Re: Windshield Installation / I need encouragement (special combo-reply!)

[Jake Kooser <jake_k@bellsouth.net>]

  I know how you must feel, taking your car apart into little bits and
pieces and putting your pride and joy into little ziploc baggies.  I
spent most of the day today doing just that to my '71 Squareback.  The
day went pretty smoothly, until I found the six-inch long rust hole into
the trunk where the charcoal canister used to live after pulling the
front fenders off.  I removed all of the windows, starting with the
passenger door and working my way around the back.  I even got the back
window out without any problem.  The method I used worked fine, just
stick a wide-ish screwdriver under the rubber in a corner, and kind of
press the window out while rolling the seal over the lip.  Full of
confidence, I set my sights on the windshield, the only piece of glass
still in the car (Anyone who has done this before may want to shield
their eyes, the rest of you may want to be seated), and wedgied my
screwdriver into the corner, started rolling the seal, gave it a little
push, and promptly broke the corner out of my previously unblemished
windshield.
   So... anyways, in addition to the front fenders I need, a windshield
is now on the list.  Anyone who knows of a proper windshield
DE-installation procedure may want to make that available, 'cause what I
tried ain't it!  There is no finer stupid feeling than the one that
comes right after the glass cracks...

Jake Kooser
'71 Squareback (yeah man, that's a squareback in them ziploc baggies,
can't you tell?)
'66 Type 1 roadster (even further on the back burner now)