How to salvage a parts car windshield ????

[ddewhurst]

Sure, just grab the ol owners manual & follow the instructions. Take a piece of piano wire & just saw through the sealing puddy stuff. tried a small cable thinking the uneven circumference would act a little like a saw.

Hellllllllllllp

Their is always a better way. Who would like to divulge their secret ??????

Thanks

David

[joeg]

The better way...the only way--get the pro to do it.

This is about the most miserable job one can imagine and you probably will fail 99% of the time with that urethane cut.

Having watched people do it and talked to people doing it for a living, the best way is that angled knife, sharpened like a razor.

Cheers.

[C. Ludwig]

Leave it to a pro.

We do them at work now and then. The truck usually sits there for at least a week while everyone argues about who is supposed to do it. We've got the knives and they seem to work the best. That's what we always use. I'd say we end up breaking 99.9% of all windshields too.

Watched the pros do my old truck. They actually used a sawzall! Worked...

Chris

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Chris Ludwig
08 ITS RX7 CenDiv

[Tak]

Put the car out in the sun and let it get very hot to soften up the goo. Be patient, try using .020" safety wire. Pull gently. Expect to break the windshield. If you don't break it, you'll be ahead! Have a 5lb sledge, tire iron, baseball bat, big rocks etc handy so that when you do break it, you can go to town!

Tak

personally I use a acoustic guitar string(its serated) with about 80% success, oh and it takes two people with visegrips and you saw the urethane with the string.

[Quickshoe]

We used safety wire wrapped around 3/8" extensions. Use the extensions as handles, sawing motion as we worked around the perimeter. Tough/thick spots called for heating the safety wire with a pencil tip torch...cut through it like butter. Any excuse to intorduce flameage into the process. Only had one experience and it worked.

I'd rather remove windshields than scrape that sound deadening stuff anyday.

[C. Ludwig]

Now sound deadning is easy. Just make sure it's really cold, wack it with a mallet and sweep up the loose chunks. It's a good dead of winter project!

Chris

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Chris Ludwig
08 ITS RX7 CenDiv

[Silkworm]

Tell ya what, next racecar I build, you come out and remove the windshield, and I'll go remove your insulation..

<shudder> I had the damndest time getting it out. Of course, mine was already broken. But baseball bat would have left the interior full of glass! Not a good thing I like the idea on getting the wire hot.

PaulC

[bcarter]

Remembering the old saying "time is money", I go to my windshield guy and get new ones. $200.00 Canadian installed, and it is so, so easy.

[Racescort]

I found out that around where I live (not sure for everyone else) a few of the junkyards around also install used windshields. Im having one of them intsall one for me soon.$125.00 installed. Check it out, it might be an option?

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Doug
ITB Escort
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[ddewhurst]

lets see now, the thoughts were:

99.9 % of the time they break

Time is money

Let the Pro do it

I guess you could say I am 100 %

It sure was fun with the palm of my hand pounding near the crack to see where it would go next. Non-predictable, now it looks like a road map of country roads.

Have Fun

David