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Guess that Steele Rubber seal just needs to compress a little bit.

My Steele weatherstrip was installed over 15 years ago and still have to slam the doors. Hope yours does better.

I have used a silicone spray on the new rubber, with great success.
Give it a try... After several days the weather strip will develop a new attitude and the doors will close much better.
Great blog Kev!

What type of silicone spray?

I have "Johnsens" multi purpose silicone lubricant.
"Pro-Long" has the product as well.

Got the rest of the perimeter weather stripping installed on all if the doors. The door I did yesterday is finally starting to close a bit easier. So I think the seals are starting to compress. Which is good, because my wife thought I was upset about something with all the door slamming that was happening!

Windshield in the frame. Still need to install the lock strip and the stainless.

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Got the upper and side windshield stainless installed. Pretty easy actually even with no help. Using a piece of 18ga wire, a cotter pin tool, and some undiluted dish soap I was able to feel the wire into the channel for the trim.

Once the wire was in, I used metal rod to center locate the top trim in the mounting hole. This also helped hold the stainless so didnt need a helper. With the wire in the channel it opens in up enough that the stainless can easily be pushed up and into channel as the wire is pulled out.

The process was repeated with the side trim. 20mins total and I had all three pieces installed. Also installed the corner trim and have the bottom trim ready to go.

Still need to install the lock strips and then its onto the back window. I did prep the back window and installed the seal and put the wire in the channel.

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Using the same method as the front window, I put the rear window in. this evening.

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Looking better and better Kev!