After an hour and a half of trying to get the cab windlace on my '50 pickup, I finally gave up. I usually will not admit defeat with anything, but this did it.
I have the kind of windlace retainer that doesn't use adhesive- it's just a "u" shaped groove.
The groove is clean (it was media blasted) and painted (very little paint in the groove). It only had two crimps in it, which I straightened out.
It is installing at about one inch per twenty minutes... I have tried pure dish soap, very soapy water, installing dry.... but it's simply not going in next to the dash, even though I trimmed it at he dash edge.
I'm sure they didn't spend this much time at the factory.. I have nylon window installing tools that I have been using, along with a couple of screwdrivers. The only thing that seems to work is to apply very soapy water on it, and apply a sizable amount of force against the top of the windlace as I pry one tiny piece of the rubble into the metal groove at a time. Worked fine until I got up next to the dash, and then I cannot get any pressure behind the windlace in that area.
Any tips or tricks will be greatly appreciated!
