Aftermarket windshield rubber, what are my options? Options

[streetrover]

Hi Guys,

Okay, I'm looking to install the windshield in a few weeks. I noticed these two how-to links that both use the 3m window-weld and a prep cleaner/adhesive.

Glass Action

Hart's 73

They also use a rubber replacement for the windshield trim pieces (from 914rubber.com). I like this look, but also seem to recall someone on ebay offering a rubber seal that, at least as I remember it, installed the windshield in a method similar to VW windshields. The glass fit into a groove in the rubber and another groove on the other side fit onto the metal of the windshield frame.

Is my memory failing? Does such a thing exist? Has anyone used this option?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Bob

[Dave_Darling]

... someone on ebay offering a rubber seal that, at least as I remember it, installed the windshield in a method similar to VW windshields. The glass fit into a groove in the rubber and another groove on the other side fit onto the metal of the windshield frame.

Not gonna happen on a 914 windshield. The seal you are describing is shaped like an 'H', where the glass fits into the upper half of the H and a metal flange into the bottom half of the H. The glass and the flange have to more or less be on the same plane, with the opening in the metal just slightly larger than the glass.

The windshield opening in the 914 is smaller than the windshield. The back side of the WS gets glued to the metal frame, and the trim covers up the joint. The WS overlaps the inside of the metal frame.

If you weld, you can think of the first as a butt-weld, and the second as a lap-weld.

--DD