Dash Seal Loose

[AXE]

Today when I pulled my window shade from the dash, the foam rubber seal that sits below the dash and seals up the space between the windshield came out. It was stuck to the edge of the shade and it stretched out about 8 inches before I seen it. Kinda went back into the space, but looks to be roated a quarter turn and needs to be pressed in 5mm. Not sure there is a long term reliable fix, but I'm gonna try to straighten it out and tuck it in with a forceps tomorrow.

Once again, I'm left with the feeling these trucks have a lot of cheap materials in them.

 

[8ball_99]

I'd just pop that panel off to put the seal back. Not sure how it came off like that. Maybe the shade was pushed down into it and the heat and pressure caused the glue to come loose. That panel just pops off, but you have to take the A piller plastic off. Couple 10mm bolts hold them on.

 

[AXE]

Is the foam attached to the dash cover or the dash where it meets the windshield? Is that foam sticky on two sides? Seemed like it might have been.

I'm just gonna try and place it for now. I'm sure I'll have to order some new foam, but might just have the dealer do it.

Yeah it's been a tad warm here this summer. 110 consecutive days over 100 degrees, 61 days over 110 degrees, 39 days with overnight low above 90 degrees highest average daily temp of 98.6 degrees.........Al Gore is right..........this shithole will be uninhabitable in 10 years.

 

[scubatech]

Is the foam attached to the dash cover or the dash where it meets the windshield? Is that foam sticky on two sides? Seemed like it might have been.

I'm just gonna try and place it for now. I'm sure I'll have to order some new foam, but might just have the dealer do it.

Yeah it's been a tad warm here this summer. 110 consecutive days over 100 degrees, 61 days over 110 degrees, 39 days with overnight low above 90,v degrees highest average daily temp of 98.6 degrees.........Al Gore is right..........this shithole will be uninhabitable in 10 years.

Wow! That is hot. No monsoon's this summer? Or maybe that just makes it more humid?

 

[AXE]

Wow! That is hot. No monsoon's this summer? Or maybe that just makes it more humid?

It was a below average monsoon season. Not many storms but some rain. I think up north in the mountains they did ok.

It was pretty hot in ND as well. At least it cools off at night there.

 

[AXE]

I tried tucking it in place with a trim tool. I can get it down there a ways but it pops back up some. Foam sticks to trim tool more than the dash. GMs gonna have to fix this garbage, I'm not investing another minute.

 

[8ball_99]

I'm pretty sure the seal is stuck to the dash and that panel just sits on it. Its not sticky on the top. That dash piece isn't stuck down. That dash piece has tabs on the windshield side and clips on the cab side. Basically pop up the clips and pull back on the panel to take it out. Kind of like a battery door on electronics. Hooks in the front and snaps down in the back.

 

[AXE]

I'm pretty sure the seal is stuck to the dash and that panel just sits on it. Its not sticky on the top. That dash piece isn't stuck down. That dash piece has tabs on the windshield side and clips on the cab side. Basically pop up the clips and pull back on the panel to take it out. Kind of like a battery door on electronics. Hooks in the front and snaps down in the back.

I think that's why I can't get it to restick. It's twisted and the sticky side is up and seems to grab my trim tool or the sun screen. Usually once they pull up, the adhesive is shot and probably needs a new piece of foam.

 

[HighTechPauper]

M 21 RST did the exact same thing, but the entire foam piece stuck to the windshield window shade and came completely out. I put it in a clean bag with the intention of trying to re-insert it at some point but never got around to it before trading the truck in. In all the time it was out I couldn't tell what it might do or if it really did anything at all, I never missed it and thought maybe it was just something that was on a piece during assembly that might just be there to protect something during install, so I never worried too much about it. When I got my ZR2 and was doing my first oil change I found a little plastic cap in the frame near where the drain plug is, at first I searched and searched to see where it might be missing from, but in the end I never found anywhere it could have come from or where another one was and one could be missing. I really think now that it is some kind of plug on a suspension piece that caps an end, maybe to keep any debris out, but it got away from the tech during installation and he just never went to find it so I did. I was fairly surprised that it was just laying there, it really could have hopped out onto the road as I was driving, but it never did in that first 1000 miles.

 

[AXE]

Yep, I think that seal might be just keeping a couple surfaces from rubbing together or perhaps air movement from the floor to the windshield. Whatever it does, it isn't very robust.

That cap definitely had a purpose too, but may have just been assembly related and left behind.

I guess if they aren't a critical function it'll never matter.