'67 Barracuda Windshield Full Install Request for Help

[Mopar Virgin]

Doing a first time windshield install and looking for best practices regarding the sequence of steps and any tips.

@Oldmanmopar and @RustyRatRod made comments in a previous reply related to my prior post inquiring about the placement of the dash bolts (bottom or top) where they indicated windshield removal and installation are relatively simple.

We pulled the new gasket and windshield out tonight, played around with it a bit and not clear if we should attached the gasket to the windshield and then attempt to install to the frame, or gasket to the frame first, then work the windshield in.

Haven't explored the trim yet, so end-to-end steps and tricks are much appreciated !!!

 

[Oldmanmopar]

Gasket goes on the car then the window goes in the gasket. Set it in the bottom and work from the corners up on each side, Then across the top. Dawn dish washing liquid will be your friend.

You will never get it in by putting the Gasket on the windshield. That's how you put the 1950's windshields in, I did plenty of them with a thin rope.

They make a tool too work the gasket around the glass. I use a paint stick beveled with the corners rounded. I have the tool but never can seem to find it when I need it. Paint sticks are in the cabinet by the dozens and always easy to find.. Remember the Dawn. Mix it with water and use a spray bottle. To much will not hurt anything. Sometimes the gasket at the top will fall down. Two people are a blessing.

There are there are small square holes on the corners at the bottom. make sure they are open and don't get sealer in them . They are the drains to the cowl. If they are plugged and the usually are the windshield will leak. The lower channel needs to drain so it doesn't flow over

First picture shows it open and the arrow shows the path of the water if its plugged. Second and third picture show it plugged from the factory with seam sealer when the cowl was installed during the body assembly. many of these car leaked from new and the reason so many have floor rot. Good luck. .

 

[Mopar Virgin]

Gasket goes on the car then the window goes in the gasket. Set it in the bottom and work from the corners up on each side, Then across the top. Dawn dish washing liquid will be your friend.

You will never get it in by putting the Gasket on the windshield. That's how you put the 1950's windshields in, I did plenty of them with a thin rope.

They make a tool too work the gasket around the glass. I use a paint stick beveled with the corners rounded. I have the tool but never can seem to find it when I need it. Paint sticks are in the cabinet by the dozens and always easy to find.. Remember the Dawn. Mix it with water and use a spray bottle. To much will not hurt anything. Sometimes the gasket at the top will fall down. Two people are a blessing.

There are there are small square holes on the corners at the bottom. make sure they are open and don't get sealer in them . They are the drains to the cowl. If they are plugged and the usually are the windshield will leak. The lower channel needs to drain so it doesn't flow over

First picture shows it open and the arrow shows the path of the water if its plugged. Second and third picture show it plugged from the factory with seam sealer when the cowl was installed during the body assembly. many of these car leaked from new and the reason so many have floor rot. Good luck. .

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Thank you SOOO MUCH for the details and inside. Quick quesiton: I s something in the 4th picture I should relooking at?

The shop that has done the build was shocked at the method, given they'v never built one of these before and explained that it is generally much more difficult to do the work. Took the car for its first-ever maiden drive this afternoon without the windshield -- a total rush after almost 4 years getting this project completed. I'll be posting an update on the build for everyone to see in the coming weeks, after getting back down from PacNW to our home in Tucson, AZ. Build will no be finished until spring when we return, but a lot has transpired since the first posting and others have asked for an update.

 

[Oldmanmopar]

The holes where the tabs are bent up in the 4th picture is where the gasket locks in. You will not be able to get the gasket correctly over those locks if its on the windshield.