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Hello, I am about to install my windshield after have 3 delivered due to scratches and cracks in the glass.... SO on Moss website the directions state: " Before installation, run a bead of non-hardening windshield sealer in the glass channel of the rubber seal. Install the seal, finisher and clip onto the glass. Insert a length of strong thin cord in the seal channel, with the ends protruding from the lower center (see illustration)." I am about to do my windshield. Does anyone do it this way? Does anyone use the "non-hardening sealer in the gasket? All the videos from Rusty Beauties that I have watched seems to indicate no sealer in the gasket. Also not installing chrome strip until the windshield is in.

Anyone have some experience with this? Thanks
 
i have never used a sealer.
if you get a sealer tube nozzle and cut the end big enough to put the string through, use this to get the pull string in the outer channel of the rubber, overlap end about a foot. get someone to apply a steady preasur on the outside of the screen, then slowly pull the string 90 dgrees to the rubber whist your assitant presses on the glass opposite the string,
Not a bad idea to fit the trims before fitting the screen it is easier to get them in, devil of a job afterwards but you can get a tool to aid fitting them
 
I would not use a sealer. I imagine it would result in a terrible mess - installing the windshield is fiddly at best, and usually takes a few tries to get it right. I can only imagine the swearing associated with excess sealant splattered all over who knows what! (Perhaps one could add sealant post-install with a syringe??)

Separately, instead of rope/string, I used 14-gauge household wire, insulated (taken from a length of Romex cable). It is (1) stiff, meaning you can push it back into place if it slips out too soon, (2) thin and gets in/out of tight spots, (3) the insulation is super slippery, and (4) it is stiff, helping you to position it in place when starting the installation.

I had a selection of plastic trim tools at the ready, which help when the seal is "almost - but not quite" in place. (When the wire failed to do it's job.

...just my experience, obviously not the only one!
 
It's easier than it sounds. By a little, anyway.

I really don't think sealer is necessary. The glass fits into the seal very tightly and I think there is little chance that it will leak.
 
I have done 3 TR4/6 windshields and no sealer used. I did all the chrome finisher last.
One thing a Safelite installer used was a foaming glass cleaner to use as a lubricant for the seal.
Charley
 
Would anyone have a picture for the A-post seal routing? Runs down windshield frame to A-post and makes a turn but not sure inward or outward. Thanks for all the install feedback. Tomorrow is the day for the windshield
 
I’ve installed two windshields on my TR6 and did not use sealer.
The first windshield was “practice”…. I got it about 90% into the frame and I pushed a little too hard. The next sound I heard after the ~crack~ was “oh sh….well you know ;)“
The second windshield went in with no problem.
Good luck with yours.
 
Fifty years of glass/bodywork, has taught me several things. Today there is only one source for the old time
byutal sealer needed to make a rubber style windscreen water tight. You have to buy it on line comes in
a tube like caulk. It is VERY messy, but wipes off with enamel thinner.
When you set the rubber in the car, a thin bead under it. Then slip the glass in with a glass knife. Next pull the lip
back a little and put a fine bead as far in as possible. Using a lock strip tool, instal the faux chrome strip. cleanup
There are alternate methods ,the rope is very popular ,but you cannot get to seal between the body and rubber.
Mad dog
 
slegsonly said:
Would anyone have a picture for the A-post seal routing? Runs down windshield frame to A-post and makes a turn but not sure inward or outward. Thanks for all the install feedback. Tomorrow is the day for the windshield
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Not sure what you mean? Are you asking about the door seal or the windshield seal? In both cases, if memory serves me, they went where it looks like they should go... if that makes sense? (I don't recall doing any head-scratching, which usually means - because I'm not the smartest nor experienced - the routing was self-evident.)
 
Gliderman8 said:
I’ve installed two windshields on my TR6 and did not use sealer.
The first windshield was “practice”…. I got it about 90% into the frame and I pushed a little too hard. The next sound I heard after the ~crack~ was “oh sh….well you know ;)“
The second windshield went in with no problem.
Good luck with yours.
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Thanks, slow and steady
 
I once did a windscreen install at a carshow, for fun. A guy had a tatty Tr4 next to us with a perished WS rubber.
We were in a downtown area and a hardware shop was feet away.We got some clothes line, and popped his old glass out
cutting it out with a box knife . No concerns for sealer so we set the new rubber he had in his boot onto the glass. put in the rope, fitted his moldings and in she went( five minutes) just pulled the rope back through and presto! Good times!
Mad dog
 
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