USatC
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Can't find anyone to install my front and back glass on my 72 satellite so I am going to do it myself. Any advice for the install process?
71/72 front and back glass installation
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idrivemopar
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I don't know why you cant find anyone to do the windshield, I had local company install my 73 windshield using modern methods rather than the butyl. I did use the butyl on the back glass and did that myself and was easy to do, just make sure it was clean and have a good suction cup. I also installed it by myself, so doing it from inside the car was easier, just had to be careful passing the glass through the back opening, then carful setting it down, because once it sticks, its stuck!
440669superbee
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The rear glass shouldn't be too bad. It is tempered glass so cracking it won't happen unless you drop it or it takes a heavy hit. The windshield is a different story because that is laminated glass. Two thin layers of glass sandwiching a flexible membrane. That being said, it can crack very easy if pressure is applied on a corner or if it comes in contact with one of the metal clips. I haven't done glass work since the 70's but, if it is the rubber gasket type, you install the gasket on the glass and install a cord (plastic coated clothes line) in the gasket. The cord should be installed starting from the top and meeting in the center at the bottom. Now once you have that, you can set it in place and slowly pull the cords across the bottom and up the sides making sure the gasket is pulled over the pinch weld. You have to be very careful when you go around the corners not to put too much pressure on the glass. You kind of need to apply pressure as you go, to seat the glass and gasket onto the pinch weld.
Hope this helps.......
Nacho-RT74
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Original windshield back in the days were also tempered. New replacements are laminated though new safety regulations.
easy to install... required the window ribbon sealer to get the glass glued to the body. Use couple of rubber block spacers to keep the glass in place on bottom.
Once glass is in there, then fill the chanel left between glass/ribbon and body with buthyl window sealer... specially if vinyl top
Urethane can be used too instead the ribbon sealer, but, once again, once urethane dryes, fill the channel with buthyl sealant to save from dust and humidity storaged there. Will save from any posible gap left by the ribbon due the body irregularities too
easy to install... required the window ribbon sealer to get the glass glued to the body. Use couple of rubber block spacers to keep the glass in place on bottom.
Once glass is in there, then fill the chanel left between glass/ribbon and body with buthyl window sealer... specially if vinyl top
Urethane can be used too instead the ribbon sealer, but, once again, once urethane dryes, fill the channel with buthyl sealant to save from dust and humidity storaged there. Will save from any posible gap left by the ribbon due the body irregularities too
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Nacho-RT74
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ribbon sealer works like a double faced tape ( even actually is really like a clay ribbon )
Then buthyl to fill the gap left between ribbon and all the glass opening perimeter
Then buthyl to fill the gap left between ribbon and all the glass opening perimeter
USatC
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Tha
nks. So how do you seat it so it won’t sit in the way of the trim pieces? Is the process the same for the front & back?
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