need help with window glass install - Lateral-g Forums

**camcojb** · #1 03-02-2008, 04:17 PM

How do you guys install the glass into the bottom channel? The factory glass has a rubber piece molded to fit the bottom of the glass to hold the glass in position. Of course, those are now hard as a rock and cannot be removed without destroying them.

Are these available? The local resto shop says nobody makes them, they just use silicone. My thoughts are there's no way to hold the glass in there straight like the factory rubber piece does. Do you use silicone and maybe shim the glass in place until it sets up? Or do you know where to buy those pieces?

I measured the old stuff and it appeared to be 1/16" thick, so I bought a sheet of 1/16" neoprene. But no matter how hard I tap it with a rubber mallet, and every known slippery substance used, it will NOT go all the way down in the channel, comes up about 1/4" short of the factory glass. The new glass is actually a few thou thinner, so that isn't the issue, it appears to be not having the factory rubber pieces, not being able to find them, or not being smarter than I am!!!!!!!

Jody

jack67rs · #2 03-02-2008, 04:49 PM

Had the same problem, my local glass co gave me some material to use on my vent windows. it was about 1/16" thick and i doubled it up on the side window track. Has'nt worked out quite that well so I'll be interested also in what other people have done.

Musclerodz · #3 03-02-2008, 05:00 PM

Metro rubber has several glass setting u channels available. http://metrommp.com/metrocart/PartLi...e=U%2DChannels

or shim the glass and glue in place so you are not waiting.

**camcojb** · #4 03-02-2008, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Musclerodz

Metro rubber has several glass setting u channels available. http://metrommp.com/metrocart/PartLi...e=U%2DChannels

or shim the glass and glue in place so you are not waiting.

thanks Mike. The stuff that I need is different than any I see on that link. The glass is .238" thick, the channel is .350" wide. So the rubber has to be .056" thick or so, and about an inch deep on each side.

Jody

Musclerodz · #5 03-02-2008, 05:44 PM

What about using plain rubber sheet? Should be able to find locally.

**camcojb** · #6 03-02-2008, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Musclerodz

What about using plain rubber sheet? Should be able to find locally.

that's what I did. The closest I could get was 1/16" (.0625") and it needs to be about .056". Should be close enough to work, but it does not.

I just tried to remove the glass from the channel, and broke the new glass. So tomorrow I'll be calling some glass shops to get another passenger side window (factory tint) and I'll bring both to them and let them install them. It's always the stupidest things that hold you up.

Jody

Rick D · #7 03-02-2008, 06:24 PM

Jody,
We have a glass guy that is from back in the 60's and is still doing it today, he just put some new glass in an elky we did and he said that with new glass the stuff that GM and others doesn't work very well. He used windsheld urethane, put's it in the track than put's the window up but put's cardborad at the top to space it down. the only problem with this is that once you glue it this way, if the window brakes you will need new tracks. Hope this helps. By the way car looks awsome

J2SpeedandCustom · #8 03-02-2008, 07:15 PM

Jody our glass guy here urethane's them in as well. Is the chevelle glass the same as the impala?

**camcojb** · #9 03-02-2008, 07:17 PM

well, I'm going to check the local glass guys and see if they have some rubber sheet or similar that's just a bit thinner. Hopefully as I don't want to urethane it if I can avoid it. The thin rubber sheet worked for 40+ years on this car!

Jody

ProdigyCustoms · #10 03-02-2008, 07:45 PM

Another vote for glueing them in. If they would have had urethane in 1964, they would have glued them in. Clean the channel real well (I am sure you did), load the channel with urethane, press the glass into the channel and duck tape the channel to the glass until it sets. Try to catch the urethane at 70% hard with a razor to clean up the excess. Done!