67 GTX Windshield Install

[67GTX440]

I have two guys here trying very unsuccessfully to install the windshield in my 67 GTX. They are trying to fit the bottom into the gasket first, and then work the gasket in place around the top corners and top.

The shop manual says to fit the top first and then work from the top corners down the sides and across the bottom? They said they have never done one that way and it will never work.

Will the windshield go in bottom first? Is it most likely the aftermarket windshield and gasket just plain don't fit?

Don
Jacksonville, FL

 

[mmissile]

Whatever works, without wrecking your stuff. If you're not doing it...let the guys who do that work, do it their way. Make sure they seal the **** out of it.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Whatever works, without wrecking your stuff. If you're not doing it...let the guys who do that work, do it their way. Make sure they seal the **** out of ****.

X2 as mmissle states

I've taken many out but installing windshields on older cars can be tough

 

[64SF]

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I have two guys here trying very unsuccessfully to install the windshield in my 67 GTX. They are trying to fit the bottom into the gasket first, and then work the gasket in place around the top corners and top.

The shop manual says to fit the top first and then work from the top corners down the sides and across the bottom? They said they have never done one that way and it will never work.

Will the windshield go in bottom first? Is it most likely the aftermarket windshield and gasket just plain don't fit?

Don
Jacksonville, FL

I installed an aftermarket from the bottom around the sides then the top using the rope installation.

It was a BEAR to do - partially because it was not an OEM and maybe the body may have been "tweaked" as well.

 

[mmissile]

I worked auto-glass for about 2-3 years[decades ago], and still do most of my own. Roping is easiest, for sure. Lots of lube/water-spray and sealer. You learn to go with the path of least resistance. If you saw video of the line-workers installing those things back in the day, you'd crap your pants. Lynch Road tours were fun. Those guys about threw the windshields in.