What's The Trick to Removing Door Weather Stripping Without Breaking The Clips?

[Satellite72]

I'm wanting to remove the weather striping from the door of my 72 to re-use it after it's blasted and primed, but a couple of the clips are wanting to break. Anyone got any tips or specialty tool recommendations to remove these without them snapping?

 

[moparbud66]

Go inside the door and squeeze the tab on the clip with needlenose pliers until it releases. You should be able to reach most of them.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Sometimes they are so brittle they will break if you look at them wrong.

 

[Donny]

Invent a time machine, go back to when it was brand new, park it in a climate controlled garage, never put water on it, they'll come off really easily. Good thing is they're just clips, cheap, and available!

 

[69redrunner]

Invent a time machine, go back to when it was brand new, park it in a climate controlled garage, never put water on it, they'll come off really easily. Good thing is they're just clips, cheap, and available!

Go back just a couple more years and pick up a few HEMI Roadrunners and Superbirds to stash in that climate controlled garage...flash forward to today...sell the Hemi cars and corner the market on trim clips!

 

[tpodwdog]

you guys might think im bulls*(%%ing you.....but i have a time machine in the garage......bad thing is....i cant bring anything back with me. it has to do with the time / space continuum....and what -not.....you understand....RIGHT ?

 

[Satellite72]

Go inside the door and squeeze the tab on the clip with needlenose pliers until it releases. You should be able to reach most of them.

Thanks! I don't know why I hadn't thought of that yet myself. And if they break, no big loss...