34 roadster windshield flapping

[dodgeo]

The windshield on my 34 roadster flaps and will not stay in a normal shut
position or open. I have tightened the wing nut at the top until I am afraid
I will strip something, but no luck. Do you think I am missing a special
washer or something else at the top ? ,or is this just a result of repo [?]
parts not doing the job correctly ?
Thanks, Dodge

[mfagan]

Might check to see is cups are seating properly in the stanchions. The repro stachions I had originally had to remachined to fit properly. Also, do you have the rubber gasket along bottom edge?

[DavidG]

Originally there was a spring steel 'wave' washer used with the wing nut.

[glennpm]

I ran into this when assembling my 32 last year. I ended up buying metric spring washers and drilling them out. There are other options too included in the thread.


https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...=spring+washer


and what I did within this same thread:


https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showp...2&postcount=13


Glenn

[DavidG]

A&L Parts Specialties in Canton, CT has excellent reproductions of the washers (they were used on Model As as well) and perhaps Roy Nacewicz does as well (fordbolts.com).

[glennpm]

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David’s contacts would be a much better solution Dodger.

Thanks David

[dodgeo]

Thanks for the info on the spring washer, as mine has just a plain thin flat one
installed. Hopefully that will solve the problem, but I also think that the
combination of original re-chromed stanchions and repo windshield parts
might be a cause of the looseness. Any thoughts about those parts ?

[glennpm]

As long as you can get tight, flat contact between the nuts and stanchions, you will be fine.

[DavidG]

dodgeo,


One other possibility given that you are using reproduction windshield components might be the cones that seat in the windshield posts. Some of our fellow hobbyists have encountered oversize/undersize issues with the reproduction cones.