Windshield install advice.
That's the 67 style , I'm leaving that style for the 68 version with trim peices.
Then how "I" install it is as follows.
Put the gasket on the windshield first. Next, get a length of rope about twice the length of the circumference of the outside of the windshield gasket. You want extra rope to make sure you have plenty to grab hold of.
Next, put the rope in the gasket groove where the pinch weld goes. I start the rope "somewhere" on the bottom side. Get the rope in all the way around in the groove good. Now, both ends of the rope will be stickin out of the bottom if the gasket.
Next, get some Dawn dish washin detergent and lube the rope and the gasket liberally all the way around the rope in the groove.
Then, put the windshield in, bottom edge first with the rope in the INSIDE of the car laid over the dash and get it as much of that bottom pinch weld in the groove with the rope that you can.
Finally, with person number 2 on the outside, pull one end of the rope out to as close to a 90 degree angle to the windshield as possible. This pulls the lip around the pinch weld and installs the gasket with the windshield in it. Pull it slowly, so it doesn't tear the gasket, with person number 2 pushing against the GASKET right where you are pulling the rope out, following you along as you pull the rope out and pull the inside lip over the pinch weld. As mentioned, there's no need to "smack" the gasket as that risks cracking the windshield. Firm steady pressure following you as you pull the rope is all it takes....that and a liberal amount of detergent to assure the lip doesn't tear. Once you pull the rope all the way around, that's it, it's in. You might have to help work the lip over the pinch weld hear and there, but for the most part if you go slow and pull the rope like I described, it'll go right in.
Finally of course is the cleanup. Let it dry really good for several days after you rinse it off and then you can put sealer on it by sticking the tip of the tube under the outside of the gasket all the way around between the gasket and pinch weld. But nine times outta ten if the pinch weld is clean you won't need sealer. I always do it anyway just for good measure.
