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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 54 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 54 | I have my new window glass and rubber installed in my 1951 5-window truck. I purchased "chrome" lock bead for the corner windows as well as the back window and I'm trying to get the lock bead installed. I purchased the "lock bead installation tool" but received NO instructions as to how this is supposed to make this job easier! I've searched the forum and have found no assistance there. Can someone please save my sanity and instruct me on how the tool is supposed to be used to install the lock bead????
Any/all help would be greatly appreciated! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 | First soap up the track with some dish soap/water mix.Put the lock bead into the pear shaped lockbead tool and thread your way in the track.If it is soaped up it will move(lock)quickly.It takes a little practice.Some like to pull it, some like to push it.Do what ever locks your bead.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2006 Posts: 679 | My application is a little different, but I think the same strategy applies.
I have only the rubber pinchweld (?) with no chrome trim. I believe the groove is similar.
Last Saturday I installed the whole shooting match. First the gasket, next the back glass, then the pinchweld. I used a plastic tapered knife-like tool that the guys at the local glass shop gave me. It is nylon and is like a cross between the shape of a plastic knife and a carpenter's pencil.
I added dishwashing soap to the water in a spray bottle, then wetted about 6" of both the gasket and the pinchweld. I inserted the tool into the gasket groove and wedged it open. When open, I inserted the pinchweld. Once started, I just kept wetting and sliding the knife into the groove and cramming the pinchweld in place.
Honestly, it was harder to mount the glass than it was to install the pinchweld. I was expecting the opposite after reading the horror stories about how hard it is. My experience was different. I think repeatedly wetting it helped keep things slick.
Hope this applies somehow to your application.
Good luck.
Bill | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | ChevyTruckKy......If you can wait a few hours I'll try and get some pics for you and I'll post a link. I'm going to work shortly,so don't have time right now...... True...the installation tool can be a bit tricky but be patient. This seems to be a constant source of frustration for first timers. I've been installing glass for close on 13 years now,so it's kind of second nature for me! Practise makes perfect! Later...... Jock. 
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 54 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 54 | Jock, Bill and gtow69... thanks so much for your thoughts and recommendations. I was able to get one of the corner lock beads installed last night... truly tested my patience but got it done. Will try and tackle the back window lock bead today and then the other back corner glass.
Jock, pictures would be GREAT!!! Thanks again to all of you for taking the time to assist me with this! | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | Duh, what's a pinchweld?
"A picture is worth a thousand words"
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | Denny knows a pinchweld is the opening where metal edges are spot [pinch] welded to make the mounting flange .... what Bill is refering to as pinchweld is the lock strip that closes/secures the seal like this .... there's a new type of rubber seal now available by the foot from the glass places that's called 'self locking', no seperate lock strip, got some for daBus, works slick Bill | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | ChevyTruckKy.....Sorry, better late than never! I've assumed you have the glass installed...... Here's the pics I promised. Sounds like you've got it 'sussed' anyway. As I said previously....'Practise makes perfect. Good luck with the other two,and remember...Watch your paint, Don't slip! Jock. P.S. red58...The self locking strip has been around a while...It's great if you don't want the chrome look.
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
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