How To Windshield Install With Chrome Trim F100 FINAL
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- čas přidán 20. 05. 2019
- How To Windshield Install With Chrome Trim F100 FINAL
Episode 45 Manic Mechanic
This week we Install the windshield into our 1972 F100 project vehicle using parts from Auto Krafters Inc. We show how to insert the chrome into the gasket. We give tips and tricks for installing the glass.
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Jeff Ford Contact:
Jford@autorestomod.com
Parts:
www.autokrafters.com
Windshield Weatherstrip 1967-72 Ford F-100 F-250 F-350 Pickup Truck With Chrome Moulding Grooved Seal: C7TZ-8103110B
Not only would I pay for someone to do it I almost would pay someone to watch. That was toooo much like work!
You did the the chrome moulding right, it's not easy the first time but you have the right idea but installing that windshield the way you did it works but the string method is alot easier. Keep filming love watching your videos.
Use a small string, like a weed eater line. Lay it into the channel then lay your chrome molding on top. Squeeze the molding and chrome together as you pull the line out and it will pull the gasket around the lip of the chrome.
I know most comments on this are several years old. But if you would run a rope inside the moulding cavity on the glass that sets over the pinch weld all the way around with a bit of lube. Tuck under the rain Channel at the top first. Then as you pull the rope, the moulding pulls over the pinchweld. It makes it quite a bit simpler.
It was a lot easier for me to just tuck the windshield under the drip rail, have a friend keep it up and centered while pushing and I used the rope-in tool. This is most ideal with 3 people.
I'm fighting this same window right now.Broke the first one . Round 2 tomorrow. No real easy way to do it. You make it look pretty easy!!
Holy cow! I never want to do that! Unfortunately, I will be needing to do this, but when installing a windshield I use the string trick. It goes much faster and easier. Put a string in the rubber seal and pull it inward causing the rubber gasket to fold out in place around the lip of the car.
I saw another video where they put chrome trim in after the windshield was installed. Seemed like it made installation easier for the windshield. Probably harder for the chrome. Kudos!
I just got done with the glass and trim for my 69 f250. It was by far the most frustrating thing That exists in the universe. I spent the last 6 hours struggling with this piece of crap, I'm covered in glazing compound, my fingers are sore to the bone and I'm done. If the glass broke I would've set fire to my truck and never looked back. I tried it by hand like Jeff but that was a futile attempt. The only way I could get anything to seat properly in the rubber was to push rebar tie wire down into the slit and pull the little flap of rubber over the edge on the trim. Then when I got the glass actually on the truck, one of the trim pieces came out and I struggled to put that back in for the next hour and a half. There must be a better way! There must be, somewhere out there, an old-timey gentleman who worked at the factory who could help us out.
Yea if you'd used. Rope it be in by now.
I could see that lower outside rolling under on camera. I kept screaming at you, but I guess you couldn't here me. Just kidding. I really enjoyed the vid. I learned something. I have a 65 Mustang that needs a new gasket.
Also.. on the f- series, it goes much easier if you put the top in first and hook around to the bottom rather than bottom first..
I recall in the early 80's an article in Hot Rod Magazine on how to black out the chrome trim around windows - but forget how
I'm nervous. Get to do this with my dad next week.. Oh lord... I can't lol. Great video sir
As a glass guy these suck no matter what. Good work
Love all your videos! Appreciate that you do not overly edit the work and that you give a true feel to the work involved. I will be doing this soon in a 76 with trim also. Arm Chairing my thoughts here, could the trim, at least the bottom two pieces be inserted into the rubber gasket slot before the gasket is pressed onto the glass? Then maybe install the trim one at a time in the appropriate slot before you press that portion of gasket on the glass? Again never tried an install yet so sorry if this thought is way off course.
Makes me glad my 77 doesn't have the drip rail or the trim!!
I watched the video and yep. I’m taking it to the local glass place they want 400 plus tax out the door and that no longer seems unreasonable
well done!!
Glass is always a scary tedious process. I did pay to have the one installed in my buddies 67 mustang project I did a few years ago.