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I am in the process of having my runningboards restored. The question came up as to whether there was some type of rubber gasket between where the boards bolt to the front fender and rear fender as well as the side to the body. I cannot find in Steele's catalog any evidence of such a gasket nor does Kanter carry any such thing for a '37 115C. Unfortunately, the boards were removed and stripped of rubber some time ago. I do not recall any such gaskets and recall the rubber on the boards to be more a vulcanized process rather than matting. I tend to think the rubber was formed over the edges acting as the gasket preventing metal to metal contact. Can anyone shed any light here? Thanks so much for your help.

Tom

I have a '40 120, not a show car. No one sells running board rubber for this model. I had the boards sprayed with Rhino lining. They look great! As far as gaskets are concerned I used little rubber donuts to fill the space between the boards and the fenders. You can use the gaskets provided for garden hoses for this purpose. These keep water from attacking the fenders.

Thanks John. I am having these done by a guy in Alberta, Canada. He is using a very thin layer of rubber matting and then spraying several coats with a material that looks and feels like rubber and supposedly wears like iron. He will extend the rubber over the 3 sides to act as the gasket...I will post some photos of the process when I get them...

I've seen good results with spray polyurethane, but it won't duplicate pattern that wasn't echoing thhe steel pressing. I don't think anyone sprays rubber. There are rubber kits that are adhered to the steel - some have gone out of production. The rubber is vulcanized but that's not how it was stuck to the steel.