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Originally Posted by paulk68
Thanks Wayne .... never been this far with body work, I think I have the hang of it now!
Thanks! That's a good question, summary: the back glass is the only one that survived tear down. The OEM glass is thicker by 0.015, the AMD glass is shorter by 3/16, width is same ... BUT the curvature doesn't quite match up (left to right or top to bottom), AMD GLASS IS FLATTER... let me show you (GM glass is on top).
AMD glass!
GM glass.
That's the outside edge measurement!
This is the middle of the lower glass!
Clamped the bottom edge to see the difference in the top!
And there you have it ...
My opinion ... fits the opening ok, wished it were closer to GM specs! No one will be able to see the differences on the car. I don't have the front to have a metric against, it is 0.250 thick and seems to follow the roof line and the upper dash pretty close .... anyone else used AMD glass?
Is there a glass that matches GM OEM glass?
Thanks for asking ... hope this helps someone else too!
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Thank you so much that is great info and even better pictures. Man I love watching this car car along!!![/QUOTE]
You are welcome! I am glad to give back a little .... with the info I've learned here on Lat-G I'm going to suceed!
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Originally Posted by XLexusTech
Nice work so far! question, what did you use to strip the Car with?
Chemical blasting DA?
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I stripped most of the car with a orange fiber disc from HF on my DeWalt drill (I'm on my SECOND drill now) ...slow going fer sure but I didn't want to introduce a substance into the metal that wasn't there before, so it's just time consuming
I did do the door jambs, upper dash, and sills w CitrusStrip and a wire brush (kinda messy) and then followed it up w the fiber disc for some bite before etching primer.
Hope that helps ....