Window removal and installation
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== Basic removal techniques == | == Basic removal techniques == | ||
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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. | 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. | 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)'' | 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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| + | Another method for the glue in type windsheilds is to use a piece of piano wire or guitar string and feed it through a hole in the seal. Then use it as a saw to cut through the windshield seal. | ||
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| + | ==Side window== | ||
| + | On some vehicles the side windsheild is bolted or clipped to the track assembly. On other vehicles there are rivets holding it in place. In either case one must either remove bolts or clips or carefully drill out the rivets in order to remove a side window. Then quite often the track assembly has an upper limiter which must be removed to allow removal of the side window | ||
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