Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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Ok I have a 1971 Charger parts car with a decent original windshield in it. Now I've removed windshield's before in my salvage days but I didn't do much care because I had a yard full of others to grab if I broke one. How can I get this out 100% without breaking it. Any suggestions?
Also the windshield has a wiper mark in it, is there anything I can do to remove it?
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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Also the windshield has a wiper mark in it, is there anything I can do to remove it?
Can you feel the wiper mark using your finger nail ??? If so it's toast...Wiper haze can be removed but anything you can "feel" in the glass won't polish out without distorting the glass... Check it out carefully so you're not waisting your time..
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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I have broke too many using the tool and sawing with wire. If you lift at all while sawing, you are stressing the glass and it may crack. Call me crazy but I like to leave the butyl cool, in my mind it seems brittle and does not adhere as well. Once it is warm and sticky it seems to reseal and not want to let the glass go. maybe I got it too hot and just wasn't careful enough sawing. My method takes forever but I have successfully got them out. I first just take a utility knife and cut the butyl around the outside edge of the glass, then using a very narrow and sharpened screwdriver, I scrape all I can out of the channel. I then use a tool that is about 18 inches long and holds a utility knife blade and go inside the car and just start cutting the butyl. The long knife won't work everywhere so I also use a regular utility knife. It takes a long time and that butyl if tough stuff. Eventually you can start putting a little pressure on the glass to see where you need to cut more. As others have mentioned not sure it was worth the effort. Also this was on 68 B bodies so the angles from the inside using the long knife may not work. I think what ever method you choose and none are fool proof. Patience is the key
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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12/27/13 03:51 PM
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If the windshield has a rubber gasket around it, can't you just cut the old rubber gasket out from the outer half of the windshield and then pop the windshield out of the inside half of the gasket?
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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If the windshield has a rubber gasket around it, can't you just cut the old rubber gasket out from the outer half of the windshield and then pop the windshield out of the inside half of the gasket?
The short answer is yes......His particular car has the butyl sealer.
If your car has the rubber gasket just cut it out. But again, go slow as they become somewhat firmly set in the rubber gasket too. Slow and easy !
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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I enjoy these posts when they come up. I started at a auto glass shop when I was 19 ( 58 now ) in 1975...got into sales when I was 25 and now manage a RV glass warehouse in Florida. So while everything I say here is just my opinion, I do have experience in this..
There is NO guarantee on not breaking used glass when taking it out. When cutting glass you score it first with a cutter, than run it. EVERY rock chip in a used WS is technically a score, so just slightly working it will RUN the score..
Secondly if you have ever installed a new WS in a car it is so perfectly clear and spotless I just can't understand why anyone would put a scratched, nicked, sand pitted WS into a car.. MOST WS are still made and available for our cars and they are VERY reasonable, if not cheap, except in VERY RARE cases...
That being said, use of the piano wire is the safest way to cut out a used GLUE IN ( called a "butyl set" on this thread) WS
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Re: Removal of a orginal windshield from parts car.
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12/31/13 05:34 PM
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I enjoy these posts when they come up. I started at a auto glass shop when I was 19 ( 58 now ) in 1975...got into sales when I was 25 and now manage a RV glass warehouse in Florida. So while everything I say here is just my opinion, I do have experience in this..
There is NO guarantee on not breaking used glass when taking it out. When cutting glass you score it first with a cutter, than run it. EVERY rock chip in a used WS is technically a score, so just slightly working it will RUN the score..
Secondly if you have ever installed a new WS in a car it is so perfectly clear and spotless I just can't understand why anyone would put a scratched, nicked, sand pitted WS into a car.. MOST WS are still made and available for our cars and they are VERY reasonable, if not cheap, except in VERY RARE cases...
That being said, use of the piano wire is the safest way to cut out a used GLUE IN ( called a "butyl set" on this thread) WS
I believe there are many different types of piano wire made of different materials. The wire I had in my hands many years ago was not at all like the braided BRASS wire that comes in the windshield removal kit and I doubt that it would function the same.
What are your thoughts there?
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