Installing windshield chrome
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
i dont know. i have never installes a front windshield at all in these trucks. i have urethanened in one in my 93. it was way to easy. just get out the caulking gun and go for it. just put the glass inbetween the clips and its glued in.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Bet you started at the bottom when you put it in place, didn't you?
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Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
yeah we rolled it from the bottom to the top . just like your suppose to do all of them. one guy on each side so it didnt fall out of our hands.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Are you sure you started on the top, or was the truck upside down?
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
sport71 wrote:Are you sure you started on the top, or was the truck upside down?
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Wish I'd have thought of that one...
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Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
That's SWEAT from all that HORSEPOWER!! ![Thumbs up :thup:](./images/smilies/icon_thumright.gif)
Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Im sure I started on top, it just depends. All vehicles and applications can be taken at different approaches, its just easier for me to do trucks like mine from the top. You get the top in, with a hook tool you pull the middle of the bottom in. Then just rope it in. Did you use urethane fordman? That old windshield caulk isn't anything compared to urethane. Ive done about 2 of our trucks, but any rope in is mostly the same; you can start from bottom or top. I install windshields professionally. I actually prefer the rope ins because they take about 15minutes. You don't have to take anything off but sometimes windshield wipers.
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But than again I got a suction cup to use, most people don't have those.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
yes it was urethane in a caulk tube. we got it from the parts store. during that one hail storm we lost three windshields.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
How long have you been doing this?JMcTurnan wrote:I install windshields professionally.
Your profile says you're 18 and work at Dairy Queen/High School.
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Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
That's SWEAT from all that HORSEPOWER!! ![Thumbs up :thup:](./images/smilies/icon_thumright.gif)
Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Thats one of my jobs, about 1-2years ive been doing it. I havent updated it, I actually do Florissant Glass, Dairy Queen, and college now. I did it as an off an on job for about 18 months, than about 6 months ago got me ahold of the full job.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
I did it as an off an on job for about 18 months, than about 6 months ago got me ahold of the full job.
HUH????
COLLEGE???![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_confused.gif)
HUH????
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COLLEGE???
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Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
That's SWEAT from all that HORSEPOWER!! ![Thumbs up :thup:](./images/smilies/icon_thumright.gif)
Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Ok well it's my grandfathers business. But when I was in highschool it was hard to have a part time job there because hes open 8-5. But school was 7-3. So I went in when I could, which usually amounted to 1 day a week. Learned how to do windshields, and done many since. But now that hs is over college is easier to work around a work schedule.
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Re: Installing windshield chrome
Sorry to have to ask this, but do they teach PROOFREADING there?
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.--Plato
Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
That's SWEAT from all that HORSEPOWER!! ![Thumbs up :thup:](./images/smilies/icon_thumright.gif)
Why is it that there's seldom time to fix it right the first time, but there's always time to fix it right the second time???
That's not an oil leak
![No No :nono:](./images/smilies/icon_nono.gif)
![Thumbs up :thup:](./images/smilies/icon_thumright.gif)