defender roof to windscreen frame gap

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leeby7

leeby7

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Hi can anyone tell me if this gap is normal? its been filled with white silicone? alot of it aswell.

 
The frame to roof gap doesn't look too bad. It looks as though someone has added silicone to stop water coming in, but by the looks of things the water has been getting in via windscreen seal which is long overdue for the skip....
 
yes thats getting replaced when i respray it in the next few weeks. Is the windscreen seal just a rubber seal put in with string?
 
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Yep. Go careful and its axtually quite easy....although i broke my first screen due to a slight chip in the laminate edge, as the paracord passed the chip it split the screen.

Fitted the new one last sunday no bother.
 
So once I have painted it do I just use silicone again in this gap or is there something better to use? thinking about it does this need doing before or after painting?
 
Can't make out from the photo whether it's there, but you should have a sealing strip between roof and windscreen frame as the one at the bottom between frame and bulkhead. You will still need to finish ends with silicone
 
hi there is a rubber sealing strip on the roof but if your talking about the foam type seal thats on the windscreen to bulkhead then no it hasnt got one on? how are they fitted? does the roof have to be lifted away from the screen frame to fit it?
 
It is the same type of foam seal strip as the one at the bottom between bulkhead and windscreen. Google defender windscreen to roof seal and you will get details. When I bought one from a well known Land Rover spares supplier near Worcester I got the screen/bulkhead seal and cut a few inches it to suit.
You will have to lift roof away from windscreen ti fit it
 
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MTC4994 is a rubber strip, inner seal to roof. MTC6568 is a foam strip as seal at bottom of windscreen which is stuck on top of windscreen frame.
 
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One sorry looking foam seal on the screen

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Rubber seal on the roof.

We still dumdum'd the front gap as theres a gap between the foam seal and the front of the screen/room.
 
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