The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Paint and Body Shop Painting. I wanna remove the windows first.

ok ! so I,m fussy !...lol. I looked into the frame of the window itself and noticed there are philip screws that are holding in the window. Ok,...long story short, neighbour says " by geez don,t do that !, ya don,t need to ! " I would like to yank the windows out do any, or all the grinding, primer, paint etc, and THEN re install each window. Is he just lazy ( he won,t be helping ) or should I follow through ? Whats the big deal right ? Couple of screws, some sanding, primer, paint, re install, seal, done right ? More water tight than a dolphins behind she must be.

well there is a bit more to it than a few screws, but you will be happier doin as you desribed remove the regulators and glass, clean everyhing up replace the seals,inspect and replace worn out parts,lube everything.
I dedicated a day to each door rebuild as far as cleaning,painting,replacing the seals and reassembly.
But I am happy with the results!

I agree, take it apart and clean up everything... there's probably some rust under the windshield gasket anyway. Do it right and rest easy.

Thanx Guys ! Ya my gut feeling was right. Now I get to play window man this time...lol. Woohooo! Daytona 2009 here I come !

The only question is how big a hurry are you? If the answer is "not much" then by all means do it! Remember that there will be many decisions like this one as you work your way through the rebuild/restore, where this will only take a few days you will multiply this by all the other total tear-downs and you could be looking at three years, maybe more; I'm living proof of this. Sometimes I wish I had taken a few shortcuts but I know that when it's finished I'll have do regrets, at least not about doing a thorough job.

Agree with the above. Remove everything you can. It makes for a much better job in the end. Part of a quality job is attention to detail.