Pivoting Vent WIndow weatherstripping

[BFeen]

I'm new here and I have a '90 Eliminator and the vent windows have started to rust out at the bottom.  Found a set off a  '88 Cherokee for $60 but wanted replace the rubber weather stripping on them before installing.  I can't seem to find anything online and didn't know if anyone knew where or even if we could get replacement seals for the vent windows.  Thanks for any info you could provide.

[eaglescout526]

I moved the post for ya into the MJ tech section so more eyes can see for those who do have vent windows can chime as to what they have done with theirs. I have fixed windows so I don’t have any ideas. 

[jdog]

As far as weather stripping a lot of it is sold new either team cherokee or eBay or morris

It's the same as a cherokee

 

[Eagle]

It doesn't matter. They leaked from the start, and there is no factory cure.

 

When I bought my original '88 Cherokee new in 1988, the operable vent windows were an extra cost option on the Pioneer. I ordered them. They leaked from Day One. I complained to the dealer, and the dealer turned it over to the factory rep (who, by that time, was from Chrysler). He had good news for me -- there was an official fix.

 

Great! What's the fix?

 

Replace the operable vents with fixed vents.

 

So I'm like ... how is that a "fix"? And then I asked if they were going to refund me the extra I had paid to get operable vents. Oh, no! No refund.

 

So I told him to pound sand. I drove it home, opened the vents, slathered the gaskets up with clear silicone grease (grease, not adhesive), closed and latched the vents ... and that was the end of the problem. But ... if I ever opened one of them, I had to repeat the application of the silicone grease.