Ready to install windshields in my 72 dart. I have the glass, gaskets, and urethane windshield adhesive in a calk gun tube. Any tricks to getting them in? I was told that the front windshield you put the gasket in then the glass and the rear goes in all at once. Any tips or suggestions are helpful.
Ready to install windshields, any suggestions
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rednesss
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I don't know about using urethane, I've been told that this is the stuff to use:
rednesss
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And tape off anything you don't want black goo all over.
Oklacarcollecto
Life is an experiment
I have always put them in with spray silicone and a nylon rope. Never used and goop on a gasket car but always used ne gaskets. Been a while so maybe I am out of date on the way things are done.
Oklacarcollecto
Life is an experiment
66plyValiant
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if your car has a rubber that holds the windshield and rear window in do not use urethane! rope it in
mullinax95
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Have your ever installed a windshield or backglass in a vehicle?
95teetee
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yep-should be dry-glazed (i.e. no sealant).
Then again, they always seem to leak with the old gaskets and end up getting some sealant used on them somewhere...
If you have chrome trim, make sure you use all new clip fasteners. The rubber gasket is designed to go in dry. As stated above, most old car windshields will leak, so use a good quality butyl sealant under the gasket. JMO
blue missile
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Yes to the 3M glazing compound, that is a butyl compound and works very well. It has a good long working time. I put a hole the size of a pin head on the end of the tube to open it and we put a tiny bead inside the window side of the gasket all the way around. We did both front and rear at the same time. We then opened the tube up a little more and did the same thing on the car side of the gasket. WE installed the gasket on the car and then the window in the gasket. We used the plastic bar shaped tools the window guys use. WE then installed the lock strips.
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mullinax95
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I enjoy reading all the different methods of installation.
Oklacarcollecto
Life is an experiment
This is another place where different members do things different ways. What ever works.
mullinax95
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You got that right for sure!
I have heard (no personal experience) that the newer replacement windshields are thinner than the originals. Therefore, when re-using an original 40 some year old molded gasket (which will have taken a set over time), with new replacement glass, they will not clinch the glass as well. So...drip...drip.
I think shady vendors sometimes market the thinner replacements as being "HEMI S/S" lightweight glass. Anything with Hemi in the description automatically increases the price.
66plyValiant
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its easy to break a windshield if you don't know how to do it,
pay the glass guy the $100 and have them both installed, simple then its gurenteed and if it leaks they have to fix it!
pauly v.100
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Don't use the rope-in method, it works for some cars but isn't easy or nessessary on A-bodies.
Get a couple of these install sticks, place the gasket in car first, then place the glass in the lower gasket channel and carefully work the glass into the remainder of the gasket with the sticks. use a little spit if you want to make it a little easier to draw the tools through the gasket/glass.
Use a small bead of windshield sealer on the gasket/pinchweld joint if you must, making sure you only seal the top and sides. leave the bottom alone, if water does get in there it needs a place to get out.
Method is the same for front and back.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windshield-..._Automotive_Tools&hash=item5647e9c22c&vxp=mtr
Get a couple of these install sticks, place the gasket in car first, then place the glass in the lower gasket channel and carefully work the glass into the remainder of the gasket with the sticks. use a little spit if you want to make it a little easier to draw the tools through the gasket/glass.
Use a small bead of windshield sealer on the gasket/pinchweld joint if you must, making sure you only seal the top and sides. leave the bottom alone, if water does get in there it needs a place to get out.
Method is the same for front and back.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windshield-..._Automotive_Tools&hash=item5647e9c22c&vxp=mtr
Purple Haze
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X2 above
The front looks easier to install but the back glass seems to be a tough one. I guess I thought that you had to put the glass in the gasket and then install it together in the rear. Thanks for all the replies and information.
mullinax95
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First off lee does your car have stainless trim around the windshield and backglass?
Is it a self locking rubber that you have another words? I know how to install the glass but need to know what type rubber you have for your car. I believe the 72 darts have stainless trim in which you have to use clips to hold the stainless to the car. If your car has clips then we can go from there.
Is it a self locking rubber that you have another words? I know how to install the glass but need to know what type rubber you have for your car. I believe the 72 darts have stainless trim in which you have to use clips to hold the stainless to the car. If your car has clips then we can go from there.
SpeedracerX
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Im am here to tell you that we had no choice at all but the rope in method for the back windshield of my Dart.. this process mentioned here worked great for the front windshield, but unless theres some trick to it, it will not work for the back (I am only referring to the Dart).. we had to place the rear glass in the rubber, and then suck it all into the window channel with a very thin 'rope'.. it was a royal pain.. and in my case, it leaks.. so.. it will be getting pulled out and I will let the 'pros' deal with it..
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