Sliding window seals?

[Toyovan]

Thanks Jan-Wilem. I have that link to Jenkins rubber from Australia ready to go! Still looks to be $105 Aussie dollars. I’ll give that a try.

Please update us. Pics if possible!

[Sunbeam]

Wow! I just finally got onto this site, last week I cut the whole window out of a cargo van, the sliding track seals have shrunken however I have the whole enchilada and I plan to put it on my bench and work on the track gaskets and figure out how to properly service my wives van sliding windows. I want to try that Jenkins rubber source. Thank you for that info

[Jan-Willem]

See a couple of posts up, by Cali Cruiser. I got some recently, and intend to install them soon (for me soon is in the next two months )

I did not get the Australian windows seals to work for me :(
Cutting the holes in the right places was easy. But I needed to make the release cuts in the corners to make it fit, like the originals. I eventually got the seals in, and with much force, I got both the windows in as well, but with both windows in, they are impossible to slide. The material is just way thicker than the original seal, I think 3 times as thick.
I increased the size of the original seal by boiling it, and soaking it, in some leak-stop. (ok, I let it sit a bit too long, the seal is a bit too long now)
Currently I am in the slow processs of glueing it back in the frame...

[Cali Cruiser]

Be sure to test window sliding operation before installing the window assembly back into the van. You will need to adjust the tension of the screws that hold the center vertical bar in place.

If the vertical center bar (that divides the windows) is screwed down completely, it squeezes the horizontal sections of the frame track together too tightly and the windows will not slide at all. The screws will need to be backed out a few turns to get proper sliding function. If I remember correctly, the screws were only turned-in a couple of times to hold that center vertical bar in place.

If I were to do this project again, I would also place small removable wedges in between the glass corners and the rubber channel at the middle, to ensure the frame doesn't get bowed in when the window assembly is installed. Keeping a proper gap for the glass to slide smoothly in the channel is important.

Also, I used modern-day window urethane for my install instead of the messy butyl.

[Jan-Willem]

I think your window frame must be different to mine. I do not have screws top and bottom, only the one on top. On the bottom mine does not have any screw, or place to put one, just a big hole for that divider to go trough. But mine does have a plastic spacer for the glass in the middle.
Anyway, it is not a height issue, but a width issue. Even if i only put an inch of that seal in the frame, i cannot slide both pieces of glass when I push them in. It is so tight, it actually bulges the frame when i put the glass in that little bit of seal.
it looks well enough out of the frame.

But the channels in my frame are 9mm ( little under 3/8 inch) when i compress the seal to that width: