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I know that this is a little out there but, like many other bolters I have other chevys and I'm trying to replace the door window glass in my '62 Nova. I got the remains of the old glass out and removed the channel and rubber liner out of the door but I'm looking for advice on installing the new glass in the channel. I found no evidence of adhesive in the rubber. Do you pull the rubber off the metal channel, or try to press the glass into the rubber while on the metal part?? My original shop manual tells me all about how to remove and replace the window assy. but not how to put the new glass in it!! Any help would be appreciated very much.
Thanks - Jeff

I took my 38 to the local auto glass shop. You want to make sure there is no glass left sticking to the rubber. It can crack the new glass if there is.

I took the glass to my local glass shop and he put a new piece of rubber on the bottom of the glass an installed it in the metal track for the glass. Worked like a charm and took him all of about 3 minutes.

Thanks 41 Chevy and Tiny. I wish I had done that first.... After taking no time to think, I got some soapy water and lubed it good, put the rubber part on the glass and then tapped the channel on with a rubber mallet...didn't work too bad until I noticed that I put it on the top of the glass!!!!So I swore alot, took it back off, screwing up the rubber in the process, swore some more,had to get help from my amazing wife, called my local auto glass shop who were real nice but had no channel to sell me, and put it back on and installed it. It ain't perfect but will get me through until spring and I can find new rubber for it and do it all over again. The moral of this restoration adventure is after towing a classic car or truck 3500 miles across the country to a place that they are even more rare and therefore even more worthy of our efforts Don't fire up the new string trimmer near old(or new) vehicles!!!
Thanks again for the response
unearned sympathy welcomed
Jeff