Sealing around windshield trim (after paint job) because noob mistake

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Kdiddy

Hi Everyone. I've been reading and learning here a long time. and I want to first thank you all for all of the good information. I am restoring my 1983 Toyota four wheel drive. The bed was rusted out and I bought a fiberglass bed for it and had an epic journey trying to make it somewhat straight and paint it. In the past week I had completed epoxy primer/block/seal/base /clearcoat on the cab. It came out pretty good but because I bumped the wet sealer with the air hose it, repairing it threw off my timing and I ended up clearing and waiting ill the next day to pull tape. There is now a very fine 1/16"line around the windshield trim that did pulled up with the tape and did not seal. Should have pulled the tape immediately I guess. Live and learn. Anyway I want to make sure this area seals and I was considering masking it off and putting a real fine line of seam sealer around it. Before you cringe too much please remember that this is a mountain/hunting rig and doesn't have to look "perfect". But I don't want moisture to cet under the edge of the paint. Thank you for your help and I promise to learn from my mistake :)
 
Hi crash. There is just a tiny bit of epoxy primer showing around the rubber windshield gasket.. For the record I tried to use trim tape and pull it up and re shoot base clear to get it under there as I re-cleared the the whole rig anyway (flow coat after sanding out garage dust, but I was only partially successful in getting a enough under there to seal.
 
You're going to tell me I should have pulled the gasket aren't you......... :-(
 
Also I think you are asking me what is (fully) under the gasket itself which is the original finish.
 
I don't think you have a whole lot to worry about as long as the paint was well sanded right up to the edge of the gasket. It's tough to brush touch areas like that, but that's probably what I would try. What you are experiencing is why most painters and helpers will err on the side of being up on the gasket a little bit with tape instead of being too close to the painted surface. We are talking .010" between success and failure here. Paint on a gasket can be scraped off or otherwise dealt with, but lack of paint on the panel, well, that's a little harder to deal with.
 
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