64-66 Barracuda rear glass installation questions

Just did mine about a month ago. Here is what we did.

  1. We cleaned both channels on the gasket with a spirit based cleaner.
  2. Then we used a sealer that does not set hard to seat the rubber gasket onto the "fence", making sure the headliner was in place.
  3. Lowered the glass trailing edge first into the gasket using the weight of the glass to partially seat into the gasket.
  4. The next step was to push the glass from the front edge into the rubber, firmly seating the rear and side edges. Watch your fingers here!
  5. The leading edge was seated using a flat plastic blade from the inside to push part of the lip out and over the glass, then from the outside working from the edges into the centre.
  6. Then fitted the locking strip with a locking strip tool.
It is a two person job but it only took about 10 minutes.

I guess there are several different ways to do it but this worked for me, bearing in mind that any damage to the rear glass is catastrophic. A replacement isn't easy to get when there are probably less than 100 64-66 Barracudas in the whole country!