wrench :)
U are the man bro thanks!!!
Got my camaro a few weeks ago it’s a 87 iroc-z all original. I bought it for $1200 which was a total steal. Doing a carpet kit right now. I use this stuff called vpr by chemical guys it works amazingly for all sorts of rubbers and plastics.
Yea I actually used to use VPR on my tires for like a mild shine
@@beardedreviews yeah same here works like a charm and looks great!
Hi buddy, good videos, hey any idea what ttop seal can I use, what's better to fit Camaros ?
Finally got my hands on a 3rd gen I’m so excited 😭😭
you'll love it man!! Great looking cars!
Love this vids
Been working on my Sons car for about a year now. He died in a car wreck in 2008. The drives side window works however the inside us gutted. The passenger door is fine but the window doesn't work. GR8 video. TY for any and all info.
Wait is it the car that he died in that you're working on?
Do you have an insta page or somewhere where I can see how the sweeps fit when you installed them? I ordered some from Classic and don't like the fitment. They don't cover as the old ones did
I’m 15 with a 86 Camaro, do you think these weather strip screw holes will line up?
Can I get a link to the clips on Amazon? Just ordered some new upper door panels and would like the clips before I start the project.
Hey do you know what those small thing holding the trim and panel together are called.
How did you do the interior sweeps attached to the panel?
hey man did you end up having to buy a bumper for your rs? just picked up a 3rd gen rs as well and shes missing a good few parts
What clips did you use? There are so many different sizes on Amazon
Thanks bud. Mine are shot too.
Do manual windows go lower below the bolts?
These cars are JUUUUUUUUNK
dont you dare!!!
So you don't have to use sealant on the door seals?
Can you post a link to the clips?
The outer sweeps are an absolute pain in the butt. I just did my passenger door yesterday and Mine has Phillips head screws I had to take a tiny stubby Phillips bit and a ratchet wrench to loosen the bolts. I used the sweeps from Fairchild and non of the holes lined up. A bit annoying honestly
Does he have a 305 with throttle body on it?
Link for the door push clips?
Need some advice on switching out the inner window sweeps. They're no designed to be removed, it appears. If anyone has done these, let me know. Not finding any info out there. I bought a full set of 4, and figured might as well swap them all.
I got a 92 in arctic white
I’m still searching for the complete wiring, relay, front kick panel carpeted speakers, rear deck speakers and BOSE GOLD head unit
Hawks or Rick's Camaro
Did you forget to link to amazon those packets of door clips?
There are (2) different types.. One with the SMALLER HEAD and the other with a LARGER head.. I didn't know that and ended up buying what turned out to by the SMALLER heads and luckily the ebay seller gave me my money back after I notified him of the 2 versions.
What BRAND did you get? I've read that Fairchild are the BEST opposed to actual NOS but the Fairchilds TEAR at the seam as they glue corners to the rubber weather stripping that goes along the door.
Any update?
I don't remember which brand I got. I honestly didn't even know there was more than one brand making reproduction third gen sweeps. I'll have to look into that. Mine are actually ruined now and have to be replaced due to what I'm going to talk about in the next camaro video. No fault of the manufacturer though
@@beardedreviews Oh sorry, I wasn't referring to the sweeps but rather the weather stripping you installed at the end of the video :-)
Hey brother all my lights work but my headlight I change all my fuses is there another secret I don't know.. can u help if possible
you are also at BeardTube. Are both these your channels?
Good video, mine are so bad..
Good job !!! I just did the door weatherstripping this weekend. I just got thru painting my 92 black. That was a lot of work. Check out my build
are those seals actually called seal felts?
Hey hopefully you still respond to these comments but, do you know where you got those sweeps and seals, i got mine for rpui by softseal and they came out garbage, the sweeps dont align proerly with the holes and the rubber seals are too thick which caused my door to not close right. I wanna know where you got yours
mine came from hawks motorsports. Hawks used to be just third gen camaro stuff, but now they have a bunch of car stuff. Their third gen stuff is usually really great
@@beardedreviews you got both your weather seals and window sweeps from hawks motorsports?
@@Daniel-jl6vc yessir. One thing to be careful of is if you get the outer door seals, the ones that go around the bottom, if you decide to do those I would go to 1A auto for those. The 1A auto ones have plastic reinforcement like the oem ones, and the hawks ones don't as far as I know of
@@beardedreviews thanks for the headsup. I dont mind if it doesnt have the plastic. At this point all i care is that my door closes. I ordered some from hawks about an hr ago. So hopefully they arrive soon. Thanks for the advice much appreciated.
I did this a few weeks ago. Pain. In. The. Ass.
I installed the door weather stripping and I have to say that was one of the WORST INSTALLS I've had to do.
NOTHING correctly lined up! The plastic rivets were out and required you to STRETCH the weather stripping to line up to the next hole. Basically all of them had to be installed or the rivets would start to pull right out of the weather stripping itself.
The WORST PART is the weather stripping at the top towards the inner door. The rubber is SO THICK it was EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to push it where it needed to go and then that caused 2 of the rivets to pull away. I gobbed on black RV silicone and QUICKLY put the door panel back together and closed the door hoping if I leave it closed for a week that it will harden and STICK the weatherstripping to the door.
The door is SO DIFFICULT to close, almost to the point that you could bend the door panel pushing the door..
1. How was your install?
2. Was it difficult to close? (requiring HARD SHUTTING)
3. If so, how long did it take before you can actually shut it normally or is that PERMANENT NOW???
Is there a difference between the sweeps for camaros and trans 3rd gen? I ordered them but seems like the holes on the door are a bit lower and the last hole by the door handle is off by half an inch to the left
I was about to order these for my 1984 trans am did they work?
@Johnny Thornton ultimately had to drill 2 holes on the outside sets as they were off by a bit. Make sure to save the old sweeps to measure out the holes as on one of mine I threw out before I realized. These are the "best fitting" between two sets I've bought. The other from Rockauto had all the holes misaligned these had more holes matching up.
Alright thanks for the reply I ended up ordering a set of inner and outters from firebird centrel they were like 10 dollars more but I figured the gotta be the right ones
@Johnny Thornton you would think! Lol I hope they fit. If you are doing weather stripping as well, I recommend staying away from the ones that look "bubbly" at the ends. Causing my doors not to shut properly. Trying to figure out what i can do without spending extra $
For sure cheaper is better if it works I’m just doing top felts and those vertical triangle things the car sat in storage most of its life the door seals themselves are actually still nice guess felts just cracked and dried out
If you have an 82 Camaro. You will hate your life trying to get off the triangle piece. Engineers were on some lsd or something designing it
Unfortunately, if your window motors have seized with the windows up, you have no choice but to rip the cardboard from the door trim.
You didn't do the triangle trim?
No it looked fine to me like it was
@@beardedreviews my Firebird needs it. You made it seem pretty easy to get it loose. I was just looking for some insight into getting the trim off and back on. Thanks a TON for the videos. They're super helpful.
You saulte with your right hand, not the left.
Two years ago Bro this was filmed two years ago lol
Very true :)
T top!!!! 😆
Dude, what is up with all the crazy tats???!!!
im just a hooligan i guess lol
@@beardedreviews
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're adding too much weight with that soundproofing krapp
Not everything is a racecar
What’s up with all the danm beards
I have an idea for a future video. Onlyfans account
I see why your channel died...