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Old 11-23-2018, 09:13 AM   #4
kenparker
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Default Re: Need help attaching door glass to bottom metal channel

I just put the glass in the driver door Wednesday. No problem. First make sure your window channel is squeeky clean on the inside - where the glass and cork/rubber go.


Two. Set glass in channel, without sealer, and mark glass with black marker to get channel centered on bottom of glass. remove glass from channel.



Three. Fold cork/rubber/fabric sealer and set into channel about 1/4 of the way all the way across. Do not push it into the bottom of the channel. The glass will push it to the bottom.


Four. smear dish soap on bottom of glass - both sides , then push it between the cork and partially into the channel. Lining channel up with black marks you made on the glasss. It should go about one fourth way to the bottom with just pressure from the heal of your hand.


Five. Set top of glass on edge on wooden tabletop with towel or blanket to protect glass. Then using leather mallet or rubber hammer (I had a rubber mallet) tap channel further onto glass. Working from side to side - little at the time. Do not force it. Careful wiht those hammer strokes.---this is not a piece of Texas drill stem pipe - its glass. You are tapping on the metal channel, NOT on the glass itself.



six. Install glass and chnnel in door and clean glass with Windex. See was not hard.


??? Is yur glass laminated or tempered. Just curious, cause, i used tempered cause it was half the price. Even at $58 I thot tempered glass was high. The glass guy said laminated could cost douboe that. I might need a new glass guy.
The top and sided of the glass were finished (rounded) different from the bottom (not rounded)
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