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Hi guys,
I'm in the dismantle process of my 1941 restore and was wondering if the windshield frame is 2 pieces. It appears to be, I just want to make sure before I make a big mistake trying to pry the 2 pieces apart. Thanks.

Found the answer. Yes, it is two pieces. Anyone have any helpful tips on separating the two pieces?

When I did mine recently the screws were rusted solid and just about all of them snapped off which was not a problem as it would allow the V bars to slide out of the frame except for one thing, the bars were rusted to the sheet metal of the frame. Days of soaking with PB blaster did not help. To seperate these I had to apply heat with my acetelene torch using the brazing tip until the sheet metal just glowed red but did not burn though and then pull the old rusted V bars out of the frame. New bars are available so don't worry about them it's the frame that's high $$$ if you damage it. Good luck!

Thanks sleeve. I managed to loosen the V-bars, but one side broke off in the frame. I think I might be able to pull it out of there. Gosh I sure hope so. I'll work on it a bit tomorrow night.

One of mine did too. I ended up heating the frame and driving the bar out through the screw holes with a long skinny drift until it stuck out far enough to grab hold of with vice grips. If that had failed I was going to drill and tap the end of the bar and run a machine screw in and grab hold of that. Lucky for me it didn't come to that!

-M-

I had to soak mine in WD40 for a few days to get the vee bars out
Also ended up drilling out 2 screws. Turned out the frame was so badly rusted there that I ended up buying a new one.

Mine were REALLY stuck to the frames. I took a dremel with cutoff wheel and cut the v-frames in half, then drill and tapped the v-frame for a 10-32 screw. I made a homemade slide hammer, applied heat and penetrating oil. After much penatrating oil and heat treatments and many hits with the slide hammer, all 4 pieces came out. Don't get too rough, be patient, let the heat and oil work. I never put the frame in a vice, only used my hands to hold the frame while hitting with slide hammer. Dave

Thanks Dave! That's exactly how I'm doing it.