More WINDOW Tech Tips

• 1960-66 Back Window Conversion -- Take out the small and put in a BIG window in your old truck -- Randy "MyBlueChevy's" Osborn has some good pictures and instructions
• Installing rear and front window rubber and stainless steel trim -- Jim "tools94" Slootmaker and wife Johanna replaced the rubber on their 5-window
• String Method to Install Truck Windows -- Another useful tip by Ken "Bartamos" Law
• Solid Side Windows in 1955-1959 (Task Force) Suburban-- converting the solid slide window to one piece glass - great step by step instructions ~ Ken "Bartamos" Law
• Windshield Gasket Replacement for pre-War GM trucks -- What you need and what you do -- by Mike Reese
• Windshield Rubber -- Replacing it ALONE - Sietze Slinkman explains how he did it in his Task Force Stovebolt
• Vent Window Rebuild -- Jay did his '54 and give us his step-by-step instructions -- by Jay "Houston54" Barrington
• Windshield Wipers (Delay) -- All about delay wiper systems and how to retrofit them to your vehicle -- by Mike Rowand
• Windshield Wipers (Slow them down) -- Upgraded to electric wipers? Now you need to keep them on the arm -- by Hugh Spitler
• Windshield Repair '39 - '46 -- How to restore crank-out windshield assemblies -- By Whitney S. Haist
• Windshield Crank Rebuild -- Got a crank-out windshield? Here's where you learn how to rebuild the crank regulator -- by Kip "Kip's41" Bonds
• Window (side) Glass Removal - for Advance Design trucks
• Window (side) Regulator Help -- Hard to roll the windows up or down? Here's an EASY fix -- By Tab

We get this question on a regular basis, so John offered to snap a few photos and scratch of few words to help folks see how smoothly this task can be. If anyone has a video of this operation, it would be great to add to this tip.

The right tool for the job

		The best way I’ve found to install window bead is with one of these bead tools.  They are cheap (under $10) and they work really well. Most after-market parts suppliers carry them.
		All you do is spray the channel with a little soapy water. Then push the front edge of the tool into the slot where the bead is to be applied. The bead in this image is chromed plastic.
		Make sure the little tab on the tool is facing inwards towards the slot for the bead.
		Place the bead through the opening on the tool. Slowly push the tool forward and the tool opens the slot and the tab pushes the bead in all in one operation.  It’s almost effortless.
		If you stop or the tool pops out on you, just push the point of the tool into the slot at the spot where the bead is already seated and start again.
		To make it easier, I tape the bead to the cab in front of where I’m working so the bead lays over the opening it is going into -- it makes it goes easier and quicker on the straight areas.

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"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world." ~ John Muir

"When we tug a single thing on an old truck,
we find it falls off." ~ Bill "Red58" LePage