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

["T. A. Dapper" <tdapper@value.net>]

I suggest that you use a cotter key tool (looks like an awl with a bent 
tip) to pull the rubber away from the body, both inside and out, before 
trying to push the windshield out.

Tim Dapper


Jake Kooser wrote:
> 
>   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)