Front trunk seal rail, is there supposed to be anything other than metal in there? Options

[914 RZ-1]

I removed the front trunk seal to clean, sand and primer the metal. There was a ton of caked dirt and gunk. I got most of it out with a wire brush and a chisel. However, when I went in with my dremel, there appears to be some glue or maybe seam sealer in the channel. The rubber came out easily enough, but it did stick a little in places; is this glued in? I want to make sure before I remove it all that I'm not removing something important.
I didn't take a close-up of the gunk; it's too dark in the garage and it wouldn't really show up anyway, but I did take a picture of the channel I'm talking about.

[Tom_T]

Yes, they're usually glued in, but should come out with an appropriate rubber cement solvent, acetone or blade-type scraper - since it sounds like you plan to go to bare metal then repaint it anyway.

Keep the solvents off of & well away from any adjacent painted surfaces that you don't want damaged.

PS - also clean any rusty areas in the channel, treat with rust converter, then prime with something like Wurth or Eastwood zinc-rich primer, then repaint & allow to cure, before reinstalling the seal with the adhesive.

Good Luck! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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