Top crack repair
 

Wondering if the best fix for these joints is seam sealer

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Bueller.......Bueller........Anybody? trying to do this week and really trying to do it right...lol

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I'm not a bodywork expert, but I think the answer would be that seam sealer would be a temporary fix at best. The top is made of SMC (sheet molded composite, similar to fiberglass) and what you're seeing is a structural defect. Seam sealer isn't meant for structural problems.

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Those are factory seams. What ever they used, is cracking out. The other common place i found for this to happen is in the gutters. I am of no help on the correct fix.

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You might try the paint and bodywork subforum.

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I'm thinking grind the old sealer out and recoat with new seam sealer and re-raptor the top. Definitely not structural just where the top was seamed at the factory, years of on and off probably pushed the 50 year old product to it's max.

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grind and feather out the seam and repair with stranded fiberglass epoxy filler

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Got a heads up from a local guy who recommended PC 11 marine epoxy which can be sanded and painted. I'll let you know how it turned out

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The seams on SMC are structural. It's where two pieces of molded composite were joined together. Look at the curve at the top of the window and you can see a crack around the radius.

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Probably not corrcect to call it not structural. But the "crack" at the window is still just the seam opening.

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I wasn't talking about the seam. It looks like there's a small crack that's around the radius of the window opening. The red lines point to what I'm talking about.

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