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| | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42 | I've read all the posts about installing the glass. I walked away and came back many times. I know the glass is right, because I took it out. All I did is buy new rubber from Steele. It hasn't beat me yet but it might be getting close. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 | Patience,,,an extra set of hands,,and lots of soapy water. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 | Those 55's are a bear, even for the experienced. I suggest using 2 ropes in the gasket. First insert 1/4in rope, then 1/8in rope. Pull the 1/4 rope first to get it started then the 1/8 rope to finish the install. Have someone on the outside slapping the glass with a gloved open hand following the rope as it's pulled.
You can use soapy water, but I use just plain glass cleaner. Easier to clean up after. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 443 | Be sure to take off wedding ring etc before slapping the windshield, even with a glove on. Bare handed you could easily break the glass. Gloved probably not, but why take the chance.
1957 Chevrolet 1/2-ton Stepside LB in the Gallery My Photobucket shots The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) | | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 42 | LMC parts catalog says to put rubber on the cab and then install glass. Is this right? I always thought you put the the rubber on the glass. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 427 | | | |
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