Editing Window removal and installation

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== Tools needed ==
For non-moving windows, and windshields that are sealed in with butyl tape, you will need:
*"Bat wing tool" K-D #2038 moulding removal tool
*Window wire, piano wire, or guitar strings (this is available as a kit with tools)
*A good set of needle nose pliers and side cutters
*Possibly a pneumatic window tool
*Suction cups
*Pipe knife(basically a pipe that is smashed at one end to hold a blades for utility knife)
*liquid glass cleaner
*Extractor(very expensive, but pretty much the one tool for any glass)

== Safety ==


== Basic removal techniques ==
On older cars and even some trucks it's really not hard removing a front or back windshield. Many people suggest using a knife and just cutting the old seal glass is held in with. This runs the risk of the user getting cut when the knife slips.
Say you want to remove the front windshield of your 1950s car. You get inside the vehicle and at the top, take a flat blade screw driver starting in the middle and working towards one side of the car push the old rubber seal over the pinchweld. Once you get to the side of the car, start again at the top in the middle working the rubber over the pinchweld to the opposite side of the car.
After you've worked to both sides of the car, the windshield can then be pushed free of the body. Just don't push TOO hard of you may find the glass laying on the ground in pieces? ''(not good)''
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Now the windshield will be out of the car. You didn't cut your hand with a knife, and this method really doesn't take any longer then using a knife to cut the old seal.

PS. This removal method can also be used to remove a back (rear) windshield.
--[[User:71.74.207.85|71.74.207.85]] 15:06, 18 August 2006 (PDT)

== What to do after removal ==


== Installing the new window ==

== Installing flush mounted glass


== Tips and tricks ==


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