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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,481 Moderator, Electrical Bay | | Moderator, Electrical Bay Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 4,481 | I used a rubber from The Filling Station and all went very well and easily. Here are some tips: IGNORE ANYTHING YOU SEE ON YOUTUBE. Most of that is pure junk and some of it is dead wrong. Have a helper. Use two pieces of nylon twine...mine was about 2.5mm in diameter but anything close to that will work. Assemble the glass into the rubber and then install the stainless trim pieces in after that. Use Dawn to lubricate the rubber and set the assembly carefully in place so that you catch the bottom edge in first. Then have your helper press where you're working as you pull in on your twine (to pull the lip in over the pinchweld. Follow around each side until you have the lip nicely over the pinchweld fully and then adjust. If you look, you'll find what I did to eliminate any puckered corners and make it look like new. It is posted here on this section. I also posted how I made a ball hook...you just have to search. TechTips are sort of out of date here. This procedure took me about 15 or 20 minutes. Then install the center stainless piece and pull that up tight. And then use the right sealer to seal both the outside of the rubber and where it connects to the glass. You can use 3M 08509 on the outside flap (mask carefully around to make clean-up easier) and 3M 08693 to seal the rubber to the windshield glass. 08509 never hardens and is what a commercial glass company would use. 08693 does harden. Too bad you're so far away. If you were here I'd drive over and help. Good luck.
~ Jon 1952 1/2 ton with 1959 235 | T5 with 3.07 rear end
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