Installing windshield chrome

[sport71]

You're lucky, I droped out of school at 16. Got married at 19, had our first kid at 20. I feel like 109 years old now, and I've never installed a windshield by myself before.

[JMcTurnan]

Well I didn't really fail, I was being sarcastic. Both my parents dropped out, they refused to let me. Glad I didn't.

[sport71]

I'm glad, because the best inheritance a parent can give a child now a days, is good education.. So take advantage.

[mkpj1]

JM,

Too bad you are way up in MO. I'd get you to do mine. Please explain this rope technique. I've wrenched all my life drag racing and what not but have never ever put in put in a shield. I'm not planing on doing it myself but it would be nice to have some understanding so I can eliminate people who say they know all about it but don't.

[dablack00]

I just installed my front glass two months ago.

1. You put the chrome in the rubber.
2. You put the rubber (with chrome installed) around the glass.
3. You run thin rope (I used weed eater line) in the groove where the windshield opening goes. Tape the ends of the rope to the INSIDE of the windshield.
4. You and your buddy (my wife helped) lift the glass over the hood and bring it down on the windsheild opening.
5. Try to get the bottom rubber on the lower part of the windshield opening when you are lowering it.
6. Lean the glass back toward the truck and see if you have it centered. (lift it back up and try again if it isn't centered)
7. Go in the cab and start slow pulling the thin rope. The point of this is to pop the inside lip of the rubber over the windshield opening.
8. The rope trick only worked about for about half of the windshield. The rest of it I had to use misc tools to push / pull the lip inside the cab.
9. It helps to have someone gently push from the outside while you are trying to get the lip in.

The back glass is much easier. With that said, it took my wife and I about 30 minutes to do the front glass. It took us 20 minutes to do the back glass and that was the first time we had done it. If I had to do the back glass again, I could do it in about 10 minutes. If I had to do the front glass again, it would still probably take about 30 minutes.

Austin

[fordman]

when i di my back glass. i did it by hand just peeling the lip from the outside to the inside. it was pretty easy. i also was using a used window gasket.