I'm working on getting Mike's '70 on the road in time for Red Rock Classic. It started right up today after sitting for 2 years and it's all ready for the side-shifter tranny and exhaust swap.
Unfortunately, the windshield has a crack in it and it needs to be replaced. It's not worth investing in a new windshield given the condition of the rest of the car and Mike's expectation that it will get parked again after RRC. We've got a perfectly good windshield in Mike's wrecked '73 so my question is - how do you remove a windshield so that you won't break it? I'll pay a windshiled shop to install it in the '70, but I figured I'd see if I could get it out of the '73 myself.
So other than "very carefully", what do you actually do to get a windshield out of a 914 without breaking it?
Ernie,
Call the windshield company you are going to pay to install it.
It is worth the extra change to have them remove the old one.
It should not be a big upcharge.
Otherwise, be very careful
One of these would help
I have yet to see a windshield, of any car, be removed without it breaking.
Be the job done by pros with tools, or me without, the job always ends in tears. Sure, I've heard rumors of it happening. Some of my friends have even said they have done it. I kinda think of a successful windshield pull kinda like bigfoot - lots of people have said they know of someone that has done it, lots of shaky camera phone pic, but nothing that car really prove that it was real.
Zach
I just removed one successfully. Used the technique in the book. Take a small wire, I used a small guitar string. Poke one end of this through the seal, and then gently saw it back and forth around the window. At the clips for the trim, make sure the wire goes betweent he clip and the glass. This worked OK on mine. It had the really sticky adhesive, I assume butyl. It was also about 100 degrees outside, so maybe that helped. Good luck. JoeO.
i broke 2 windshields using that fancy tool. both times trying to get around one of the lower corners. you need to remove both of the A pillar interior pieces and the lower dash to windshield seal. start in one of the corners and be very careful if the seal is in good shape. the tool will tear the hell out of it. after the outside trim is removed, let the car sit in the sun for awhile to soften the butyl.
k
After watching the glass shop pro replace the windshield in my 73 I would say don't even try it yourself or you will walk away bummed out.
I cracked mine within seconds of trying to remove it. It happened when I was poking a hole through the butyl for my wire. I used a little punch and the larger end stressed the glass when I stuck it through. The crack was only a few inches long, but long enough for me to trash it. That sucked. The rest was easy with the wire. Just be careful poking that hole. I think a small drill bit or something completely flat would be the way to go.
Here's a post I wrote a while back:
Thanks for all the input. I'll let you know what I decide and how it comes out. I'd forgotten that I may have a windshield available that's already out of a car. The "spare cars" are all wrapped in tarps so it takes some work to look inside them and see what I've got. If I've still got that windshield and it's in good enough condition, then I'll use it.
I was removing the trim on my front windshield and all was good till the last foot. Then the sound. I cracked the windshield. I also have 2 small strange horizontal matching cracks on the left and right side or the rear window near the base 3 inches up and 3 inches from the edges. (Very strange)
The question is should I call a window company in to come and putt the front and rear glass out or should I do it myself. I do not want to get cut and I do not want to make a mess. I do not mind spending some reasonable money.
Next question is replacement glass. Where to get it?
Thanks,
Bob
I have cut out several windshields and reused them also. Big trick is to go SLOW ! I have had really good luck using an old guitar string as a saw to saw through the "glue". If it is the butyl, I have even had decent luck using an old thin blade putty knife heated a little with a propane torch. It can be done, it just takes patience!
Piano or guitar wire, push it thru, wrap ends around wooden dowel....saw away. I've broken two out of 10.
OK, I will do that but where will I get a new front windshield in the Los Angeles area and what do they cost. What to do for the rear? Do you remove all the crap in the area and do you renew the clips up front. I see new ones on EBay back east. Are they around in town or are they hard to come by in 2008.
Bob
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