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- From: msl30@ccc.amdahl.com (Michael Lucash)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Anybody know how to remove a windshield?
- Message-ID: <a9RK02ms20VH01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 09:07:55 GMT
- References: <183405@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Reply-To: msl30@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Michael Lucash)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <183405@pyramid.pyramid.com> pshyvers@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Peter Shyvers) writes:
- >In article <Bu0FKI.4wB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> emgg1058@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Gaertner) writes:
- >>
- >>
- >>As the title says, Does anybody know how to remove a windshield?
- >>
- >>Recently while loading some lumber into my car, a board fell and cracked my
- >>windshield. It has a nice spiderweb right in the center, about 9" in diameter.
- >>The repair shop says that if I can provide one, it would only cost ~$55 for
- >>installation. My local junkyard is filled with escorts ( mine is an '84 ) but
- >>I've heard that removing one intact is pretty tricky.
- >>
- >
- >When I replaced the windshield on my wife's old (Mitsubishi) Dodge Colt
- >(maybe a '78?) *removing* the windshield was a bigger pain than installation.
- >I remember sitting in the passenger compartment *kicking* out the windshield...
- >
- When we had to replace the windshield on one of our cars we used a length of
- piano wire and two blocks as handles. We put the wire between the glass and
- window frame and used it like a saw to cut through the glue. It took a while
- and a little messy but we were able to get the window out without breaking it.
-
- It might help if you took off some of the interior trim pieces around the
- windshield so they won't get glue all over them.
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- Hope this helps
- Mike
-